What form does the treatment take ?
Homeopathic remedies act to stimulate the body‘s own natural healing abilities. Remedies are usually given in the form of pills or liquid and contain only a very minute amount of active ingredient which has been specially prepared. The remedies are not tested on animals but on healthy human volunteers.
If the Radiotherapy is delivered by a machine, then the patient will normally be given repeated treatments over a brief period. Although treatment timing varies depending on the type of Cancer, its location, size, and the dose chosen by the doctors, it is not unusual to be given treatments every day for a few weeks. If the therapy involves inserting a radioactive implant near a Tumour, then a brief hospital stay is normally needed. What are the side-effects? Although the treatment itself is painless at the time, the culmulative effect of many sessions does produce side effects. The radiation can produce a sunburn-like effect on the skin as it passes through. The extent of this depends on the number and intensity of treatments. There can be hair loss in the area being treated – which is usually temporary. The treatment can also leave the patient feeling fatigued and generally lethargic. Are there any long-term health risks? Ionizing radiation produces changes within the genetic structur
Everything the clinic does is very much hands on. It’s all about manual therapy. There’s no machinery involved and they just use exercise therapy and acupuncture. All the treatment is on a one- to-one basis. Whether the patient is an accountant, solicitor or bricklayer, they get exactly the same service as the professional footballers are provided with. Who provides the treatment and what is their medical background? There is the head physiotherapist Neil McDiarmid, as well Steve Brannigan, Dan Taylor and Chris Brookes. This is the same medical team that looks after the football club. Neil has been qualified since 1986 and has been in football for 13 years. He worked in various sports injury clinics prior to that. Steve Brannigan has been qualified for six years and has worked for the last four years at Birmingham City under Neil’s tutelage. Dan Taylor has been at Birmingham City for four months, but previously worked with the Academy for two years in a part time capacity. Chris Brooke
I always aim to improve both the symptoms AND the underlying cause of your problem. This will involve the treatment of the local area (for example to reduce the swelling or inflammation caused by a sports injury, or arthritis), plus the energy field related to that area in order to achieve a harmony for longer term improvement in your health.
Stages and targets Individual therapy involves one-to-one weekly psychotherapy sessions with a DBT therapist. The treatment is organised into four stages, with distinct targets for each stage. This provides structured and meaningful goals for therapy and ensures that it is not just addressing the crisis of the moment at each session. The overall goal of stage 1 is for clients to move from not being able to control their behaviour to gaining control over their actions. This stage has three main treatment targets: • to keep the client alive and safe • to reduce behaviours that interfere with therapy • to improve quality of life. The first target focuses on reducing and eliminating suicidal and self-harming behaviours. The second target addresses issues that might come in the way of clients getting treatment (e.g. missing sessions, issues between clients and therapists, etc.) The third addresses anything that interferes with the client’s quality of life (e.g. other mental health problems,
