The Forge Clinic
Location : Richmond, TW9
Address : 37 Red Lion St,Richmond, TW9 1RJ
Contact : Call 0845 680 0615 to make an appointment with the practice. Let us know if you need an evening or weekend appointment. Calls may be monitored or recorded.
Description : The Forge Clinic is Richmond's leading private musculoskeletal care practice. Our experienced practitioners are available 6 days a week including evening appointments. All Forge Clinic practitioners (in particular the Physiotherapists and Osteopaths) are recognised by the leading private medical insurers. Highly trained and innovative, our practitioners provide a comprehensive range of preventative and treatment services with consistent clinical protocols designed to achieve the best service standards. In addition, we can offer personalised exercise and rehabilitation programmes, sports injury management, kinetic control and core stability training and acupuncture. Moreover, the clinic hosts special classes or programmes which can include back care, gait and biomechanical analysis, and ergonomic and work place assessments. On site Ultrasound Imaging is also available to help confirm and grade your injury
Specialities : Spinal: slipped disc, back pain, sciatica, whiplash, trapped nerves. Cranial & Paediatric Osteopathy. Sports injuries and Sports Medicine. Joint problems: arthritis, traumatic injury, frozen shoulder; Soft tissue injuries: muscle, ligaments, tendons, bruising
Directions to The Forge Clinic
Osteopaths at The Forge Clinic are happy to treat patients with any condition listed above.
Learning Disorders
Learning disorders are similar to the issues surrounding delayed development in that they are often misdiagnosed as a child being less able than others. In fact the problems the child is having with learning may have a very simple physical explanation which can be treated successfully and with fairly rapid impromement. The cause of the syndrome may be congenital, but in many cases the cause may simply be a physical neurological issue which will benefit from cranial osteopathy. Gentle treatment to unblock a neural pathway may yield substantial benefit - although clearly not in all cases. The typical course of treatment would be 6 to 8 sessions.
Groin injury
Groin injuries are typically caused by a strain to the adductor muscles of the upper thigh. A tear to the muscle is most often the result of an abrupt stop or change of direction whilst running fully stretched out. Hence, the injury is common in sports such as football, rubgy and hockey. Once the torn the muscle tissue will swell and be sore to the touch. These are particularly nasty injuries because they take a long time to heal. The traditional approach to treatment - resting up, application of ice to reduce swelling, compression of the muscle with an elastic bandage and elevation - are hard to continue for long enough to have an effect. As a result patients frequently believe they are cured too quickly and aggravate the initial injury with another muscle tear becasue the first is not yet full-healed. Osteopaths recommend lots of stretching rehabilitative exercises to avoid this common problem.
