Ascot Medical Centre
Heatherwood Hospital
London Road,
Ascot Berkshire, SL5 8AA
Telephone:
01344 877772
01344 638593
What Are Complementary Therapies
- Complementary Therapists believe it is impossible to predict the functioning of a complex human system and bring about its healing by studying and addressing a single part.
This is why we embrace a ‘whole person’ approach to health and healing, focussing on treating the person, not the symptom. Central to this philosophy is our acceptance and understanding of the body’s innate healing ability.
Thus, when the body is given the right conditions, our life energy – also known as 'chi', 'qi' or 'prana' – can flow freely, which in turn helps to create good health.
There are many ways in which therapists can help a client to switch on the body’s healing ability. No one therapy is necessarily better than any other. Choosing a particular modality or therapy is therefore personal choice, based upon the presenting symptoms, personal recommendation, previous experience or simply intuition!
What all therapists have in common, however, is an understanding that every person is an individual and needs to be treated as such, and also that the body is constantly changing, adapting and renewing itself.
For this reason there will never be one single answer, solution or 'cure', but recommendations based on assessment and understanding of the person's situation at that point in time.
Treatment will therefore evolve and change over time as the body changes and 'heals'.
