Our Approach
A Different Approach to your recovery and on-going health in Exeter, Truro and across Devon and Cornwall
Successful treatment requires routine check-ups, with ongoing visits for adjustments, alignments and other treatments, right?
Wrong… Here at Transform Health it works differently. It’s nothing personal, but we don’t want to see you on a regular basis!
Traditional treatment, with its emphasis on your symptoms, encourages a dependency on treatment. This costs a lot of money and can lead to a decline in quality of life over time.
We practise Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT), based on up-to-date scientific research on what causes our pain. That way we can quickly change the factors causing the problem. The evidence shows the holistic approach of CFT is significantly more effective than traditional care.
This is the modern approach to musculoskeletal physiotherapy, targeting the particular problems of each individual, resulting in:
- Faster pain reduction
- Return to normal life more quickly
- Less treatment
- Lower costs
- Longer-lasting outcomes
What can you expect from a treatment session with us?
We provide clinics in Exeter, Truro and across Devon and Cornwall. You are unique and so are you problems, so during your session we take the time to listen and understand your problems in a way that you are unlikely to have experienced before. We assess all the causes of your pain and provide you with a detailed treatment plan.
We take the time to build a detailed picture of your situation by:
- Understanding your story
We take the time to talk about the specifics of your pain. During this process we learn what’s causing your problem and how to change it.
Once we have determined whether your pain has been caused by injury, illness or something else, we then look at factors that may be contributing to this or preventing your recovery. Barriers to recovery can include recent stressful events and situations, work problems, family issues, patterns of physical movement and physical habits, information from medical consultations and mental state. You are likely to be unaware of some of these factors.
- Making sense of your pain
Pain is the result of our nervous system reacting to a perceived threat (such as injury or illness). Our body can then alter its ways of moving to protect against this. Sometimes this can actually prolong the problem – and the longer you are in pain, the worse this can become.
Understanding in simple terms what is feeding into your pain is the first step to creating a plan to manage this and head towards recovery.
- Observing how you move and hold your body
When we are in pain, we often adopt different patterns of movement to compensate for the ‘weak’ area or to protect this. We can also be afraid that we are going to cause harm if we move in a certain way.
We assess your posture and movements and provide guidance on simple changes, giving you the confidence you need to listen to your body and how to be more aware of this in your everyday life. We also practice alternative ways of doing things so you can experience the benefit immediately.
- Creating a plan
By the end of our session, we will have identified the root causes of your pain, the reasons this is being maintained and potential barriers to recovery. We will also discuss how thought patterns are linked to our physical responses, with practical tips for overcoming this.
We then create a structured plan to help you progress back towards your normal life in the shortest possible time.
- Working in partnership with you
Unlike traditional treatments, this is not a passive process. Following up-to-date scientific evidence, we work with you to give you the tools you need to move forwards with your recovery and become your own physio.
There are no quick fixes, although changes can result in rapid improvement in both pain symptoms and abilities.
Our aim is to help you deal with your pain in a proactive and comprehensive way, so that you can get back to living a full and active life as soon as possible and not rely on us.
Truly effective private physio in Exeter, Devon & Cornwall
We follow the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s recommendations on face-to-face and virtual assessments. Unlike traditional physio, CFT can be practised successfully both in person and remotely, so we offer sessions at our Exeter and Truro studios as well as online consultations for those in Devon, Cornwall or beyond.
Take a look at the services we offer or contact us if you are looking for private physio in Exeter, Truro or across Devon or Cornwall and would like to find out more.