Rochester Lodge Osteopathic & Chiropractic Clinic Weston-super-Mare.

Osteopathy Acupuncture Chiropractic

Holistic Massage, Reflexology, Aromatherapy



Complementary Therapies available at Rochester Lodge Consulting include:
  • Holistic Massage and Therapeutic Body Work
  • Reflexology and Facial Acupressure
  • Aromatherapy
  • Nutritional advice and support
  • Naturopathic approaches to integrated healthcare

For more information please contact Tess on 01934 629116

Please visit the websites below for more information on Reflexology, Holistic Massage and Health and Beauty Therapy. Members of these organisations are trained to practitioner level standards.




The Massage Training Institute http://www.massagetraining.co.uk/


Association of Reflexologists http://www.aor.org.uk/




British Association of Health and Beauty Therapists http://www.babtac.com/index.php?pageid=1

Tess is fully qualified and insured with the Association of Reflexologists, Babtac (British Association of Beauty Therapists and MTI (Massage Training Institue).

As part of her continuing professional development, Tess is also a third year student on the part-time BSc (Hons) Complementary Therapies at the School of Health Sciences, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and is currently studying Clinical Aromatherapy. Students have membership of IFPA (International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists) http://www.ifparoma.org/. Tess previously qualified in Aromatherapy Massage as part of a two year full-time course in Health and Beauty Therapy at Weston College.

Evidence-based information on Complementary Therapies

Cancer Care

If you are suffering from cancer and need professional advice on complementary cancer care, please click the link to the Penny Brohn Cancer Care Information Page where you will find envidence based information on complementary therapies in a pdf format available to download and print.  http://www.pennybrohncancercare.org/page3.asp

Quote from the House of Lords Report Select Committee on Science and Technology, Sixth Report.

Professor Edward Ernst, who holds a Chair in CAM at Exeter University, provided the following definition: "Complementary medicine is diagnosis, treatment and/or prevention which complements mainstream medicine by contributing to a common whole, by satisfying a demand not met by orthodoxy or by diversifying the conceptual frameworks of medicine".

See the Princes Foundation for Integrated Health for more information about research and efficacy of complementary therapies:

http://www.fih.org.uk/information_library/complementary_healthcare_a_guide/guide_to_the_main.html

For more information on Clinical Complementary Therapies please go to Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice by Elsevier Science

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/704176/description#description