The RealHealth Institute
The RealHealth Institute is an independent healthcare company that offers expert advice and treatment for back pain and other pain problems. We mostly treat musculoskeletal pain (bone, joint and muscle), but other conditions (such as headache, or pelvic pain) usually respond equally well.
The Institute is staffed by a team of experts in pain and its management, and delivers its treatment from a purpose designed centres in London, Coventry and Nijmegen in Holland. We also have assessment units in Oxford and Nottingham. Further units across Europe are planned.
We see people who have pain that has not got better with simple treatments both early in the course of the problem (a few weeks), and late when it has become chronic. We offer detailed assessment and advice about the type of therapy most likely to get them back to normal and a range of treatments delivered from our centre.
Our treatments are based on three principles:
- They have been proven to help (research evidence of effectiveness)
- They focus on rehabilitation (getting back to normal function, e.g. return to work)
- They are delivered by a multidisciplinary team (doctors, psychologists, physiotherapists, nurses, occupational therapists)
Treatment at The RealHealth Institute is different from most single practitioner delivered therapy. We pride ourselves in a holistic approach based on the reality of back pain: that there is no simple cure, but with the right kind of treatment most people can lead normal lives with low pain levels. Our programmes have been shown to be as effective as surgery, and more effective than most injections and manual therapies.
In addition to offering assessments to patients coming to us as individuals we also offer a range of services to Health Providers including Primary Care Trusts, Occupational Health Departments, Case Management Companies, Return to Work agencies and Insurers. These include triage and assessment services, condition management programmes and return to work programmes.
