The Bampton Clinic

The Bampton Clinic has been treating patients for over thirty years. Originally an osteopathic practice, we now offer Acupuncture, Therapeutic Massage and Hot Stone Massage. Our therapists aim to improve painful, stressful conditions including sciatica, trapped nerves, headaches, migraine, joint pain and pain referred from other areas of the body.

Osteopathy started in the United States in the early nineteenth century when Andrew Taylor Still developed a method of treating and maintaining health in an era before modern drug and surgical medicine. Osteopathy is now a well-established and fully regulated profession; training involves a fulltime four-year degree course.

Traditional acupuncture is a branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine - a healthcare system that has been practised for thousands of years in China and the Far East. It has been developed, tested, researched and refined over centuries to give us a complex and detailed understanding of the body's energetic balance.

Massage is one of the oldest, simplest forms of therapy. It is a system of stroking, pressing and kneading different areas of the body to relieve pain, relax, stimulate and tone. It is an intuitive collaboration between art and science evolved from our own natural instinct to rub a site of pain.

We can trace the history of massage through Ancient China, Egypt and India; the wisdom from these cultural traditions is reflected in their respective development of this therapeutic form.Western massage was first found in Socratic Greece. Much later it was developed by the 19th-century Swedish doctor, poet and educator, Per Henrik Ling.

Heat absorbing stones have been used for pain relief around the world for over 5,000 years. Commonly the stones are composed of basalt and have been smoothed by river water. Basalt stones are good at retaining heat and the rounded different sizes of stone are useful for placing on different parts of the body.