COVID-19 Protective Measures

Updated January 5th 2021

At this time Align Body Clinic is open and operating under protective measures to help stop the spread of COVID-19, if you are thinking of attending the clinic please read the points outlined below to ensure that you protect yourself and others.

The practitioners at Align Body Clinic are taking all the necessary precautions (including the use of personal protective equipment) to help reduce the risk of the spread of COVID-19, however, the nature of a face to face appointment and ‘hands-on’ manual therapy means that social distancing cannot effectively be maintained for the duration of your appointment.  If you wish to attend the clinic you should first consider whether or not you feel that your symptoms would necessitate a visit to our premises.

To ensure that attending the clinic will not be placing an undue risk upon you, your family, or your practitioner, we will contact you around 48hrs before your appointment to run through a checklist of questions. If we feel that you may be in a risk category that outweighs your treatment at the clinic then we will ask you to reschedule.  We will be asking the following questions;

• Have you had any symptoms including fever, dry cough, tiredness, upset stomach, generalised ‘aches and pains’, or loss of taste/smell in the last 14 days, or tested positive for COVID-19
• Has anyone you live with, or have had close contact with had any symptoms such as fever, dry cough, tiredness, loss of taste/smell, or tested positive for COVID-19?
• Have you returned from traveling abroad (to any country) in the last 14 days?
• Have you been contacted by the government’s track and trace system alerting you to the fact you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, or been instructed to self-isolate?
• If you have children, are any of your children currently at home after being told to self-isolate due to an outbreak at their school?
• Are you considered a person who is at high risk from COVID-19?  Or do you live with, or care for a person who may be classified as high risk (including but not limited to, someone over 80, a person who is immunocompromised or takes immunosuppressants, severely diabetic, someone with a serious heart condition).
• Do you understand that even though we are taking all necessary precautions a visit to the clinic is not 100% risk-free from COVID-19?
• PLEASE NOTE ALL PATIENTS MUST WEAR A WELL FITTING FACE COVERING TO ENTER THE CLINIC.

See here for a list of conditions that would make a person be considered high risk

We have also made some changes to how the clinic operates;

• All of our practitioners will be using personal protective equipment including face masks, gloves, aprons, and wipe clean surfacing on the treatment table.
• We require that all patients wear a face covering (cloth masks or homemade coverings are fine) when attending the clinic, this is to protect you, your practitioner, and other people using the clinic.
• All patients must wash their hands on arrival at the clinic, you may wish to wear gloves once you have done this but they must be fresh pair of gloves that have not been worn outside of the clinic.
•  All appointments are spaced 15 minutes apart to ensure we can fully ventilate the treatment rooms after each patient, disinfect the surfaces in the clinic, change our PPE, and ensure that patients do not encounter each other at the entrance or exit to the clinic.
• The waiting room is closed until further notice to avoid people congregating in the practice, please try to arrive as close to your appointment time as possible.
• To further reduce common contact points in the clinic we are trialing using online payments for all patient bookings.  This will mean that if you book online then you will need to pay by credit/debit card at the time of booking.  If you wish to pay by cash, cheque or card when you attend your appointment you can do so by booking through our reception service by calling 01225 571084.
• All patients are to attend alone to further reduce the amount of contact between people in the clinic.  In the case of patients under 16 years old one parent from the same household is welcome to attend.

If you wish to discuss any of the measures outlined above, please get in contact and we will happily answer any questions you may have.

We hope that these precautions do not have to last for too long and we appreciate your understanding at this time.