COVID-19 Protective Measures

Updated June 6th 2022.

At this time Align Body Clinic is 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 are aware of our current policies.

• You cannot attend the clinic if you have ANY cold or flu-like symptoms (EVEN IF IT IS CONFIRMED NOT TO BE COVID).  IF YOU ATTEND WITH ANY OF THESE SYMPTOMS YOU WILL BE REFUSED ENTRY TO THE CLINIC.
• Please do not attend the clinic if a close contact or family member is exhibiting COVID-like symptoms, or currently has COVID-19.
• The use of face masks is still advised but is no longer a requirement to attend appointments.  Our osteopaths will still be wearing face masks at all times.
• Patients are required to attend alone unless arranged in advance to reduce the number of people in the clinic at any one time.  In the case of patients under 16 years old one parent from the same household is welcome to attend.
• All of our practitioners use full PPE and are fully vaccinated.

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 or anyone in your household had any symptoms including fever, dry cough/sore throat, tiredness/weakness, new headaches, runny nose, or loss of taste/smell in the last 10 days, or tested positive for COVID-19?
• 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?
• 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?

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.
• 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 10 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.

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.