Christine's Practice has been established in Ealing and Hanwell since 1991.

She has been looking after patients of all ages, often treating several generations of the same family and an extended network of their friends, neighbours and work colleagues and is often recommended in social media such as Northfields Friends and Hanwell Friends

The majority of patients over the past 25 years have come via personal recommendation from people who have been helped by treatment they have received here.

Based in West London, the Practice is conveniently located at the meeting point of Hanwell (W7), Ealing (W13) and Brentford (TW8) and treats patients of all ages and from all walks of life.

The Practice is only 4 minutes walk from Boston Manor Tube Station (Piccadilly Line).

If you are travelling by car you will be able to park in Cawdor Crescent.

(Please see: LOCATION OF THE PRACTICE AND PARKING

Every patient at The Lister Practice is special and considered as an individual.
Care is taken to find out why a particular set of symptoms has developed. The approach to osteopathic care of patients combines a great deal of listening, alongside good clinical diagnosis, careful treatment and advice to support your recovery back to better health.

If treatment does not appear to be helping a patient, Christine always endeavours to refer the patient onto someone who can, whether it is a guided referral back to your G.P. or to the right person for Pilates exercise and rehabilitation, a suitable Yoga teacher or other complimentary practitioner or specialist Consultant.

Osteopaths are trained in conventional allopathic medicine to make a clear clinical assessment of our patients and an accurate diagnosis. Our philosophy differs from allopathic medicine in that we embrace the concept of optimal health as our focus in treating and working with our patients.The difference in philosophy could be explained thus:

Whereas allopathic (conventional) medicine seeks to treat a disease state with the aim of eradicating or suppressing symptoms, the osteopathic approach is to treat the patient.
In treating 'the patient' rather than 'the disease', we seek to find the potential each individual has for health.

For example, an older patient may present with a degenerative condition affecting the spine and being partly responsible for painful symptoms. The Osteopathic approach is aimed at improving the function of the patient's body and to find out about the many factors in that person's life that could be maintaining and/or aggravating their symptoms.

Treatment alone, does get some people better but for many patients the treatment we give them is just a part of finding their 'potential for health'. It is the time we spend talking and finding out about them, that gives us the information we need, to be able to offer the best possible advice alongside the osteopathic treatment given.
We cannot reverse the ageing process but we can help to realise the potential for good function that our patient has.

In this respect we give advice on injury management, lifestyle, posture, therapeutic exercise, ergonomics and nutrition, relaxation and breathing techniques.

Some of our patients come to see us for a few visits, or a course of four or more treatments and find that all their symptoms have gone.

For other patients where there is a more long-term problem (regardless of age), the approach we offer involves a lot more focus on changes in lifestyle and advice. This is sometimes very basic – for example how to manoeuvre and sit without continually aggravating an injury of the lower back.

Advice on footwear and orthotics can make a huge difference to some people's lives and the levels of symptoms they experience.

There are so many factors that can influence musculoskeletal symptoms
positively or negatively and our job as Osteopaths is to identify those factors and share that insight with our patients so that they are in the best possible position to help themselves sustain an optimal recovery.