The Westoe Practice

read moreThe Westoe Practice was founded in 1995 by Podiatrist and integrated therapist Dean Glozier. Dean is reputed for his unique approach to optimum health and wellbeing, and has undergone extensive training in many disciplines. His vision is to change the way people view health and provide integrated health services which complement the conventional medical route. The practice follows the principles of Integrated Medicine, coupling the latest scientific advances with the most profound insights of ancient healing systems, giving you the best ways to preserve health, increase longevity and speed recovery from illness.

read moreThe Westoe Practice is a multidisciplinary centre for Health and Wellbeing, providing an array of professional and complementary therapies. The practice has been established for over 25 years, opened in 1995 by Dean Glozier, with the vision of creating a team of the North East's top health professionals who could see the benefits of working together as a team. We offer a fully integrated and holistic approach to healing and the attainment of optimum health. Our aim is to assist you with your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.

read moreThis 30 minute session is ideal for those working at home who have limited time to get some get some pain therapy in their lunch break, or for professional and intermediate athletes and runners with a busy lifestyle who just need a quick release from current tensions and pain. The treatment is purely percussive as you would imagine, and uses a massage gun to offer what's known as percussive or vibration therapy. This type of massage provides rapid bursts of pressure into the body's muscle tissue (hence the rippling effect of massage guns) as its head oscillates back and forth and can be great for pain and tension relief.

read moreThe Westoe Practice is one of only a handful of clinics in the UK to use a 3d optical laser scanner to capture an exact model of your feet and their many contours. This enables carbon fibre Orthotics, (precisely customised insoles), to be manufactured with CAD CAM technology. The realtime interactive foot image displays dimensions and rotating 3D views and is transmitted to the lab for the manufacture of accurate, reliable and repeatable orthotics. Custom-made foot orthotics are devices worn in your shoes that provide correction and assistance to your feet, helping them to perform in a more efficient manner.

read moreCancellation policy: In order to keep our current reasonable rates, it is necessary to keep a well-managed appointment system. All appointments now require a deposit made payable at the time of booking. THIS IS NON-REFUNDABLE. If you can not make your allocated appointment, a minimum of 24 hours' notice is required for your appointment to be cancelled and your deposit transferred. Less than 24 hours' notice will result in your deposit being lost.

read moreAt the Westoe Practice in South Shields we recommend Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as a powerful and invaluable tool for sustained relief from psychological and physical problems as well as assisting with eliminating the root cause of negative emotions. Our trained therapists use EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to dramatically relieve emotional disturbances along with many physical symptoms. It often works in minutes, its results are usually long lasting, and side effects are almost always positive.

read moreEnergy Healing / Reiki is based on the premise that we are not simply physical beings, but also have an energy field and energy channels that run through our body, which if interrupted or blocked, can manifest as physical and emotional problems - often in the form of illness. Healing can remove these blockages enabling the individual to feel a sense of harmony and balance. At the Westoe Practice, we use Energy Healing as a holistic therapy that treats the 'person' rather than the symptoms. It aims to release the mental, emotional or spiritual blocks in order for the person to experience health, happiness and wellbeing at the highest possible level.

read moreCorrective exercise provides a means of improving posture, alignment, strength, flexibility and as a result freeing the body from injury and pain. At the Westoe Practice, an Exercise Coaching session involves an in depth one to one consultation and body analysis to determine which areas of the body require assistance. You will work on strengthening your core muscles which are imperative before going further with the exercise programme. The exercise sessions at the Westoe Practice will provide you with a thorough understanding of the exercises most suited to you, regaining postural alignment and strengthening the core.