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Welcome to Alva House Osteopathic Clinic
My name is Matthew Peters. I qualified from the European School of Osteopathy in 1990. I gained experience treating in private practices throughout Britain and France. I established three practices in Kent but eventually focussed on the Alva House clinic from where I practise exclusively and consistently since 1993.
I was inspired to become an Osteopath by my Grandfather, Frank Martin Peters who himself qualified at the age of 65. He had been an innovative electronic engineer and rose to be a director of a number of companies including GEC. Frank was also the youngest ever fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and was a founder member of the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers On his retirement Frank chose to study Osteopathy at the Croydon School of Osteopathy
I was a child when I was first exposed to the miracles Frank performed. He practiced from a clinic within his home in Sidcup where I regularly observed patients passing to his treatment room, hunched and shuffling in pain, only to emerge walking freely and expressing gratitude and disbelief in equal measure. By the time I was twelve I had decided that this was what I wanted to do. My Grandfather would give me anatomical charts and drawings to copy and memorise, he would then test my knowledge at our next meeting.
Frank would allow me to observe his treatment sessions adorned in my own clinic coat, where he would explain to me what he saw and how to treat the condition. "The secret is in the pelvis, it is the sacro iliac joint that allows the body to resolve all complaints. It is the primary and essential skill of all manipulative therapies to successfully adjust these joints." A mantra espoused by John Wernhem, the recently deceased centenarian Osteopath who was last living link the father of Osteopathic technique, John Martin Littlejohn.
When I was thirteen my Grandfather invited me to the seminars and AGM of the Institution of which he was principal, the Croydon School of Osteopathy. By the age of fourteen he had taught me to adjust verterbral joints and more importantly the sacro iliac joint. In the days before formal recognition or regulation of the Osteopathic practice he alowed me to treat patients with their permission and his supervision. I cannot begin to tell you the thrill of my first adjustment and the subsequent instant relief of pain felt by the patient.
To this day I still find the same intense satisfaction and fulfillment at relieving the extreme and long term suffering of a patient in an instant by the application of skilfull adjustments.
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