About the Business

Users of Rolls Mill Health Centre often comment on the relaxing atmosphere. All 3 treatment rooms have wooden panelled ceilings, 2 with skylights, which can be very therapeutic on their own! We aim to provide a comprehensive range of therapeutic techniques to help you stay well or bring balance and harmony back to your life.

Get yourself back on track - we have the tools to help or you can gift a treatment using our gift vouchers. The Centre has free parking available on site together with disabled access and facilities plus a comfortable waiting room with hot or cold refreshments for clients, waiting family or lifts!

Business Services

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is much more than "massage with a nice smell"! The originator of aromatherapy, a French chemist called Gattefossé, used the aroma of essential oils in a medicinal way without using massage. However, nowadays aromatherapy often uses massage in conjunction with the healing properties of the oil to bring about stimulation of the body's own natural healing mechanisms. This relaxing treatment is especially useful for lymphatic drainage and for de-stressing.

What does it involve?

Aromatherapy is a massage technique using essential oils. It is a modern version of an ancient healing art aimed to restore balance between body and mind. In an Aromatherapy treatment essential oils are applied to the skin and worked into the body using sweeping motions that focus on the nervous system and the channels of energy that oriental practitioners call the meridians.

What does aromatherapy do?

The massage loosens tight muscles and blocked tissues, improving the blood supply to, and drainage of lymph (with accumulated toxins) from the area worked on. As the skin responds to the massage the nerve endings communicate with the internal organs and systems of the body.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture

Acupuncture provides a complementary approach to conventional medicine with the advantages of treatment that are free of side effects. The British Medical Association recognises Acupuncture to be useful for migraines and headaches, nausea and vomiting, back pain and dental pain.

The World health Orginasition cites forty conditions as treatable with Acupuncture. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture can be used, not only, to treat pains and specific maladies, but also, as a preventative measure and as an aid to maintain general health.

What does Acupunture involve?

Very basically, acupuncture is the insertion of very fine needles into specific points on the surface of the body. It can be used in conjunction with electrical stimulation, or heat (produced by burning herbs, primarily mugwort, over the body or stuck on the ends of the needles) in order to influence the physiological functioning of the body.

The earliest record of Acupuncture comes from the writings of Shen Nung in the Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine) written around 4700 years ago. This is reckoned to be the oldest medical textbook in the world and it is said to be taken from even earlier theories. As a point of interest, Shen Nung wrote about the heart, circulation and pulses over 4000 years before any concept about them was held in Europe.

Location & Hours

111 Rolls Mill Bridge

Sturminster Newton, DT10 2HP
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