of Remedial Masseurs and Manipulative Therapists
The LCSP was originally founded in 1919 by a group of practitioners with the aim of promoting professional status and services of themselves and fellow practitioners, making it the oldest-established organisation of private practitioners of remedial massage and manipulative therapy in the U.K.
The organisation acquired incorporated status in 2001 and functions now with the full title - 'LCSP Register of Remedial Masseurs & Manipulative Therapists'.
The aims and objectives of the Register remain the same to be that of maintaining the very highest standard of service and respect that has been achieved over a period of more than 85 years.
The role of our members continues to change both quantitatively and qualitatively. Longevity has improved as a result of modern medical science and better standards of living. A natural consequence of this is an increase in the incidence of degenerative diseases such as osteo-arthritis and other disorders of the arthritic type.
Enhanced and more readily available leisure activities coupled with enforced leisure caused by commercial and industrial development or economic factors have given a greater incidence of sports-related injuries.
The LCSP Register's aim is to continue to meet the demand of ailing members of the public, particularly in the sphere of musculo-skeletal disorders and disease, by means of advanced and proven remedial massage and manipulative methods. That aim encompasses the requirements of the 'ideal therapeutic system' as enunciated in a House of Lords debate some years ago by Lord Colwyn and carried forward by The Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Health working towards the Integration of Complementary and Alternative Healthcare with Conventional Medicine:
- Treatment should be effective.
- There should be very few, if any, side effects.
- The patient's well-being should be enhanced.
- The quality of life should be ensured.
- Treatment should be reasonably inexpensive.
- Treatment should be readily available.
- The patient should have the condition explained to them, and the methods being used to assuage it.
