Physiotherapy Service

Physiotherapy and Eating Disorder

Introduction

The International Eating Disorders Centre has been established in Aylesbury Buckinghamshire since 1996 and utilises the skills of a comprehensive range of mental health professionals to provide intensive multi-disciplinary, 120 day, time limited inpatient programmes. The Centre also offers a complete package of care from pre-admission assessment and inpatient care to post-discharge follow up, day care, and outpatient support. An outpatient treatment programme for suitable patients is run by the Consultant Psychologist.

Treatment consists of a core programme individually tailored to specific needs. This is particularly relevant, and links with the facilities of the Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital situated a few minutes away, enabling the Centre to enjoy the facilities of large physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and hydrotherapy departments as well as providing vital medical input and medical overview when required.

Built on many years experience, the Centre is recognised as being in the forefront of treatment of eating disorders. It has individual rooms and facilities for nine residents and is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). It is run as a comfortable and homely non-institutional facility.

CAUSES OF EATING DISORDER

Causes of Eating Disorders There are many different ways that can cause eating disorders. The media isn't the only thing to blame for eating disorders. Things like physical, biological and social life can all contribute to developing an eating disorder. Therefore we cannot just focus on one of the areas and say that that caused the problem.

Some possible major causes of eating disorders are, low self-esteem, poor body image (which means that they don't see themselves as an average or skinny size), and also life changing events can also cause eating disorders. When a person has low self-esteem and stressed out most of the time, they tend to lose their appetite or think that they have no time to eat. This causes them to become skinny and tired most a lot. Poor body image usually occurs in women, where they think they are never too thin. People that think that will starve themselves or even intentionally throw up after a meal by sticking their fingers down their throat.

Another cause is genetic. This doesn't mean that all children with mothers who suffer from an eating disorder will have anorexia or bulimia. It just means that the child will have a higher risk of getting the eating disorder.

The type of social life can be a factor of eating disorders. Friends or others may criticize the person by calling them "too fat" or anything about their weight. This might make them think that they are overweight and start losing weight on purpose. Also, when he/she looks at magazines and sees an ideal picture of the size that they want to be, they may think that they are to big and purposely lose a lot of weight.

Major causes of eating disorders include big changes in life, growing up with it, or pure pressure and magazine pictures. A person may have all the different causes or they could have just one, and get ...