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The House of Positive Health
 If you can’t find what you need through traditional medicine alone, Byron Bay’s Holdsworth House Medical Practice might have just what you’re looking for.
The health practitioners at Holdsworth House do more than treat patients – they bring positivity to the community, according to Dr Dick Quan.
“We think outside the square”, said Dr Quan, originally of Sydney. “We aim to uplift people and add value to the community”
He said, ‘upping’ the positive and ‘downing’ the negative was a priority of Holdsworth House.
The practice is different from others in that it combines “alternative” methods with traditional western medicine in an attempt to empower the patient to take control of their health.
The Byron Bay practice houses two specialist doctors as well as a group of various other health therapists; offering Bowen therapy, shiatsu, naturopathy, live blood analysis, acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, physiotherapy and kinesiology. It deals with general health, women’s and men’s health, sexual health and travel medicine.
Dr Quan said Byron Bay’s Holdsworth House, based on the Sydney practice, was formed after he traveled to the town in 2003 to give a talk to the Northern Rivers AIDS Council of NSW.
“At the talk I saw that about one third of people were actually my former patients from Sydney” he said.
“I think they moved to the Northern Rivers for the lifestyle; there’s something very nurturing about the area.
“But they’d had trouble accessing care and I wanted to give them a facility that they’d be comfortable in.”
Dr Quan said he also wanted to re-engage patients who had “fallen out of the loop”.
“I wanted to make them feel that there’s a place they can come to” he said.
“It’s really good for some things, but I recognize that here are also some things that western medicine is not so good at.
“What we try to do with our diverse range of therapies is service everybody’s needs.”
See Also:
HHMP Byron Bay Doctors
Allied (Complementary) Health Services in Byron Bay
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