Fury over healing clinics charging up to £280 to help Long Covid sufferers trends now
Brits with Long Covid are being charged up £280 for 'counselling' sessions which promise to 'remove' their symptoms, MailOnline can reveal.
The In the Clear clinics, which offer an alternative therapy called the Boulderstone Technique, operate out of Brighton, Tunbridge Wells, Earl's Court and Birchwood.
The 'Boulderstone Technique' — invented by a math teacher-cum-alternative healer — claims to draw on 'ancient knowledge' to unblock 'inner tension' which stops the flow of the body's energy.
Apart from Long Covid, the clinics also claim to be able to beat allergies.
They do this by holding the customers head as they recline on a treatment couch. Then the customer repeatedly touches a glass vial containing the allergen until they become 'at peace' with it.
The In The Clear Clinics, which offer an alternative therapy called the Boulderstone Technique which they claim can help treat Britons with Long Covid
A poster at the In the Clear clinic at Brighton even said common Long Covid symptoms like fatigue, loss of taste and smell, and brain fog could be 'removed' through the technique
Experts and MPs slammed the clinic, accusing those behind it of using the 'language of charlatans' and of taking advantage of people whose lives had been derailed by Long Covid.
Long Covid refers to symptoms caused by the virus that persist long after the initial illness has cleared.
Disputed estimates suggest it affects about two million people in the UK.
This includes about 600,000 Brits who have had Long Covid symptoms for more than two years, according to Government figures.
While the condition is still not well understood, commonly reported symptoms include suffering breathlessness, fatigue, muscle aches and brain fog.
There is no known cure for Long Covid and while the NHS does list several ways to alleviate the dozen or so symptoms attributed to the condition, the Boulderstone Technique is not among them.
On the clinic's Long Covid section online, it claims that, through the Boulderstone Technique, 'we teach the body to overcome the legacy of Covid and other lingering illnesses, restoring vitality and energy in one to four, 30-minute, sessions'.
And a poster put in the clinic's Brighton location even promises to remove Long Covid symptoms like fatigue, loss of taste and smell and brain
