Rehabilitation after spinal cord injury is a long project rather than a course of treatment, and much of the most useful work happens years after the specialist centre has discharged you.
We see adults with complete and incomplete injuries, and the work depends entirely on the level and completeness of the injury and on what you want to be able to do. Commonly it involves maintaining and building strength in what you have, working on transfers so they stay safe and repeatable, looking after posture and the shoulders that are now doing a great deal more than shoulders were designed for, and managing stiffness and spasticity.
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Long term maintenance is the point
The pattern we see most often is somebody who did well through their initial rehabilitation, has been managing independently for years, and has gradually lost ground without noticing. Shoulders that hurt, transfers that have become harder, a wheelchair posture that has slipped. None of that is inevitable and most of it responds to being addressed properly.
Where physiotherapy fits alongside your specialist centre
If you are under a spinal injuries centre, we are a supplement rather than a substitute, and we will write to them with your permission so nobody is working against anybody else. We are useful for the regular, local work that a centre several hours away cannot provide.
Home visits
For many people this is the practical option, and it has a real advantage. We see your actual chair, your actual bathroom and your actual transfers rather than the clinic versions of them. A home visit is £95 and clinic appointments are £82.
If you are not sure whether we can help with your particular injury, ring reception on 01428 642577 and we will tell you honestly before you book.
