What We Can Do For You
Initial Consultation
Assessments can be conducted either in the comfort of your home or at our specialised neurological rehabilitation gym, depending on your preferences and needs. An initial assessment is carried out to assess the individual’s physical function and gather a detailed medical history. During this visit, we evaluate your current abilities, discuss your rehabilitation goals, and develop a tailored treatment plan. The findings from the assessment are carefully reviewed, and the aims of treatment are outlined to ensure they align with your personal objectives. The initial assessment typically takes approximately one hour, providing a comprehensive understanding of your needs and setting the foundation for your rehabilitation journey.
Treatment
Treatment takes place in the client's home or a mutually agreed location. There is great benefit to having treatment at home as it allows to make sessions relevant to individuals' needs and daily life. Treatment can also be carried out in an outdoor location, in gyms or swimming pools. Treatment is tailored to the individual's needs and goals.
Gym
Specialist Neurological Rehabilitation Gym
Our state-of-the-art neurological rehabilitation gym provides a safe, supportive, and adaptive environment tailored specifically to individuals with neurological conditions. Designed to meet diverse rehabilitation needs, the gym is equipped with advanced, specialized tools to enhance strength, coordination, mobility, and balance in a controlled, secure setting. Here, clients with neurological challenges can work toward their goals with confidence, under the guidance of our skilled therapists.
Comprehensive, Specialised Equipment
Our facility features a range of cutting-edge equipment to support specific aspects of neurological rehabilitation:
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Walking Hoist System – Provides support and safety for gait training, enabling clients to focus on improving walking mechanics and confidence with reduced risk.
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MultiBall Wall – An interactive tool to improve coordination, focus, and reaction time, making rehabilitation engaging and effective.
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Upper Limb Function Station – Designed to enhance strength and dexterity in the arms and hands, supporting those working on fine and gross motor skills.
Additionally, we offer versatile gym equipment that can be adapted to each individual’s needs and goals:
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Cable Machines and Free Weights – Essential for strength training, offering adjustable resistance to support progressive muscle strengthening.
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Balance Equipment – Including balance boards, BOSU balls, and stability trainers, these tools aid in improving postural control and stability.
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Parallel Bars – Provide a safe environment for balance exercises and gait training, supporting clients as they practice stability and weight-shifting.
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Treadmill – Enables controlled walking exercises and gait re-education, with therapist support to ensure safe and effective training.
Safe and Adaptable Training
Safety is our highest priority. Our gym is fully accessible and features adaptive devices to meet each individual’s unique abilities and rehabilitation goals. Every session is closely monitored, with our team ready to make adjustments to support clients as they gradually increase their physical abilities in a safe, encouraging environment.
Engaging, Varied Rehabilitation Options
A varied rehabilitation approach is essential for long-term progress. Our gym offers a broad range of therapeutic activities, from functional movement exercises to strength-building routines and balance training. This variety not only supports physical improvement but also keeps clients engaged, motivated, and empowered as they work toward their rehabilitation
Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy for Neurological Rehabilitation
Our hydrotherapy sessions offer a therapeutic environment within a warm pool. By leveraging the unique properties of water—buoyancy, drag, and turbulance—we help improve strength, balance, and range of motion in a setting that provides gentle support and reduced impact on the body. Each session is conducted one-on-one, ensuring personalised attention, and patients can access the pool easily via steps or a hoist.
Our hydrotherapy services are available at Putteridge, LU2 8LD. Please reach out to learn more about scheduling and costs.
Exercise and Movement
Hydrotherapy allows for weight-supported exercises that can facilitate movements and positions that may be challenging to achieve on land. This can be particularly beneficial for gait re-education, as well as for enhancing mobility and flexibility. The water’s support enables patients to explore and strengthen movement patterns in a way that is gentle and accommodating.
Pain Management
The warm water in hydrotherapy sessions can be instrumental in reducing pain and discomfort, enabling individuals to exercise with less pain and greater ease. This makes it an ideal approach for those managing chronic pain or seeking low-impact ways to stay active during rehabilitation.
Home Visits
Physiotherapy Home Visits for Neurological Rehabilitation
Our physiotherapy home visits bring expert neurological rehabilitation directly to you, ensuring high-quality care in the comfort and convenience of your own home. Each session is carefully tailored to meet your unique needs and rehabilitation goals, focusing on improving mobility, strength, balance, and independence in a familiar environment.
Home visits allow us to provide one-on-one, personalised care, incorporating exercises and strategies that are specifically designed for your living space. Practicing these movements at home makes it easier to apply new skills to everyday tasks, helping you achieve functional improvements in a setting where you feel comfortable and supported. Our physiotherapists work with you to develop routines that fit seamlessly into your day-to-day life.
To enhance each session and maximise rehabilitation outcomes, we bring portable, specialised equipment directly to your home as needed. This can include tools like resistance bands, balance aids, hand weights, and small mobility devices, allowing us to deliver a comprehensive and varied therapy experience without requiring you to travel. Our equipment enables a wide range of exercises, supporting everything from strength building to balance training, tailored to your specific progress.
Medico-legal Cases
We have extensive experience working within Multidisciplinary teams and are able to take on Medicolegal cases. For more infomation please get in touch to discuss availability and for a copy of our Terms & Conditions.
Conditions We Treat
We are able to assess and treat many Neurological conditions. Some of the conditions we treat are below, but this is not a complete list. We treat any condition affecting the central nervous system. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Stroke
A stroke occurs when there is a disruption of blood supply to part of the brain. This can occur via a blockage (ischaemic stroke) or a bleed (haemorrhagic stroke). Damage to the brain can affect your movement, sensation, cognition, swallow and speech as well as other body functions. Rehabilitation following a stroke can be a long process, with the aim to 're-train' your brain and increase activity.
Weakness through one side of your body following a stroke can significantly affect your ability to move and walk. Breaking down elements of lost movement in therapy can help in recovery and build towards greater independence. Upper limb weakness can be a common presentation following a stroke and will require therapy to work on repetition of movement with correct technique helping the ability to reach, grasp and release objects.
Physiotherapy intervention may take the form of various types of treatment including gait re-education (learning to walk again), strengthening and conditioning, hydrotherapy (water based exercise), functional electrical stimulation (FES) and use a host of different types of equipment to help achieve the best results.
Improving independence is the ultimate focus in many treatment programs. What this means for different people varies considerably and having a Physiotherapist helps to ensure good foundations are laid for the journey ahead.
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative condition which can impact mobility over time. Individuals may experience a change in balance and the way they walk, taking shorter shuffling steps and/or have episodes of freezing whilst walking. Gradual changes in posture and strength can also affect balance leading to increased falls.
Parkinson’s can be helped through medication and exercise to help maintain ranges of movements, strength, and posture. Even if you have a diagnosis, but don’t feel it is affecting you a great deal, it is highly recommended to book an assessment with a Physiotherapist in order to determine base line measurements and start an exercise program to work on strength and balance.
Physiotherapy can help at whichever point you are with Parkinson’s, but like all conditions, the earlier you seek intervention the better.
Traumatic Brain Injury
Sudden injury to the brain caused by a blow to the head can result in Traumatic Brain Injury. This often happens as a result of road traffic accidents, falls or assaults. Like other Neurological conditions, the presentation and symptoms resulting from this can vary considerably.
Any sudden impact on our nervous system causing changes in your movement and/or cognition will have an equally sudden impact on your life and the lives of those around you. Having the right support around you to help you recover is essential.
Whether you are looking for treatment through medicolegal work or seeking to progress physical ability following an accident then we can help you. Having worked with numerous cases involving Traumatic Brain Injuries and experiencing the difficulties and demands this condition can put on people, we feel confident in helping individuals and families in pursuing the best possible recovery.
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative condition affecting the coating of the nerves (myelin). Myelin protects nerves and allows a smooth path for messages to travel from the brain. When this is scarred and not working as it should, individuals may experience altered movement, vision and cognition.
There are different types of MS and each affects people uniquely and at different rates. A diagnosis and prognosis from a Neurological consultant assists in formulating the best treatment plan for the individual.
Physiotherapy helps in maintaining mobility and movement, often helping in relapsing and remitting periods of the condition to continue with movement as best possible so that recovery is faster.
How We Can Help You
Upper Limb Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of the upper limb following a Stroke or other Neurological conditions can take different forms. Individuals may have low or high tone which affects the amount of movement they have or the positioning of the arm and hand.
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There may be a need to use splinting in order to help maintain posture around the wrist and hand as well as maintain length of the muscles in this area.
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Altered movement patterns, weakness, pain and sensation can also have significant impact on the amount of function someone has in their arm.
Strength and Conditioning
Strength and Conditioning provides a basis for many aspects of rehabilitation and does not have to take place in a gym environment.
Cardiovascular conditioning, coordination, speed and reactions are all areas that affect normal human movement. Each of us has varying abilities and when our nervous system is damaged, this has knock on effects to these areas.
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Being creative and adapting exercises to fit varying physical presentations and abilities is a useful tool in the treatments we deliver. We can help you get back to the activities you enjoy.
Functional Electrical Stimulation
FES is a type of treatment utilised in Physiotherapy to help activate muscle groups that have been affected through damage to the central nervous system. Muscles may have been paralysed or weakened from a Stroke or Traumatic Brain Injury causing reduced movement and functional ability.
Common areas of use for this type of treatment are on the shoulder, wrist and foot. There are different types of devices, some which can be used for exercise purposes and others which can be incorporated into daily life and movement such as walking.
To find out more information and if FES can help you, please get in touch.
Balance Training
Our ability to balance can be trained like all other areas of our physical function. Whether you are recovering from a Stroke or have a condition such as Multiple Sclerosis or Parkinson's, it is likely that your balance is affected in some way. Some people will find it difficult to maintain their balance in a sitting position or when they go to stand. Others may find their balance is a problem when they are walking which increases the risk of falls.
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Sometimes there is a specific area of the body causing balance problems and other times it can be the whole body contributing to the issue. If you feel there is a problem with your balance, then it is important to get an assessment in order to address any issues before they become more problematic.
Gait Re-Education
Our ability to walk is often taken for granted—a skill most of us develop so early in life that we rarely stop to think about its complexity. Walking relies on a precise gait pattern involving balance, coordination, weight shifting, stride length, speed, and propulsion. It’s only when something goes wrong that we begin to appreciate how much is involved. Many neurological conditions can disrupt these elements, impacting how we move, shift weight, step, and push off to propel forward.
Relearning to walk can be one of the most challenging aspects of rehabilitation, requiring focused practice and support. Our specialist neurological rehabilitation gym is equipped with tools like the walking hoist system and parallel bars to support clients as they work on regaining their gait. The walking hoist offers essential support, enabling safe weight shifting and gait practice with reduced risk of falls, while the parallel bars provide a stable environment to practice controlled, confident steps. Together, these tools aid clients in re-establishing a safe and effective gait, step by step.
Postural Correction
Our posture changes depending on what we are asking our body to do and forms a foundation to execute movement. Being able to adapt your posture and maintain and control your body plays an important part in rehabilitation.
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Injury to our nervous system can change our posture and make moving very difficult. Having weakness in one side of your body following a Stroke will often cause compensation through the use of the stronger side. This can lead to greater problems down the line in recovery.
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Gradual changes in posture occur with everyone, but understanding the root cause can help achieve better results.