Physiotherapy in Care Homes in Rugeley

Hello and welcome back to the ThreeSpires Physiotherapy blog where we take a look at all things physiotherapy and health related. Before Xmas and the New Year we began examining the physiotherapy service that we deliver in Rugeley and some of the benefits that this home visit physiotherapy service offers to patients in Rugeley and surrounding areas such as Colton, Handsacre and Armitage. This article takes a brief look at the fantastic physiotherapy service that we offer in care homes in the Rugeley area and the huge difference it makes to the quality of life of our patients.

What is our Physiotherapy Service in Care Homes in Rugeley?

Often, when I have a discussion with relatives of our patients who reside in care or nursing homes in the Rugeley area I find that they thought that when their elderly relative needed rehab or exercises, that the care or nursing staff would be able to do them with them..

As all of our physiotherapists know this is very much not the case and in fact it is extremely rare that care staff will be able to do rehab exercises with their residents. The reasons for this are varied but generally it is because the staff at the home are too busy. An important point to note is that the care staff although usually well trained to provide care are not trained to assess which exercises and rehabilitation would be most appropriate for a patient. In these cases our physiotherapy service can really make a difference, as our physiotherapists come with a large amount of experience of working with patients in care or nursing homes in the Rugeley area and helping improve their mobility.

To understand more clearly how our physiotherapy service helps we can have a look at the example of a patient living in Armitage who has just had a stroke. Usually after having the stroke they will recover in hospital for some weeks until they are mediclly stable. At this point they will generally be discharged from hospital into the community and if they are unable to cope at home generally they will be placed at a nursing or care home in the Rugeley area. At this point in an ideal world what this patient really needs is a large amount of intensive physiotherapy to enable them to make the maximum possible recovery. Commonly the NHS physiotherapy service will be unable to offer sufficient physiotherapy and this is where our physiotherapy service can really make a difference. In the example given one of our highly experienced physiotherapists will be able to visit the care home in Rugeley, complete a full assessment and prepare a plan of how best to help the patient make the best possible recovery. Our physiotherapist will also be able to liaise with the staff at the home and any other medical professionals Our physios have a wide range of experience and will be able to help with most conditions such as recovering from a stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, recovery from a joint replacement and general loss of mobility due to illness. Having a physiotherapist able to visit early on in the recovery process is the best way to maximise the odds of recovery and our success with this is borne out in our testimonials section on our website (found here) and on our facebook page (found here)

I hope you have found this blog helpful, and if you know someone in a care home in Rugeley that needs physiotherapy please get in touch to see how we might be able to help.

For anyone reading: we are a home visit physiotherapy service, based in Lichfield but serving anywhere within a 20 minute drive including areas such as Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Cannock, Burton and Rugeley. We offer a wide range of services including paediatric physiotherapy, post-operative rehabilitation, neurological physiotherapy and neck and back pain relief. If you need further information or would like to book an appointment we can be contacted on 0788 428 1623 or via enquiries@threespiresphysiotherapy.co.uk