Care Home Physiotherapy Services

We offer a range of physiotherapy services and packages to care homes and nursing homes to assist with the physiotherapy needs of residents both in terms of regaining mobility, maintaining current levels of mobility, assessing and reducing falls risk and assessing transfer methods. Our physiotherapists are highly experienced in working with elderly patients with a range of conditions and communicating with medical professionals such as GPs and care staff. We have a large number of testimonials from patients and can provide references from care home managers. Below are some of the services that our physios are able to provide:

1. Physiotherapy Sessions In House:

We are able to run in house physiotherapy sessions in care and nursing homes across the Staffordshire and West Midlands area. These sessions can be tailored to meet the needs of your residents and your care home but would in general be a minimum of 2 hours and can extend up to 8 hours if needed. Sessions can be done regularly on a specific day and time each week or month as required and our physiotherapist will assess and provide physiotherapy to residents that have been identified by staff, carers or management as needing physiotherapy. The physiotherapist in these sessions will be able to help with a range of needs such as: 

• Identifying residents at risk of falls and putting in measures to reduce the falls risk. The physiotherapist in conjunction with staff can look at the mobility of the resident, the equipment they are using and decide upon measures to reduce this risk.
• Assessing the most stutable method of transfer. The physio will be able to advise and recommend for residents suitable equipment such as zimmer frames, walkers, walking sticks, stand aids and full hoists.
• Improving and maintaining mobility of residents. The physiotherapist will be able to assess residents and determine the best way to help improve and maintain their mobility, this is especially useful if they are a new resident or have returned after a hospital admission.
• Staff training: the physio can provide staff training on subjects such as exercises, contractures, use of splints and manual therapy.

All of this can be clearly documented in the clinical notes of the care home and the physiotherapist will be able to feed back to staff, management and relatives as needed.

2. Exercise Classes:

Some patients and residents benefit from group intervention and exercise. As such we are able to offer physiotherapist led exercise classes that can be adapted to meet the needs of your residents. Sessions can set at a level that is suitably challenging for all residents no matter what their level. We are highly experienced in helping dementia patients engage with exercises and therapy. For those whose balance and mobility is too poor to do standing exercises we are able to offer an excellent seated alternative.

3. Staff Training:

We offer training for your staff to help with a range of issues: such as safety with rehabilitation exercises – knowing which exercises are appropriate and when it is safe to do them. Appropriate referral to physiotherapy and occupational therapy and training on who benefits from these services and what is available. We also offer training on contracture prevention, safe stretching techniques and splinting:

• Contracture Prevention Training: .contractures are a significant problem for many care and nursing home residents and anyone spending a lot of time in bed is at risk of having a joint contracture. If identified early and treated quickly contractures can be prevented and the risk minimised. We offer staff training on assessment, identification and treatment of contractures.
• Splinting: as part of maintaining healthy and full joint range, splints can be extremely useful and our physios can help with training staff to identify residents who are likely to benefit from splinting and also how to safely apply splints.

If you would like anymore information about any of these physiotherapy services that we offer to care and nursing homes then please get in touch. We can be contacted via phone on 07884281623 or email: enquiries@threespiresphysiotherapy.co.uk