Neuro-rehabilitation care and treatment

Our neuro-rehabilitation care includes the following interventions and treatment:

Occupational therapy intervention including:

• Personal activities of daily living
• Domestic activities of daily living
• Community access and leisure activities
• Splinting for management of abnormal tone and muscle contractures
• Pre- vocational assessment and activities
• Vocational rehabilitation and liaising with local services/ voluntary services
• Perceptual skill assessment and retraining
• Compensatory strategies for cognitive deficits

Staff competencies include:

• Functional evaluation
• Cognitive and perceptual evaluation
• Sensory stimulation for clients in low awareness
• Low awareness assessment using SMART

Physiotherapy treatments available include:

• Comprehensive neurological assessment
• 24-hour postural management
• Holistic approach to treatment including the bobath concept, motor relearning programme,
• Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
• Gait re-education
• Balance training
• Hydrotherapy (accessing local services)
• Tracheostomy management
• Casting/splinting

Staff competencies include:

• Complex movement analysis
• Handling of tonal changes
• Recommendations for specialist seating
• Respiratory care
• Contracture management
• Fitness training
• Writing case reports, medico-legal documentation and liaison with numerous outside agencies

Speech and language therapy (SLT) treatments are:

• Complex dysphagia management
• Liaison with NHS for fees and videofluoscopy investigations
• Tracheostomy management
• Motor speech disorders
• Aphasic language disorders
• Cognitive-linguistic disorders
• Social language disorders
• Low awareness testing and treatment planning; SMART Assessment
• Lo and hi tech alternative and augmentive communication aids

Staff competencies are:

• Holistic approach to communication disorders
• Assessment for AAC devices
• Carer training