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Recently had a stroke? Make sure your out-patient rehabilitation doesn’t stop

18th September 2015 by Headsup Neurological Physiotherapy Ltd.

Having a stroke is a sudden and shocking experience. Whilst in hospital, people who have had strokes usually get treatment from neurological physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists. Treatment is most effective when delivered in stroke units.

However, with the pressure on hospital beds, people will often get an early supported discharge with treatment continuing at home. Rehabilitation at home in this way should be a continuation of the stroke rehabilitation done in hospital. Unfortunately, there are often gaps in the provision of service. Delays are common, reducing the intensity of treatment and therefore optimum recovery.

At heads up! we often step in where there is a delay in out-patient treatment provision. Our highly trained and skilled specialist neurological physiotherapists provide hands on treatment along with giving information, advice, support and encouragement. We work alongside community NHS stroke teams, a combined approach which is supported by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists to ensure the best possible recovery.

To find out how heads up! can support your home rehabilitation please get in touch with the team.

Find out more and keep in touch at headsup.co.uk and follow us on twitter

Filed Under: Headsup Blog, Stroke Rehabilitation

New website and blog from heads up!

28th August 2015 by Headsup Neurological Physiotherapy Ltd.

What an exciting time this is for heads up! A new website, blog launch and Emma back from maternity leave in September. I started heads up! in 1997 and am still as passionate about my work today. We have grown to a team of five specialist neuro physios, always providing individual, hands on treatment.

Making a difference to the quality of life for anyone who has had a stroke or difficulties with movement and balance as a result of neurological deficit. Our new website is clear, simple and most importantly easy for people to find the information they need. It shows visitors the journey of recovery we embark on, gaining strength and confidence with our patients and their families to get the very best potential recovery possible. A big thank you to all our patients who kindly agreed to have their session photographed and used on the website.

Please take the time to have a look around headsup.co.uk and let us know if there is anything we have missed. We offer our patients, their families, careers and friends more than just treatment. We give continual support and advice. Following feedback we decided to create a blog, a place where we can share useful information on neurological conditions, tips on exercise at home, new research, more about the team and guest blogs from professional experts.

If there are any topics you would like to see us talking about please get in touch.

Filed Under: Headsup Blog

Talks on stroke and neurological rehabilitation

20th July 2015 by Headsup Neurological Physiotherapy Ltd.

Looking for someone to come along to your group and talk about neurological rehabilitation? We give talks to a number of local groups supporting people who have had strokes, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis.  Please get in touch if you would like us to come along to your support group.

 

Filed Under: Headsup Blog, Stroke Rehabilitation

The Bobath Concept explained

20th July 2015 by Headsup Neurological Physiotherapy Ltd.

For many people the Bobath concept is a new idea, however it has been practised for over 80 years. It is based upon two key principles:

  • People with neurological problems can improve their movement skills.
  • The importance of treating the body holistically.

First developed by Berta Bobath MBE PhD (Hon), she had come to the UK from Germany in the 1930s with her Czech husband, a neurologist and psychiatrist. She specialised in neurological disorders and set up a centre for children with cerebral palsy.

At the time, the prevailing wisdom was that people with strokes couldn’t improve any of their movement skills that had been damaged. At best, people were encouraged to strengthen their undamaged sides; at worst, rehabilitation wasn’t even encouraged.

Bobath’s revolutionary ideas showed that people could improve movement on their damaged side after a stroke. Her holistic approach also showed that the body functioned as a whole, and that walking and balance could be improved through treatment of the arm.

Bobath explained the concept in an interview as “a whole new way of thinking, observing, interpreting what the patient is doing, and then adjusting what we do in the way of techniques – to see and feel what is necessary, possible for them to achieve. We do not teach movements, we make them possible.”

The basis of the Bobath concept lies in handling patients so that the physiotherapist helps to facilitate movement by lengthening short muscles, mobilising or moving tight joints, strengthening weak muscles and helping to keep their bodies in better alignment. This can be summarised as ‘stabilising wobbly bits and mobilising stiff bits’.

It is difficult for people to learn new movements or to become confident in their existing movements on their own. Physiotherapists can give them the opportunity to practice movements in an atmosphere of safety.

The Bobath approach helps people to move in the most efficient manner possible, so that they conserve their energy, lessen the wear and tear on their bodies, and reduce the strain they are feeling. The aim is to teach the body and mind how to move most easily – involving as many parts of the body as possible, using all the movement already available, and trying to increase movement skills.

If one part of their body is out of balance because it is stiff or painful, feels like concrete or is working too hard, the physiotherapist will try to help by providing balance and giving all parts of the body a chance to work together.

All the heads up! physiotherapists follow the Bobath approach in their work. To find out more about this approach, contact Sally Watt, Practice Manger on 01306 888171.

Bobath Training programmes

Bobath training is mostly given at post-graduate level. Those physiotherapists specialising in neuro-physiotherapy who want to train in the Bobath concept have three levels of training:

  • Introductory modules on movement analysis
  • A 3-week residential course, including a project on strokes
  • A week-long advanced Bobath course, which can only be taken a year after the second course.

On completion of all these levels, a physiotherapist can use the designation ‘Bobath trained’.

All physiotherapists working at heads up! have completed the three week course, at least one advanced course, and further training courses through the British Bobath Tutors Association (BBTA).

Filed Under: Bobath, Headsup Blog

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