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Physiotherapy tailored to you at home

I am a professional and caring Registered Physiotherapist based in Hoylake, highly experienced in treating older people at home.

With a wealth of experience across acute hospital, outpatient and community settings, my experience enables me to carry out a comprehensive and holistic assessment of your current level of function, identifying problems and creating a tailored treatment plan to help you achieve your goals.

I continue to work in the NHS and therefore have an excellent appreciation of the pressures on community services to support people at home. I currently work in admission avoidance, supporting older people to remain at home after illness or injury or during times of crisis.

My experience includes the following areas of physiotherapy:

  • Falls assessment, prevention and recovery

  • Elderly rehabilitation

  • Pre and post operative rehab

  • Stroke and neurological conditions

  • Trauma and Orthopaedics

  • Respiratory conditions

  • Intensive care rehabilitation

  • Urgent community response

  • Amputee rehabilitation

  • Oncology and palliative care

  • Musculoskeletal conditions

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Physiotherapy at home

Benefits of being treated at home

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Assessing you at home enables me to assess your mobility in the context of your own environment, rather than a clinic setting.

It helps me understand what challenges you may be facing at home, how we can address them and enables you to be treated in the comfort of your own home. It helps me understand your lifestyle and your goals and how we can work together to improve things.

It's convenient. Getting out to appointments can be really difficult for older people and their families - let me come to you.

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Falls

Physiotherapy can help with falls. Having a fall is one of the main reasons older people are admitted to hospital with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) estimating that 30% of people over 65 fall once a year. This estimate increases to 50% of all 80 year olds falling at least once year.

Having a fall can result in fractures and other injuries, pain, loss of confidence and can mean everyday activities become much more difficult to manage. It can be difficult to recover after a fall and your risk of having further falls also increases.

If you or a relative has had a fall recently, a near miss or just feel you are becoming unsteady on your feet, you may benefit from a comprehensive falls assessment at home.

The causes of falls are multifactorial but the evidence does show that assessment together with an individualised home exercise programme, home safety advice and ongoing monitoring can really help.

Please get in touch to find out how physiotherapy could help you.

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Assessment, treatment and prevention

Recovery

Safe return home after a hospital stay

Being in hospital affects us all, but as we age a hospital stay can severely impact strength, mobility and balance which in turn affects mobility, increases risks of falls and can make everyday tasks more difficult to manage without help. A 10 day admission can age muscles by around 10 years in patients over 80 (NHS). Physiotherapy can rebuild strength and confidence following a hospital stay, all within your familiar surroundings to support you to return to your usual activities as soon as possible.

Delays in treatment can impact recovery - I can provide a responsive service once you return home and using a private provider does not impact your entitlement to access NHS services.

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