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Physiotherapy and occupational therapy team

Our physiotherapy team works with patients with respiratory problems in the Wessex neurological centre, neurosciences intensive care unit and the high dependency unit. We also have an occupational therapy team, who can help you to get mobile.

We work with other health professionals and agencies to make sure your needs are identified and that appropriate treatment, ongoing care and discharge arrangements are all in place.

We also advise other hospitals and centres on helping patients with neurological disorders and are proud to have a national role in the development and improvement of neurological services.

Diagnosis and treatment

Our team will see you if you have:

  • been intubated or ventilated
  • suffered a multiple trauma
  • a spinal injury or condition
  • a head injury
  • complex neuropathies

We also see patients in children's neuro, outpatient clinics, facial clinics and lumbar spine clinics.

We aim to see you on the same day you're referred or within 24 hours wherever possible, giving priority to patients who need respiratory care or have had surgery the previous day.

Treatment

We provide respiratory support for ventilated and non-ventilated patients. We also work with patients who have had a tracheostomy, particularly around weaning and progression.

Others treatments include

  • acute rehabilitation and work on mobility
  • spasticity management
  • posture management
  • cognitive and perceptual assessment and treatment
  • upper limb assessment and treatment, including splinting.

We will carry out functional assessments and arrange for any equipment that you need when you are discharged from hospital.

There is close working between occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and social services to make sure you get all the support that you need.

Meet the team

Our team is made up of

  • physiotherapists with specialist interests in:
    • spinal cord injury
    • spinal neurosurgery
    • facial rehabilitation
    • minimally conscious patients
    • head injury
    • management of spasticity
  • occupational therapists
  • a beauty therapist
  • a physiotherapy assistant