Community Therapy and Rehabilitation Service
Aims of our service:
- To provide rehabilitation in your own home, residential care home, or in our Intermediate Care Residential rehab facility Dolphinlee.
- To enable you to achieve your optimum level of function.
- To promote self-management, safety, and independence.
- To encourage you to work towards mutually agreed goals within an agreed time frame.
- To reduce unnecessary hospital admission.
Service criteria:
The Community Therapy and Rehabilitation Service is available for adults aged 18 years and over (or 16 + if finished in mainstream education) and who are resident in North Lancashire and registered with a North Lancs or South Cumbria GP. Our service is for the following:
- If you have experienced a fall or are at risk of falls or have a fear of falling.
- If you have a physical health condition, a long term condition, a recent injury or surgery and this is affecting your ability to carry out essential day to day activities.
- If you have potential to improve your quality of life and / or independence with a programme of rehabilitation.
- If you require a review in your home environment.
Information about your referral:
You can be referred to our service by:
- Any health or social care professional, for example your GP, consultant, or social worker.
All referrals received into our service are screened and prioritised depending on the needs identified in the referral and allocated to either a:
- Community Physiotherapist.
- Community Occupational Therapist.
- Community Therapy Technical Instructor.
You will be contacted by the team who will arrange a home visit and an assessment will be completed.
An appropriate rehabilitation programme will be developed with you.
Therapy interventions offered:
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Falls prevention advice, education, and exercises either one to one, or in a group setting.
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Individual exercise programme for muscle strengthening, joint movement, balance, coordination, stamina and endurance to improve your level of function.
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Assessment and practise of transfers (for example, on and off bed, chair, bath, toilet, in and out of car).
- Provision of appropriate equipment to support rehabilitation where necessary.
- Assessment of your usual daily activities.
- Walking practise, stair practice, and walking aid provision where appropriate.
- Advice on energy conservation and ways of managing fatigue.
- Advice to manage low level anxiety.
- Support to manage mild cognitive impairment.
- Support to improve confidence.
Community Therapy and Rehab Service contact details:
Email: UHMBCommunityTherapyRehabilitation.NL@mbht.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01524 591646