Physiotherapy in Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery Rehabilitation
We provide patients who have musculoskeletal injuries (such as broken bones or injured tendons) with early functional treatment while keeping to surgical and orthopaedic follow-up treatment plans. This ensures that mobility, strength, endurance and coordination are maintained and improved and lost functions and abilities are regained. People who have lost a limb are provided with a prosthesis that is tailored to their individual needs and trained in using it to make it easier for them to return to their usual social environment.
Therapy options:
- Manual therapy techniques such as joint mobilisation or soft tissue treatment according to recognised and evidence-based (effectiveness has been proven in studies) concepts
- Treatment of patients with amputated limbs
- Active movement therapy in groups (tailored exercise therapy, endurance training)
- One-to-one and group treatment in the swimming or hydrotherapy pool
- Ergonomic consultation and training for everyday activities
- Training in self-treatment of acute and chronic problems and phantom phenomena (known as coping strategies, in combination with the Recognise range, mirror box therapy, etc.)
- Personalised, goal-oriented nursing home programmes
- Movement exercises in a virtual environment, using technology such as the Nintendo Wii or the Armeo, a robotic arm training device with a computer game
- Medical training therapy with consideration of medical and physiological aspects in relation to training
- Walking exercises on the Alter G® anti-gravity treadmill, which reduces the patient's body weight by up to 80%
- Passive physical therapies: using heat and cold, electrotherapy, massage, trigger point treatment, taping, Kinesio taping and lymphatic drainage
Diagnostic assessments:
- Assessment of electronic prosthetic knee joints for patients with leg prostheses. The orthopaedic technician, doctor and physiotherapist work with the patient to investigate which prosthesis is the most suitable.
- Home assessments for patients with amputated limbs
- Assistive device assessments (wheelchairs, therapeutic aids)
