Stroke · spinal injury · after neurosurgery · Bhopal
Physiotherapy at home after a stroke, a spinal injury or brain surgery. A physiotherapist comes to the room he is already in , and on the days between, runs the therapy remotely while your attendant, trained by us, assists.
Does this sound familiar?
Why it usually stops
Recovery after a stroke is rarely lost in the therapy room. It is lost in getting to the therapy room.
A wheelchair, a staircase, an auto, two people and an hour each way. Families sustain it for weeks, not months.
In most households an attendant or a family member is already doing transfers and exercises: improvising, with nobody to ask.
Joints that aren't moved shorten. It happens between visits, and by the time it is obvious it takes far longer to undo.
What the treatment involves
Electrical stimulation makes a muscle contract when he cannot yet make it contract himself. EMG shows whether it is starting to fire on its own.
Daily range of movement and positioning, to hold off the stiffness and contractures that follow a limb that stops being used.
Balance in sitting, then transfers, then standing, then stepping: practised on his own bed, his own chair, his own floor.
Tone and spasticity worked on with positioning, stretch and modalities, with anything concerning referred back to his doctor the same day.
None of this is a promise about how much comes back. Neurological recovery varies enormously between people. What your physiotherapist will give you is an honest picture at the assessment, and measurements every week so you can see for yourself.
What to expect
Physiotherapist visits most days. Baseline measured. Equipment installed. Positioning and range of movement started immediately.
Your attendant is trained and certified. Visits reduce; supervised remote sessions carry the daily work, with a physiotherapist watching.
Improvement after a stroke does not stop at six months, but it does stop if the therapy does. Sessions continue at a lower frequency, reassessed quarterly.
Timings are general and vary a great deal with the type and severity of the injury. Your physiotherapist gives you a written plan at the assessment and reviews it with you every four weeks.
The care partner programme
In paralysis care there is nearly always someone doing the daily work: an attendant, a wife, a son. We train and certify that person , give them a written protocol, and a physiotherapist watches their technique on video twice a month.
No session unlocks until they pass. They carry out the plan. Every dose, every progression and every clinical decision stays with the physiotherapist.
Training happens before a care partner runs a single session
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Who would look after him
A senior physiotherapist assesses him in person, writes the plan, reviews it every four weeks and is the person you speak to throughout. Our physiotherapists are employed by us, not introduced to you. If it isn't working, tell us and we will change it.
Before you enquire
The care partner programme is not offered in the first six weeks after an acute stroke. In that period a physiotherapist does the hands-on work, and the household is trained afterwards. We would rather lose the enquiry than take on someone we cannot treat properly.
No cost · no obligation
A senior physiotherapist comes to you in Bhopal, examines him properly, and gives you an honest picture of what the months ahead look like. If we are not the right people, we will say where to go instead.