Using physiotherapy to enhance outcomes before and after surgery. Physiotherapy plays an important role in rehabilitation, both before and after your operation.
PRE-SURGERY PHYSIOTHERAPY INCLUDES:
- Targeted training program to address dysfunction or weakness surrounding your injury
- Advice and education about expectations post-surgery and details about rehabilitation
- Patient-guided goal setting to return to normal activities of daily living post-surgery
- A tailored home exercise program to maintain or improve strength, flexibility and function leading into surgery.
- This is also known as “Prehab” and will help to optimise your outcomes post operatively.
POST-SURGERY PHYSIOTHERAPY INCLUDES:
- Advice and guidance through your post-operative rehabilitation
- Advice and education about mobility and function at home, work and in the community
- Soft tissue and joint mobilisation to help reduce pain, increase movement and progress function
- Providing long term strategy ideas to ensure people not only meet their fitness goals, but reduce the risk of further injury
- A progressive training/exercise program to enable a graded return to work, sport, day-to-day activities and remove all barriers to their fitness journey!