TAILORED TREATMENT
Improve and Manage Neurological Conditions
When the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) becomes damaged or disrupted we lose the ability to move balance and sense change. However it has the potential to adapt and learn through its complex interconnections in response to the demands and experiences we put upon it.
Neurological physiotherapy is about using different methods to develop new communication pathways in the body, or to improve the existing connections that your brain is struggling to use.
This is achieved through using our handling skills, repetitive actions and exercises, to improve the delivery of the signals being sent to and from the brain to the affected area of the body.
Our neurological physiotherapists have an in-depth knowledge of neurological conditions and an understanding of how these conditions affect the central nervous system and an individual’s ability to move independently.
They are skilled in analysing posture, muscle tone, movement control, co-ordination and interaction with your environment. From this analysis they can tailor a plan and treatment that helps you to put just the right demands on your body, so it can respond efficiently, and develop with practice.
The treatment can help our patients improve and manage such symptoms as loss of balance, loss of hand and arm, or leg and foot function, walking, spasticity and pain.
Our treatments provide an environment that enables you to become ‘tuned in’ to your own movements so that you can access movement independently.
EXPERTS IN REHABILITATION
Our Team
Our Team brings together decades of combined experience and knowledge in Neuro Physio Rehabilitation. To find out more about each team member, click on their individual profile.
Hannah Hine-Thomas
Hannah graduated as a physiotherapist from the University of Birmingham in 2014. She has worked in a variety of NHS roles across the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire areas. She has always held a particular interest in neurology and this is the area in which she chose…
Sarah Dixon
Sarah graduated from The London Hospital in 1989, and has specialised in neurology since 1991. Initially working at The Royal Free Hospital and then The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery she built up experience in both acute and long - term Rehabilitation. From there…
Isobel Sansom
Isobel graduated as a physiotherapist in 2010 with a Bsc (Hons) from Brighton University. She initially worked in paediatric neurology at the PACE centre Aylesbury as part of a highly specialised team providing physiotherapy within the educational setting. She then moved to adult mental health…
Philippa Smith
Philippa graduated as a Physiotherapist from Guy’s hospital in 1986 and has specialised in neurology since 1989. Since qualifying she has worked in several London NHS teaching hospitals including the Royal Free, Charing Cross and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She gained a…
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