Physiotherapy
What is Physiotherapy? It is a healthcare profession concerned with human function and maximising potential. Physiotherapists work in a wide variety of health settings such as intensive care, mental illness, stroke recovery, occupational health, and care of the elderly. Physiotherapy is far more than fixing musculoskeletal sports injuries although that is perhaps the most common perception of the profession.
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Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy helps people of all ages to lead healthy and fulfilling lives by improving their ability to carry out daily activities. Occupational Therapists treat individuals by assessing and working on functional ability, providing education for patients or carers, modifying ways of doing tasks, supplying equipment, recommending environmental modification, and organising services required to enable the patient to function as independently as possible within their own home.
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Speech and Language Therapy
Speech and Language Therapists are the lead experts regarding communication and swallowing disorders across all patient groups. They provide evidence- based services that anticipate and respond to the needs of individuals who experience speech, language, communication or swallowing difficulties.
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Dietetics
Our team of Dietitians are all uniquely qualified to translate scientific information about food into practical dietary advice. As well as providing advice about nutrition and health, dietitians also advise about food related problems and treat disease and ill health.
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Clinical Psychology
The clinical psychologist's job is to reduce the patient’s distress and promote physical and mental health. We help people who are distressed as a result of their physical health problem or where distress for other reasons makes it difficult to cope with the problem.
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Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology is the science concerned with understanding the relationship between the brain and human behaviour. If an individual sustains an injury to their brain they may experience a corresponding change in their cognition (i.e. their memory, thoughts etc.), emotions (anxiety, low mood etc.) or behaviour.
Neuropsychology aims to understand the psychological consequences of neurological and neurosurgical conditions and to use this information to help patients to better understand and cope with their illnesses.
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