What is a brain injury and how will this condition affect me?
Brain injuries can be acquired from non-traumatic events like strokes or traumatic incidents such as falls or accidents. Both types can result in physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges, emphasising the importance of specialised therapy supports.
Exercise Physiology
- Improving cardiovascular fitness
- Activity-specific training for daily tasks
- Enhancing mobility and building strength
- Hydrotherapy
- Improving balance, standing, and walking (using harnesses or overground)
- Supporting standing and weight-bearing
- Learning transfer techniques
What technologies at WCN would benefit me?
- LiteGait
- Reformer pilates machine
- Electrical stimulation
- Functional weight trainer
- Standing frame
- Wheelchair Scales
What specialty services at GNC would benefit me?
- Locomotor Training Program
- Intensive therapies
- Hydrotherapy
- Manual Therapy: Techniques like massage, dry needling, and mobilising to support pain relief, mobility, and function.
- Equipment Prescription: Recommendations for gait aids, standing frames, and other necessary equipment.
- Wheelchair Skills: Training to develop effective and safe use of wheelchairs.
- Transfer Training: Techniques to improve safe and efficient transfers.
- Range of Motion and Mobility: Exercises to enhance flexibility and movement.
- Functional Electrical Stimulation: Using electrical stimulation to improve muscle function.
- Assisted Weight Bearing: Supportive techniques to facilitate weight-bearing activities.
- Body Weight Support Treadmill Training: Using treadmills with body weight support for gait training.
- Hydrotherapy: Water-based exercises to reduce pain and enhance movement.