NEUROLOGICAL PHYSIOTHERAPY

Rehabilitation built around your life, not just your diagnosis.

Neurological physiotherapy can help people improve or maintain movement, strength, balance, walking, mobility and independence following changes to the nervous system.

This may include rehabilitation after stroke, neurological injury or a progressive neurological condition.

But rehabilitation should not stop at what happens on a treatment table.
We work towards the things you actually need and want to do in everyday life.

Woman completing neurological rehabilitation with physiotherapist in the Strong Foundations gym

What does that look like?

— Practising transfers

— Getting on and off the floor

— Returning to exercise

— Practising stairs

— Getting on and off the floor

— Using an orthosis or mobility aid more effectively

— Building confidence outside the home

— Walking further

— Improving walking speed

— Building balance and confidence

— Maintaining function and independence

Experience matters.

Before establishing Strong Foundations Physiotherapy, Tracey worked across Queensland Health community rehabilitation as well as private practice.

Neurological rehabilitation has remained one of the strongest areas of her clinical practice.

Complex neurological rehabilitation is not always linear.

Sometimes rehabilitation is about recovery.
Sometimes it is about compensation.
Sometimes it is about maintaining function.
Sometimes it is about preserving independence and reducing avoidable decline.

All of those goals matter.

The plan also needs to change as the person changes.
Neurological rehabilitation often requires regular reassessment because strength, fatigue, balance, movement quality, confidence and day-to-day function can all affect what is appropriate.

wheelchair user completing upper body strength training with physiotherapist during neurological rehabilitation

More than three sets of ten.

Exercises have their place.

But if the goal is to climb your stairs, eventually we need to practise stairs.
If the goal is getting off the floor, eventually we need to practise getting off the floor.
If the goal is walking in the community, rehabilitation needs to prepare you for uneven ground, fatigue, distractions, changes in speed and the unpredictability of real life.

Strength training also belongs in neurological rehabilitation.
Where appropriate, we progressively build strength, balance, endurance and task-specific capacity rather than relying only on low-level or repetitive exercises.

Physiotherapy should progressively bridge the gap between what you can do in treatment and what you need to do in life.

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