Neurological Conditions
Living with a Neurological condition can be very challenging and overwhelming at times for you and your family. Managing your condition effectively supports your rehabilitation process and improves your quality of life and mental well-being. Having an advocate with the clinical knowledge and experience can be of great help.
As each physiotherapy program is individually tailored to your needs, we will support you at an intensity and frequency that suits you. This could mean attending monthly or yearly for reviews, weekly more intensive treatment or managing your condition independently and attending only when you are having a flare up or struggling to cope.
You will be able to access the same Physiotherapist for whatever intensity of support you need to allow continuity.  In some cases a Home Visit may best suit your needs.  There is more information on this on our Home Vists page.
Neurological Physiotherapy is a specialty that focuses on treatment of individuals affected by disorders, conditions and injuries to the brain, spine and nerves. We have experience treating a great variety of these conditions including:
- Stroke
- Brain injury
- Cerebral Palsy
- Spinal injury
- Migraine
- Muscular dystrophy
- Guillain Barre Syndrome
- Cerebella Ataxia
- Myelopathy
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Acoustic neuroma
- Dementia
- Brain tumour
- Motor neurone disease
- Parkinsons Disease
- Rehabilitation
Activities and exercises that help you achieve a specific goal to improve your health and wellbeing. The difficulty of this goal can vary from small changes like being able to get out of bed independently, or being able to put on your own socks, to much larger targets like getting on and off the floor or walking 10 miles. Sometimes when goals are very big you will need to set yourself smaller more achievable goals to get towards a bigger goal. Your neurological physiotherapist will help you identify appropriate steps towards these achievements, motivate you and assess your improvement.
- Condition management
some neurological conditions can get worse with time; some improve and some flare up episodically. It is useful to have tools available to slow the progression and to keep you going. These tools can come in many forms including:- Advice on activity and pacing
- Exercises
- Manual therapy
- Massage
- Position advice
- Pain management
- Tonal management
- Sleep hygiene
- Stress management and relaxation
- Electrotherapy – eg TENS, microcurrent, ultrasound and shock wave therapy
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- How to manage a flare up
There are lots of neurological conditions present episodically, with a flare up of symptoms such as relapsing and remitting MS and migraine. Your neurological Physiotherapist can help you collect data to identify triggers, avoid triggers if you are able, intervene early and provide you with options to navigate a flare up of symptoms and return to normal function as soon as possible.It is also possible for an individual with a neurological condition to have a musculoskeletal injury or dysfunction. Sometimes we forget you can have more than one thing going on! A clinician that understands how your neurological condition affects how you respond to treatment can have a significant impact on a desirable outcome.
If you have any questions, you can call reception on 01335 344952 or email our therapists for further information at admin@ashbournephysio.co.uk
Specialist Physio
Lucy Langford
BSc (Hons), Human Biology BSc (Hons), MCSP
We are very lucky to have Lucy, a physiotherapist who specialises in BPPV and neurological conditions. Lucy works at both our Ashbourne and Hilton Physio Clinics.