If you or someone you love is recovering from a stroke, we understand you may be worried about regaining function and independence. Circle Rehabilitation Stroke Clinic is here to help accelerate your recovery.
Circle Rehabilitation, Birmingham is ideally placed in the West Midlands for people in Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stoke, Shrewsbury, Worcester and beyond.
Our rehabilitation programmes are medically-led - your care and rehabilitation is overseen by one of our specialist rehabilitation consultants and physicians.
It involves assessment, input, treatment and therapy from a physiotherapist and an occupational therapist, who work closely with one another to ensure your benefits from the therapy are maximised.
At Circle Rehabilitation Centre, your therapy will involve a number of different aspects, including exercise, specific movements and the use of specialist equipment and technologies.
The aim of stroke motor therapy is to strengthen your muscles and to retrain your brain (neuroplasticity) through a series of different exercises, so that you can move safely again and regain as much independence as possible.
Common post-stroke symptoms that we can treat and manage at Circle Rehabilitation Stroke Clinic include:
You may experience a significant weakness or numbness in the muscles on one side of your body (hemiparesis), reducing your ability to move safely and efficiently and holding you back from daily activities.
As well as causing muscle weakness, a stroke can also cause your muscles to contract or go into spasm for long periods of time. We call this muscle tightness or muscle spasticity.
If these contractions occur in the muscles of your leg, it can significantly affect your ability to move.
Used to describe a collection of disorders that affect balance, speech and language, and co-ordination.
Everybody recovers from a stroke in a different way, so we are completely committed to providing individualised care.
Our Circle physiotherapy team will help you to maintain function in your body through the use of treatments such as exercise, deep massage and therapeutic machines.
Experts in the function and movement of the body, they will help ensure your muscles are exercised, even where you have little to no feeling in them.
Muscles that are not exercised can end up permanently shortening, a real risk for a stroke patient suffering loss of sensation or functional movement.
Our occupational therapist will help you as you adapt to any loss of mobility, showing you how to learn and develop new skills in order to carry out everyday tasks and activities.
Some of the technology and equipment that may be used by our physiotherapist or occupational therapist include:
Being able to gradually build up your capacity to walk again is a big achievement towards regaining independence following a stroke.
As well as traditional treadmills, we are also able to offer:
From free weights to exercise bikes, we have a range of functional equipment that can help you with your stroke motor therapy.
Combining neuroscience and technology, this state-of-the-art equipment can help with both upper and lower limb rehabilitation.
This advanced technology can be beneficial for upper limb and shoulder rehabilitation. It applies a small electrical charge to muscles that have become weakened or paralysed due to a stroke. This electrical charge stimulates the muscle, leading to movement.
If you are struggling to regain your independence or confidence after a stroke, why not seek help from the very best specialists, in the very finest purpose-built rehabilitation centre and with the very best possible care?
