Rehabilitation after Guillain-Barre Syndrome

This little girl is amazing us all at Reach Rehab Physiotherapy.   She developed a rare condition when she was 18 months old, called Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Guillain-Barré syndrome affects your nervous system, causes damage to the sheaths that allow your nerves to transmit their messages.    This results in paralysis of the legs, arms or

Not being mobile does not need to prevent you reaching the top of the Wrekin!

Over the past few months, we have been testing and trialling various all terrain wheelchairs with the goal to be able to get to the top of the Wrekin and today this was achieved. Physiotherapy is way more than exercises! The client has said: “I couldn’t do it in any of my other chairs, so

ON-LINE PHYSIOTHERAPY

  Reach Rehab can provide  On-line (Virtual) Physiotherapy sessions as an alternative to face to face. Why have a Virtual Session? Face to face physiotherapy is always the gold standard in my opinion.  However there are times when this is not possible, or viable for various reasons.  These can include the location of where the

My first time walking….

“I want to try to walk. I have never tried before.” So he did, and he mastered it.  Reach Rehab helped in the provision of the walking frame through a charity funding application. We are now working on building up cardiovascular fitness: an important aspect of health often over looked with those who are wheelchair

Moving forward from chair to walker