Orthopaedic Therapy

The Orthopaedic Therapy department consists of Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists working together to improve patients functional ability and manage a safe discharge from hospital to the community.

 

We take a holistic approach to each individual’s needs. Our goal is to provide expert care for you orthopaedic condition whilst ensuring all other aspects of care which go into making a discharge from hospital as safe as possible.

 

We engage with patients directly about their care needs and liaise with next of Kin to ensure that no decision is made about an individuals care needs without them being involved.

 

Orthopaedic Therapy care at the Whittington includes traumatic injury (spinal fractures, Neck of femur fractures, Upper and lower extremity injury amongst others), elective day cases, fracture clinic referrals. We will receive patients who have been repatriated from the major trauma centres in London. We attend Orthopaedic trauma meetings and have regular communication with the surgical team to ensure optimum patient care.

 

Much of our focus is aimed at early stage rehabilitation. We aim to provide patients a pathway to independent living, using a variety of equipment and mobility aids to facilitate this progress. We have close links with the community care and rehab teams and will make referrals based on each patients’ individual needs. During a patients’ time on the ward, we will endeavour to develop an exercise programme to build strength and flexibility appropriate for the stage of recovery each person is at.

 

Things to think about when being discharged from Hospital if your mobility is temporarily limited: