We are a nationally recognised award winning service, with advanced skilled specialist physiotherapists.
Physiotherapy helps to restore movement and function when someone is affected by injury, illness or disability.
The physiotherapists use a variety of treatment approaches and involve patients in their own care through education, awareness, empowerment and participation in their treatment, helping patients to manage pain and prevent disease. Patients are encouraged to play an active role in their treatment, agreeing treatment goals and options and may involve commitment to a home exercise programme. In some cases advice on how to self manage a condition with exercises for example may be the first line of approach.
Physiotherapy helps to maintain health, well being and quality of life for people of all ages using a “whole person“ approach including the patients general lifestyle.Treatment can encourage development and facilitate recovery, enabling people to stay in work and helping them to remain independent for as long as possible.
Physiotherapists use their knowledge and skills to improve a wide range of conditions associated with different systems of the body:
- Neurological (brain or spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis .Parkinson’s disease
- Neuromusculoskeletal (back pain, whiplash, ligament injuries, arthritis)
- Cardiovascular (stroke, chronic heart disease)
- Respiratory (asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis.)
You may therefore benefit from physiotherapy at any time, for example, to help with back pain or a recent injury such as whiplash or a ligament injury, or to help manage a long term condition such as asthma.
Services we provide:
Fast Physio is an award winning service for employees of ELHT to access physiotherapy to keep them in work or assist them to return to work earlier after injury or illness to reduce sickness and absence levels.
The MSK Adult Outpatient Physiotherapy Service is an integral part of the Integrated Musculoskeletal Service (IMPReS), and is a patient-centred service, offering specialist Physiotherapy assessment and treatment for patients with a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions. Click on the link below.
Integrated Musculoskeletal / Physiotherapy Service
Services provided
Specialist Physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, advice and treatment on an outpatient basis for patients with a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions.
We also offer expert and specialist advice to General Practitioners (GPs), Consultants, other Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), nursing staff and other relevant Health Care professionals. We can also offer Medico-legal report writing, student placements and research opportunities.
Additional information for patients
We currently offer our service at numerous sites across the region and core opening hours are 8am to 4pm Monday to Friday.
The Inpatient Physiotherapy Team provide physiotherapy assessment and treatment for patients on the in-patient medical, surgical and orthopaedic wards. We provide initial assessment and physiotherapy treatments working closely with our multidisciplinary colleagues in the in-patient setting to facilitate discharge and reduce length of stay.
Treatment options will vary according to your individual problems and will be fully discussed with you and goals agreed between the patient and the therapist. Treatment may include exercises, advice, rehabilitation and assistance with mobility.
We cater for all inpatient wards at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital. We can be contacted by telephone on 01254 735091 and offer our service between 8am and 4:30pm Monday to Fridays. There is a limited weekend service to assist with flow and the discharge of patients on the wards and a Respiratory on-call service which operates in the evenings and at weekends.
The POG Physiotherapy Service provides outpatient physiotherapy assessment and intervention for people with a range of bladder and bowel problems as well as pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain.
The physiotherapy service operates within core hours of 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday with a respiratory emergency on call service operating overnight and weekends on medical request only by bleep or contact by switchboard.
Additional weekend sessions operating currently from 8am to 12noon and 1pm to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday to assist patient flow and facilitate discharge for surgical medical and orthopaedic inpatients on the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital site.
There is currently an extended physiotherapy service operating from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and across the weekend in the Urgent Care Centre at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital.
