Spinal Injury Rehabilitation | Royal Bucks Rehabilitation Centre

The Best Route To Recovery

Spinal cord injury can have a significant impact on someone’s life, with symptoms that vary greatly depending on the severity and type of injury.

The higher up on the spinal cord an injury occurs, more of the body is affected, causing paralysis, reduction in movement or muscle weakness.

Our rehabilitation centre delivers expert care for complete and incomplete spinal cord injury, with a skilled multi-disciplinary team dedicated to working with each patient.

Alongside our specialised team the centre is equipped with leading innovative technologies such as the anti-gravity treadmill, to improve mobility and gain strength.

Our onsite hydrotherapy pool helps relieve pain and increase tone and mobility in a calm environment.

A Multidisciplinary Approach

Our patients benefit from a highly skilled team of clinical specialists including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists and language therapists who will work closely with the patient depending on their personal treatment plan.

Physiotherapy

Our physiotherapists are specialised in spinal cord injuries as well as treating a wide range of other conditions. Treatment can be a combination of traditional techniques and using neurotechnology.

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Hydrotherapy

A purpose built 8.5 metre heated pool, heated to 34º C, provides hydrotherapy to help alleviate pain, encourage movement and support your weight. Skilled hydrotherapists supervise each session.

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Occupational therapist and patient in kitchen

Occupational Therapy

Our skilled occupational therapy team supports people in relearning everyday tasks after spinal cord injury, including practical training in our purpose built kitchen.

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Leading Technology for Spinal Cord Injury

Our advanced technology plays a pivotal role in supporting patients on their path to recovery. Each piece of equipment focuses on improving particular functions of the body or mind, from assisted robotic walking to simulating grasping motions.

Along with guidance from a highly experienced physiotherapist or occupational therapist our state-of-the-art technology will help patients reach their full potential to recovery.

Anti-Gravity

To reduce the impact of walking, or running and allow healing.

Exoskeletons

A wearable robot, giving people the freedom to walk again.

Intento PRO

Upper limb rehabilitation, with controlled electrical stimulation.

K Laser Therapy

Specific light wavelengths help to regenerate deep tissue.

SaeboFlex

To help regain hand function after neurological impairment.

Tyromotion

To assess movement and to improve balance, or strength.

Mindmotion

Interactive, game based therapy for neurological recovery.

RT300 FES Bike

Electrical stimulation, to initiate and relearn movement.

Patient taking part in cognitive virtual therapy

Brain recovery with neuroplasticity

The brain has an extraordinary ability to change and reorganise information. After a traumatic injury neuroplasticity can be crucial to help the brain recover and regain function. Neuroplasticity involves rerouting neuronal pathways and creating new connections in the brain through high levels of repetition. Our rehabilitation team use treatments and technologies that incorporate neuroplasticity to improve motor, mental and sensory function.

Tailored Goals

No matter what challenges our patients are facing goals are tailored to individual needs following a person-centred approach. Our belief is to empower each person to be fully part of their rehabilitation journey.

Every patient will have a careful and thorough assessment before treatment begins, which includes understanding the level of injury and how it happened, along with getting to know you as a person – your occupation, hobbies, family life.

All this information will help our specialist physiotherapists create tangible short-term and long-term goals, along with realistic time scales, as part of your journey to recovery.

Goals are tailored to individual needs as we believe in a person-centred approach. We empower each individual to be fully part of their rehabilitation journey.

Liat Vives – Senior Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Spinal Cord Injuries

Inpatient Therapy Packages

Our personalised inpatient therapy packages offer rehabilitation for people who need intensive and focused care to help recovery from complete or incomplete spinal cord injury.

Packages are priced depending on the number of therapy sessions per day.

Our hospital offers comfortable private rooms with en-suite bathrooms, 24/7 nursing care, and freshly prepared meals on site. Patients have easy access to the centre’s facilities and receive dedicated support from our clinical team.

Family and friends can stay nearby in one of our 1 or 2 bedroom flats located on the hospital grounds. The flats have been recently converted and offer clean, modern facilities.

Inpatient Information

Direct Physical Therapy

Physiotherapists with significant experience of spinal injuries will be at the centre of your support, whether guiding you on the use of a bionic suit, or in a more direct way.

Sessions can simply be on a gym floor, treatment table, or be a mix of standard physiotherapy and available technology.

Our wheelchair accessible hydrotherapy pool provides a fine environment for free movement. The same applies to anti gravity facilities, or supportive apparatus.

Physiotherapy that you experience is designed to be engaging, through the activities themselves and the progress this allows you to make as each session unfolds.