About the program:

Our Reconditioning Program is designed to improve patient’s confidence, exercise tolerance and promote education by maximising recovery and restoration of independence after illness or injury. Through our comprehensive rehabilitation service our team will develop an individualised rehabilitation plan tailored to your needs and ability levels.

Who can benefit from this program?

A reconditioning program is suitable for any patients who have been unwell, had a debilitating injury, recently been bedridden, had a fall or recurrent falls, with reduced independence with daily activities, mobility, or a general decline in exercise capacity and strength.

The program aims:

Each patient is assessed individually by our rehabilitation team under the direction of an accredited Rehabilitation Specialist, who together will develop a rehabilitation plan according to the individual’s particular needs. Our multidisciplinary team will work with each patient to help them regain independence and resume their day to day life.

The aims of our Reconditioning Program include improving:

• Functional mobility and balance
• Falls prevention
• Cardiovascular fitness and endurance
• Muscular strength and flexibility
• physical, psychological, and social recovery
• lifestyle and reducing risk factors
• successful return to work, home and recreational activities

Our team will work in collaboration with you, your GP and other specialists to achieve a holistic assessment and integrated treatment regime dedicated to minimising the effect of disability.

This program may include:

• Group or 1:1 physiotherapy with graded activity aimed at progressively increasing general strength, joint range of movements and mobility.
• Exercise physiology focusing on improving cardiovascular endurance, exercise tolerance and overall function.
• Hydrotherapy
• Occupational Therapy focusing on retraining safe self-care techniques, organising equipment and ensuring safe home set up for discharge
• Social Work as needed to organise services for discharge
• Dietetics involving education about healthy eating
• Information about medication management

Members of our experienced multidisciplinary team include the following health professionals:

• Exercise Physiology
• Clinical Pharmacists
• Dieticians
• Occupational Therapists
• Physiotherapists
• Rehabilitation Nurses
• Rehabilitation Physicians and Medical Officers
• Social Workers
• Psychologists