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- Theatres
Title - Patient information: Requesting for an amputated limb to be returned after surgery
Description - As a patient at Mersey and West Lancashire (MWL) Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we can support you with intentions and wishes to have a limb or part thereof, returned after it has been amputated, for burial or retention purposes. - Therapy Services
Title - A Guide for Managing Tasks Using One Hand
Description - Following an injury to your hand or upper limb, completing daily tasks and activities can become challenging. You may have been advised to avoid using your injured hand for function or you may have limited use of your injured hand due to issues such as swelling or pain.Title - Abdominal Muscles during pregnancy and beyond
Description - separation of abdominal musclesTitle - Acromioclavicular (ACJ) Joint Injury
Description - This is a follow-up leaflet to your recent telephone consultation with the fracture care team explaining the ongoing management of your injury. Your case has been reviewed by an Orthopaedic Consultant (Bone Specialist) and a Physiotherapist.Title - Advice and Exercises Following a Caesarean Delivery
Description - A caesarean section is an operation that delivers your baby through your abdomen (tummy). It is a major operation which will take several weeks to recover from. It generally takes longer to recover from a caesarean section than a vaginal birth. It is important that you take time to rest but also know how to help your body recover. In the early days following your caesarean you may experience discomfort/pain getting in/out bed, walking or carrying out any activity that causes strain on your tummy or when you open your bladder or bowels.Title - Advice from the Burns and Plastics Therapy Team on caring for healed burns and skin grafts
Description - It is very important to ensure that you monitor your skin condition carefully. Healed skin can break down. This can be for a number of reasons, advice within this leaflet aims to advise you how to avoid skin breakdown and what to do if it occurs.Title - Advice on Splint Wear and Care
Description - Precautions, cleaning, wearing instructions and timescales.Title - Ankle Fracture Full Weight Bearing - 4 weeks
Description - This is a follow-up leaflet to your recent telephone consultation with the fracture care team explaining the ongoing management of your injury. Your case has been reviewed by an Orthopaedic Consultant (Bone Specialist) and a Physiotherapist.Title - Ankle Fracture full weight bearing - 6 weeks
Description - This is a follow-up leaflet to your recent telephone consultation with the fracture care team explaining the ongoing management of your injury. Your case has been reviewed by an Orthopaedic Consultant (Bone Specialist) and a Physiotherapist.Title - Ankle Fracture Partial Weight Bearing for 4 Weeks
Description - This is a follow up leaflet to your recent telephone consultation with the fracture care team explaining the ongoing management of your injury. Your case has been reviewed by an Orthopaedic Consultant (Bone Specialist) and a Physiotherapist.Title - Balance Exercises (Low level)
Description - These exercises are designed to improve your standing balance.Title - Bariatric Surgery Physiotherapy
Description - ERAS programme aims to help you recover quickly and safely and is designed by the specialist team, to ensure your surgical admission goes as smoothly as possible. The goal is to get you home safely after your operation and to kick start a healthier lifestyle going forwards. It is important for you to understand all aspects of your recovery, as you play the most important part. It allows us to manage your expectations and reduce anxieties of what is to come.Title - Bariatric surgery rehabilitation prescription
Description - To gain the best results following your surgery, you must start adding exercise into your daily routine as quickly as possible. We would advise completing the following exercises to help build your strength, improve your exercise tolerance and help reduce the risk of post-operative complications (e.g. chest infections, and deep vein thrombosis). We understand that everyone has a different baseline exercise tolerance and ability. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the physiotherapy team to discuss your exercise programme.Title - CAM regime Controlled Active Motion Flexor Tendon Injury Stage 1a
Description - You have injured the tendons which bend your finger(s) into a fist. These have been repaired but you must take care with them. Please follow the instructions in this leaflet carefully and ask your therapist if you are unsure about anything.Title - Carpal Bone (Hand) Fracture Futura Splint 6 Weeks
Description - This is a follow up leaflet to your recent telephone consultation with the fracture care team explaining the ongoing management of your injury. Your case has been reviewed by an Orthopaedic Consultant (Bone Specialist) and a Physiotherapist.Title - Chair based exercises
Description - Complete all exercises whilst sitting in a safe and stable chair.Title - Clavicle Fracture (Adults)
Description - This normally takes between six to twelve weeks to heal. During this period, it is important that you follow the rehabilitation plan on the following page. Following your rehabilitation plan will help to prevent further injury and help to improve your function.Title - Community Intermediate Care Team (CICT)
Description - You have received this booklet as you have been referred to the Community Intermediate Care Team (CICT) for a therapy assessment. This means that a health or social professional has identified that you may have therapy goals, which need to be assessed by a member of our therapy team. The team is a multi-disciplinary service, with a primary role of promoting independence in people 18+. Referrals are accepted for anyone registered with a St Helens GP.Title - Corticosteroid Injection for MSK conditions
Description - A steroid injection can be given to help reduce pain and swelling in a joint or the surrounding soft tissue. Therefore reducing pain. There may be some pain following the injection, but this usually wears off within a couple of hours. Occasionally there can be an increase in pain for 24-48 hours after the injection. This should then settle in a couple of days. Most people experience reduction in pain in the first 24 hours, however this can take up to 2 weeks to resolve.Title - Discharge Advice Leaflet for Patients Discharged To Treatment Centre
Description - If you have a dressing on your wound(s) please keep this clean, and dry. If you are confident to do so, this can be removed at 10 days, otherwise please contact your local treatment centre for an appointment to remove your dressing at about 10 days. Please see separate leaflet for contact numbers for your local treatment centre.Title - Dizziness and Vestibular rehabilitation
Description - “Dizziness” is a general term to explain the feeling we have when there is something wrong with our sense of balance. Many people who experience dizziness find it difficult to explain exactly how it makes them feel. For example, some people who feel dizzy say they feel light-headed, giddy or off balance.Title - Elbow & Wrist exercises
Description - Elbow Exercises and Wrist ExercisesTitle - Exercises Following Transfemoral (Above Knee) Amputation
Description - This sheet has been designed to help you remember the exercises that you have been taught by your therapist. All of the exercises should be done slowly and smoothly. If you feel any pain, stop and tell your therapist or doctor.Title - Exercises Following Transtibial (Below Knee) Amputation
Description - This sheet has been designed to help you remember the exercises that you have been taught by your therapist. All of the exercises should be done slowly and smoothly. If you feel any pain, stop and tell your therapist or doctor.Title - Facial exercises
Description - Facial Exercises leafletTitle - Helping your Ankle to Recover After a Fracture
Description - This leaflet gives you advice and exercises to help your ankle recover after your fracture. Now that you have had the cast removed it is very important that you gradually try to use your foot and ankle as normally as possible. At first your ankle will feel stiff and possibly painful. This is because it has been held in one place by the plaster.Title - Instructions for Semont manoeuvre
Description - An assessment has identified that you have benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, which is causing your dizziness. This can be treated successfully in several ways, for example the Semont manoeuvre or Epley manoeuvre. Your clinician has advised that the Semont manoeuvre will treat the dizziness you are experiencing. The manoeuvre is for you to complete at home, as directed by your clinician. This will help to reposition the calcium crystals within the semi-circular canals in the ear and will improve your symptoms considerably over the next few days.Title - Looking After Yourself Following Perineal Trauma
Description - Management of symptomsTitle - Metacarpal Fracture(s) Buddy Strapping
Description - This is a follow up leaflet to your recent telephone consultation with the fracture care team explaining the ongoing management of your injury. Your case has been reviewed by an Orthopaedic Consultant (Bone Specialist) and a Physiotherapist.Title - Metacarpal Fracture(s) Buddy Strapping & Futura Splint
Description - This is a follow up leaflet to your recent telephone consultation with the fracture care team explaining the ongoing management of your injury. Your case has been reviewed by an Orthopaedic Consultant (Bone Specialist) and a Physiotherapist.Title - Metacarpal Fracture(s) Futura Splint
Description - If you are worried that you are unable to follow this rehabilitation plan, if after six weeks you are still experiencing significant pain, swelling or having difficulty moving your hand or fingers, if you are experiencing pain or symptoms other than at the site of the original injury or surrounding area, or if you have any questions, then please contact us for advice using the contact details on the back of this booklet.Title - Metatarsal Fracture(s) Partial Weight Bearing
Description - If you are worried that you are unable to follow this rehabilitation plan, are experiencing pain or symptoms other than at the site of the original injury or surrounding area, or have any questions, then please contact us for advice using the contact details on the back of this booklet.Title - Neck and Torso Exercises
Description - Exercises for neck and torso.Title - Peripheral Nerve Injuries
Description - The peripheral nervous system links the signals sent from your brain and spinal cord to your muscles for movement, and skin for sensation (feeling). If there is an injury to any of these nerves in can lead to a loss of movement and/or sensation. The area of loss of sensation or movement depends on which nerve is damaged and where it is damaged.Title - Reablement Team Chair Stretches
Description - This leaflet shows chair stretch exercises.Title - Rheumatology MDT Foot clinic
Description - The aim is to help you understand and manage your foot problem.Title - Shoulder exercises
Description - Shoulder exercises Patient information leaflet.Title - Stage 2 exercises following total hip replacement
Description - The following exercises have been identified by your therapist to further enhance your progression and rehabilitation following your total hip replacement. Some of these exercises may replace certain exercises taught to you earlier on following surgery. Your therapist will advise which of these exercises you should be continuing with.Title - Supracondylar Elbow Fracture (Children)
Description - During this healing period, it is important that your child follows the rehabilitation plan on the following page. Following the rehabilitation plan will help to prevent further injury and help to improve your child’s function and use of their arm.Title - Third- and Fourth-Degree Tears
Description - For some women, a tear that happens at delivery may be deeper than average and extend into the muscle that surrounds and controls the anus (this muscle is known as the anal sphincter). Tears like this are known as “third- or fourth-degree tears” (also known as an obstetric anal sphincter injury/OASI). They happen in up to 6 out of 100 births (6%) for first time mothers and less than 2 in 100 births (2%) of births for women who have had a vaginal birth before.Title - Thoracic / Lumbar spinal fractures and soft tissue injuries
Description - This is an injury to the bone (a break, also known as a fracture) or soft tissues in your mid to lower back. A clinician will have explained the cause of your injury. Most are caused by a specific traumatic event and you will be aware of how this happened.Title - Wheelchair Hire
Description - This leaflet lists suppliers for wheelchair hire. - Tissue Viability
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
Title - Hip/Knee Replacement Follow-Up Therapy
Description - After your stay in hospital on the orthopaedic ward following hip or knee replacement surgery, you may have some muscle weakness and difficulty moving certain joints. You may be using walking aids such as crutches or a frame and be unable to walk as far as you normally would. You may also feel you are not back to your normal, day-to-day activities.Title - Knee Replacement Class
Description - As an important part of your rehabilitation following your knee replacement surgery, you are invited to attend the Knee Replacement Class to help you achieve the best outcome. You will be invited to the class soon after discharge from hospital. At times, there may be a waiting list to join the class. If so, you will be offered a 1:1 appointment whilst waiting for a space to become available in the class. This will be determined by your therapist.Title - Stage 2 exercises following total hip replacement
Description - The following exercises have been identified by your therapist to further enhance your progression and rehabilitation following your total hip replacement. Some of these exercises may replace certain exercises taught to you earlier on following surgery. Your therapist will advise which of these exercises you should be continuing with.Title - Thoracic / Lumbar spinal fractures and soft tissue injuries
Description - This is an injury to the bone (a break, also known as a fracture) or soft tissues in your mid to lower back. A clinician will have explained the cause of your injury. Most are caused by a specific traumatic event and you will be aware of how this happened.Title - Wheelchair Hire
Description - This leaflet lists suppliers for wheelchair hire. - Treatment Rooms
