Physical rehabilitation services    

What is it?

Cancer treatments can cause a variety of problems that interfere with your life in physical, emotional and practical ways. These can include pain, fatigue, muscle weakness, restricted movement and deconditioning.

Signs that you may need rehabilitation services include:

• Feeling weaker now than when you were initially diagnosed
• Experiencing pain or soreness
• Feeling more tired than you were before you were diagnosed
• Having muscular or joint problems or reduced mobility
• Having difficulty recovering from treatment and doing the things you used to do
• Uncertain about how much to exercise or how best to exercise
• Struggling with memory problems and difficulty concentrating or
• If you want to continue or return to work

Expert advice and guidance from a cancer rehabilitation physiotherapist may improve health and your ability to function as normally as possible more quickly and to a greater degree. It could help you reduce fatigue, pain and prevent the development of long term side effects.

Physical rehabilitation services program

How can a rehabilitation physiotherapist help?

Our cancer rehabilitation physiotherapists will assess you individually for physical impairments and affects of your treatment. They then work with you to create a rehabilitation program to suit your stage in recovery, type of cancer, and level of fitness.

Our physiotherapists will help guide, support and encourage you through each phase of your treatment and recovery. They will teach you what you can do to get stronger again and help you understand why your body is reacting to the treatments in certain ways. They will provide information to help you feel more in control of your body and life again.

Benefits of physical rehabilitation services program

While rehabilitation can’t eliminate cancer assaults on the body, it can certainly decrease and decelerate the impact on function, strength and stamina. The aim is to allow people to live to their own maximum potential, performing at the limit of their physical and mental capacity with control and independence whenever possible. Problems picked up early by a cancer rehabilitation physiotherapist can prevent long-term problems developing.

• Optimise physical and functional recovery
• Decreasing pain and muscular tension
• Help regain strength and mobility
• Increase energy levels and improve breathing
• Strengthen core muscles and improve posture
• Improve scar formation
• Decrease nausea and constipation
• Improve physical functioning and maintain independence
• Reclaim body confidence and control
• Reduce treatment related side effects
• Shift focus from illness to wellness
• improve quality of life

PINC & STEEL

Our team of PINC & STEEL Cancer rehabilitation physiotherapists run individualised cancer rehabilitation sessions through private clinics throughout New Zealand.

A certified PINC & STEEL cancer rehabilitation physiotherapist in the closest clinic to your home address will then contact you to book an appointment. https://www.pincandsteel.com/find-a-physio/The first session is for an hour and includes an assessment of your needs and issues and a rehabilitation plan will then be devised for you.

Cancer rehabilitation can include:

• Manual physiotherapy
• Musculoskeletal and functional assessments
• Scar management
• Joint mobilisation
• Pelvic floor retraining
• Strength and conditioning training
• Fatigue management
• Exercise prescription
• Integration back to work, exercise classes, gym or sport
• Scar management
• Pain relief
• Breathing technique and education
• Individualised Clinical Pilates
• Exercise prescription
• Physical and functional assessments 

Return to Form

Owner and Physio Zee Sharif has created a holistic vision for helping cancer clients at Return to Form. The diverse skill set of the team offers physiotherapy, massage, acupuncture, nutrition, pilates as well as personal training. In addition to any hands-on treatment, the clinics have an exercise studio.

 Each therapist at Return to Form believes that there's more to be done once the cancer is gone. There should also be an intense focus on returning to work, sports, and social activities post-treatment with minimal or no side effects of the interventions that beat the cancer.

 Get back to living life to its fullest. Visit our website for more information on how 1-1 physiotherapy can help you You can also call us at 09 551 4460 or send an email to [email protected]

Cancer rehabilitation can include:

• Scar management
• Lymphoedema treatment
• Lymphatic drainage massage
• Pain relief
• Musculoskeletal and functional assessments
• Fatigue management
• Exercise prescription
• Physical and functional assessments 
• Pilates and cardio exercises
• Resistance training

Neurological Rehabilitation for Neuro-oncology conditions

What does Neurological Rehabilitation involve:

If you have had cancer of the brain or spinal cord you may be left with neurological deficits or symptoms. These include:

• Weakness in one or both sides of the body
• Sensory loss or change
• Cognitive or memory changes
• Speech changes
• Fatigue
• Reduced balance
• Reduced coordination or ataxia
• Visual and perceptual changes

These symptoms can be debilitating and have a big impact on your day to day life. At Rope Neuro Rehab we have a team enthusiastic and forward thinking specialist Neurological Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Speech and Language therapists who have vast experience working with people with neurological conditions and more specifically with Neuro-Oncology.

We believe in working together with the client and their Whānau and carers to ensure clinically evident and individualised rehabilitation plans. We work with our clients in the Clinical setting, community setting and supportive care settings.

Throughout all the stages of your cancer care, our team are able to consider effects and implications of having your cancer treatment and provide thorough assessment and treatment that is targeted towards your goals. Neurological Physiotherapy aims to stimulate the nervous system through therapeutic activities such as exercise. The exercises are designed to help retrain the brain and encourage more normal movement patterns. Treatment plans are catered to each individual depending on the symptoms they experience and focus on improving cardiovascular function, strength, ease of movement, quality of movement, balance and over all coordination.

We offer a private service both in the community and clinic setting and are ACC registered. We offer a no wait list service, flexible hours and functional client-centered goals at the intensity required.

We have access to a range of specialised rehab equipment used to treat neurological symptoms including Electrical Stimulation for weak muscles and prescription of orthotics.

We assess and treat a wide range of neurological conditions – please see our website for more information.

We are able to provide specific rehabilitation management in the location best suited to the client.

Home visiting - Treatment in a client’s familiar surroundings can enhance skill transfer and retention of training and eliminates the need to consider transportation.

Outpatient clinic - Our outpatient clinic gives the opportunity for community progression, use of specialised neurological equipment, with level access. 

Groups - Clinic based high amplitude Parkinson’s rehabilitation group - provide a supervised continuation of exercises in a supportive setting.

Clinic located at Unit 6, 19 Edwin Street, Mt Eden, Auckland, 1024. 

Gym Space located Unit 18, 23 Edwin Street, Mt Eden, Auckland, 1024.

Within our clinic and new Gym we have several clinic rooms as well as a large gym and a smaller gym space over 2 areas.  The clinic and gym have wheel chair access and parking onsite.  Contact us on [email protected] or 096238433 or 021753279

Appointment Costs: PINC & STEEL Physical Rehab

*The initial consultation includes a physical and functional assessment and an individualised rehabilitation plan.

**PaddleOn now is partially funded. There is a slight surcharge on the 8 sessions ($60 in total).

Referrals to your local PINC & STEEL provider can be made here. 


Appointment Costs: Return to Form Physical Rehab

Visit Return to Form for more information or call 09 551 4460.

Appointment Costs: Neurological Rehab

Home visit rates quoted are for people who live in Auckland's Central Suburbs, for those in other suburbs the appointments increase in price depending on the distance from the clinic.

Insurance:

Your health insurance provider may cover these physiotherapy services with a certified cancer rehabilitation physiotherapist. If you are unable to afford rehabilitation the Pinc & Steel Cancer Rehabilitation Trust provides funding for our services.

Click on the link below and fill in the form.

www.pincandsteel.com/programs/funding-application