Our patients have a new series of videos to support their rehabilitation at home.

Our physios have just finished a series of videos filmed in physio outpatients which are now on the physio outpatient website. The patient videos cover care in all areas such as pregnancy, patients with knee pain, low back pain, shoulder pain, hip pain and Pilates!

The idea began when Clinical lead physio at HRI, Ali Tooley, started an exercise group for those patients still on the waiting list. The patients were given exercise packs, but the general feedback was that they struggled to remember how to do the exercises.

Following this, Ali suggested patients could video her completely the exercises which then escalated to the physio team createing their own videos for all to use. Although they were effective, the quality wasn't great and so after funding from the CCG, professional videos have been created and are now in the process of being edited ready to upload to the website.

Clinical lead physio at HRI, Ali Tooley, said: "So far the feedback from patients has been extremely positive and they are finding the exercise videos really helpful in making sure their technique is spot on. This is crucial for patients to see improvement in their symptoms.

Hopefully in the future we can add more videos to our website to keep helping patients with other pathologies. Currently there are also lots of links to various websites and patient leaflets to help people with musculoskeletal problems, people can to click on the body map to get started in finding ways to help themselves."

For information on how to acces our physio departments newly updated website, please see attachments.