Physical rehabilitation services
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.
Physical rehabilitation services available at these clinics
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
Appointment Costs: PINC & STEEL Physical Rehab
| Initial Consultation (incl GST) | Appointment Length | Follow up appointment (incl GST) | Appointment Length | |
| PINC & STEEL | $135.00 | 60 mins | $95.00 | 45 mins |
| Rehab Physio | $70.00 | 30 mins |
| Program | Cost | Sessions |
| Next Steps* | Fully funded | 10 sessions |
| PaddleOn** | Partially funded | 8 sessions |
*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: 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.
| Initial Consultation | Appointment Length | |
| Initial Assessments | ||
| Standard Initial Home Visit Central suburbs | $250.00 | up to 90mins |
| Outpatient Clinic Initial | $210.00 | up to 90mins |
| Vestibular Outpatient Clinic Initial | $210.00 | up to 90mins |
| Subsequent Visits | up to 60mins | |
| Home Visit Central Auckland Suburbs | $165.00 | |
| Outpatient Clinic Visit | $140.00 | up to 60mins |
| Vestibular Outpatient Visit | $160.00 | up to 60mins |
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.
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