New weakness, new numbness, or a rapid change in function needs urgent assessment rather than rehabilitation. Also seek urgent care for fever with a pressure sore, or a swollen painful calf which may be a clot.
Intensive stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury and post-surgical rehabilitation, with daily therapy at an intensity difficult to obtain in many countries.
This is among the most worthwhile and most overlooked reasons to travel. Recovery after stroke or spinal injury depends heavily on how much therapy you actually receive, and intensity is precisely what is affordable here.
Free. No obligation. A written opinion within 48 hours.
Rehabilitation outcomes correlate strongly with the total hours of therapy delivered. That is the entire argument for coming here.
That is what an inpatient programme here provides — physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy in structured daily blocks. In many health systems, patients receive a fraction of that.
A four to twelve week block is where meaningful functional change happens. Short admissions rarely produce it.
The same intensity in Europe or North America is unaffordable for most families. Here it is within reach, and that is a genuine difference rather than a marketing claim.
Walking, transferring, feeding, dressing, communicating. Goals are agreed and measured, and progress is reviewed against them rather than described vaguely.
Send a short video of the patient attempting to sit, stand, walk or speak. It tells a rehabilitation physician more than any letter, and it lets us set honest goals before you travel.
What we are asked about most in rehabilitation.
Motor, speech and swallowing rehabilitation — see our stroke page
Mobility, bladder and bowel management, and independence training
Cognitive, physical and behavioural rehabilitation
After joint replacement, spine and cardiac surgery
Function-focused therapy and equipment
Recovery-phase rehabilitation
Prosthetic fitting and gait training
Deconditioning after long intensive care stays
Detailed pages for these are being written. In the meantime send your reports and you will get the same written opinion within 48 hours, from the same clinical team that reviews every case.
Rehabilitation is a programme rather than a procedure. What follows is what a programme contains.
A rehabilitation physician, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and speech therapist assess function and agree specific measurable goals with you and your family. Honest goal-setting is the most important part of the programme, because it determines whether you leave satisfied or disappointed.
Several hours daily of task-specific training — sitting balance, standing, transfers, gait retraining with support as needed. Repetition of functional tasks is what drives recovery, and volume of practice is the variable that matters most.
Retraining the activities of daily life — dressing, washing, eating, writing, using a phone — with adaptations and equipment where function will not fully return. This is what converts physical improvement into actual independence at home.
Assessment and treatment of communication difficulty and unsafe swallowing after stroke or brain injury. Swallowing assessment matters urgently — unsafe swallowing causes pneumonia, which is a leading cause of death after stroke and is preventable with the right diet consistency and technique.
Fitting of prosthetic limbs, braces and splints, and prescription of wheelchairs and equipment suited to the home you are returning to. Made and fitted here at a fraction of Western cost, with training in their use as part of the programme rather than an afterthought.
Ask how many hours per day of each therapy the patient will receive, and on how many days a week. This is the number that determines the result — ask for it specifically.
Not a physiotherapy service alone. Medical oversight manages spasticity, pain, bladder, bowel, mood and complications that otherwise derail a programme.
Whoever cares for the patient at home must be trained during the admission. A programme that does not do this sends people home to deteriorate.
Ask for the therapy timetable in writing before you commit. A centre that cannot produce one is not delivering the intensity it advertises.
Rehabilitation is low risk but not without it. Falls during mobility training, shoulder injury in a weak arm, pressure sores, clots in immobile patients, and aspiration pneumonia from unsafe swallowing all occur and are managed by anticipating them. The larger risk is expectation: rehabilitation improves function but frequently does not restore what was lost, and a programme promising recovery rather than improvement is not being honest with you.
Rehabilitation requires the patient to be able to participate. Uncontrolled infection, heart failure or recent deterioration need treating first.
The acute phase is managed locally. Rehabilitation begins once stable, usually from around two weeks.
We do not arrange stem cell treatment for stroke, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury or brain injury. There is no established evidence it works and it is sold at high prices to desperate families.
Where the imaging and current function make substantial recovery unlikely, we will say so before you spend anything.
A two-week visit will not achieve much. If you cannot commit to four weeks or more, the value is limited and we will tell you.
We would rather set honest goals you achieve than promise recovery you will not get. That conversation happens before you book, not after.
A patient travelling for intensive rehabilitation three months after a stroke.
Usually not. Most improvement occurs in the first three to six months, but meaningful gains continue for a year and beyond with sustained therapy, and patients who have had little therapy often improve considerably even years later. Send a video and we will give you an honest assessment rather than a general answer.
Ask for the timetable in writing — this is the question that matters most. The programmes we work with provide several hours daily, six days a week, of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy as needed. That intensity is the reason to travel and it is what you should verify.
We do not arrange it for stroke, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury or brain injury. There is no established evidence that it works for these conditions, and clinics offering it to international families charge a great deal for something unproven. Your money achieves far more spent on intensive conventional therapy.
That depends on the injury, how much function remains, and how long it has been. We will give you an honest view from the imaging and the video rather than an encouraging one. Where walking is not a realistic goal, there are other goals — transferring, self-care, communication — that transform daily life and are worth pursuing.
Yes, and you should. Whoever will care for the patient at home is trained during the admission in transfers, exercises, positioning and equipment use. Programmes where the family is not trained send people home to lose what they gained. We arrange accommodation nearby for attendants.
You leave with a written exercise and equipment programme that a local therapist can continue, and we arrange remote review with the rehabilitation team. Continuing therapy at home is what preserves and extends the gains — an intensive block followed by nothing loses much of the benefit.
Related pages: Stroke · Spine surgery · Neurosurgery · Orthopaedics and joint replacement · All treatments
Send the imaging and discharge summary, and a short video of the patient attempting to sit, stand, walk or speak. That video tells us more than any letter.
Your reports go directly to our medical team. We do not share your records with hospitals until you tell us to.
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