The Ability Therapy Place Physiotherapy services caters for wide range of treatment services comprising of:
- Electrotherapy (Stimulation, Ultrasound, InfraRed, Diathermy etc)
- Manual Therapy (manipulation and mobilization)
- Mechano-Therapy (Traction)
- Heat Therapy and Cryotherapy
- Therapeutic Exercise
- Exercise Prescription
At ability we have invested in provision of contemporary services at the proximity of your home, workplace or rather at a community gathering that is comprehensive and of a world-class experience
we provide state of art, delivered to your doorstep and assist our clients to reach their rehabilitation potential. Our dynamic and multidisciplinary team provides individualized therapy programs. By applying best practice guidelines in a supportive dignified and compassionate manner, we treat individuals of all ages in their homes, in convalescent care and schools that support special education units. This is a client centred approach to treatment that also incorporates training on self-management.
Our mobile healthcare plans focus on human function, movement and maximizing potential. Ultimately, these programs play into reduction of pain and correcting dysfunction and injury. It covers sports injuries, massage therapy, orthopaedic injuries, motor vehicle accidents, work related injuries, post-surgery therapy, sprains and strains, and custom orthotics and braces.
Technologies
The Ability Therapy Place Mobile Clinic is a state of the art mobile unit equipped with
- Electric equipment like subcutaneous stimulators, a therapeutic ultrasound machine, spine traction kits and faradic nerve stimulators programmed to be used on-the-go.
- It is equipped with muscle and joints strengthening machines like treadmills, static bicycle and cross-trainer set to provide satisfactory muscle strengthening therapy services.
- For respiratory rehabilitation, the unit is equipped with a sterile area for secluded and personalized treatment services like drainage of congested chest cavity, tuberculosis treatment, equipped with various respiratory masks, a nebulizer and oxygen supply cylinder for any eventualities.
- The unit also doubles up as a fully-loaded ambulance with EEG and ECG machines for patient monitoring during transport to hospital.
The Ability neural rehabilitation program caters for a wide range of patients and conditions including:
- Stroke patients.
- Motor vehicle accident patients and in the recent past motorbike accident patients.
- Individuals maimed from man-made disaster like collapsed buildings.
- Terrorism survivors – individuals maimed by bullets and explosives.
- Children with developmental disorders and adults with acquired developmental disorders.
Our therapy team specializes in assessment of patient with newly diagnosed and existing neurological conditions like hypoxic brain injuries, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries. Symptoms vary greatly but generally, our experience has taught us to look out for physical symptoms like weakness, difficulty with coordination and changes in sensation. Cognitive symptoms we look out for include reduced memory, poor problem solving, concentration spans and difficulty multitasking. Speech symptoms include slurred speech, difficulty understanding people and changes in social communication skills. We work with you to identify areas of need and chart a tailored rehabilitation program.
Our speech rehabilitation caters for the needs of persons with speech impairments and challenges as a result of varied and complex causes including head injuries, post-surgery care, ailments like multiple sclerosis and developmental disorders.
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With the end user in mind, we fashion orthopaedic devices like splints, prosthetics and orthotics to replace missing joints and extremities or to support a damaged bone. Most of our patients are victims of disease, infamy and accidents. We fabricate these devices from stainless steel and titanium alloy for strength and durability with a plastic coating that acts as an artificial cartilage. The devices will enable you to carry out daily personal and professional tasks with ease, confidence and independence. Our services also cater for assistive aids and equipment like crutches, wheelchairs, walking and leading sticks, reachers and dressing kits for zipping, buttoning and belting.
This is a product for expectant mothers aimed at building confidence in her ability to give birth. Our program takes you through safe approaches to pregnancy, detecting danger signs, the pros and cons of natural and caesarean delivery as well as early parenting. These classes play a pivotal role in assisting expectant mothers to understand how to cope with pain using relaxation techniques that facilitate easy labour and ensure comfort.
Our classes serve as a resource for information on what to expect and available choices during childbearing years. The techniques are well researched and based on the best medical evidence available. The classes play a crucial role in reducing the use of unnecessary interventions whilst improving the overall outcomes for mothers and babies
We operate a sports rehabilitation and education unit for sportsmen and women engaged in field, track and indoor sports. Our understanding of sports related injuries is anchored on many hours spent working with athletes to remedy injuries and soothe pain using a combination of rehab techniques and education to enable our clients get back in the game.
These programs include dryland and hydrotherapy treatments. Our professionals promote health and fitness as a way of life. This enables them to easily relate and interact with athletes during assessments, care treatment programs and formulating future prevention plans.
A section of our events sports rehabilitation unit provides an equipped mobile medical clinic and ambulance with qualified personnel for national charitable public and professional sports events like the Mater Heart Run, Standard Chartered Marathon, the first Lady’s Half Marathon. This service is also available for corporate organizations, sports bodies and education institutions. We accompany you during your team building exercises, sports days and competitions to cater for any emergencies that may arise.
For corporate organizations that conduct periodic team building and sports exercises, we provide a state of the art sports mobile clinic and ambulance for these events. The unit accompanies corporate organizations and sports bodies to competition venues to cater for emergencies that may arise at these sporting events. This service also includes emergency evacuations.
We operate a sports rehabilitation and education unit for sportsmen and women engaged in field, track and indoor sports. Our understanding of sports related injuries is anchored on many hours spent working with athletes to remedy injuries and soothe pain using a combination of rehab techniques and education to enable our clients get back in the game.
These programs include dryland and hydrotherapy treatments. Our professionals promote health and fitness as a way of life. This enables them to easily relate and interact with athletes during assessments, care treatment programs and formulating future prevention plans.
A section of our events sports rehabilitation unit provides an equipped mobile medical clinic and ambulance with qualified personnel for national charitable public and professional sports events like the Mater Heart Run, Standard Chartered Marathon, the first Lady’s Half Marathon. This service is also available for corporate organizations, sports bodies and education institutions. We accompany you during your team building exercises, sports days and competitions to cater for any emergencies that may arise.
For corporate organizations that conduct periodic team building and sports exercises, we provide a state of the art sports mobile clinic and ambulance for these events. The unit accompanies corporate organizations and sports bodies to competition venues to cater for emergencies that may arise at these sporting events. This service also includes emergency evacuations.
The Ability cardiac rehabilitation is a program of exercises; diet regimes and informative sessions that assist individuals get back on their feet after a cardiac arrest or procedure. We provide you with support and advice to enable a thorough understanding of your condition, facilitate recovery, promote lifestyle change and lower the risk of future heart problems.
This unit also caters for weight management, hypertension and diabetes. On your recovery journey, we guide you on the danger signs to look out for. Working with top nutritionists, you will learn about appropriate foods and how to prepare them. Our physical activity program is informed by a thorough evaluation before training commences. We also provide counselling to help you cope with depression, anger and stress common during recovery
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Education and recreational toys are a terrific way for instructing and promoting intellectual, emotional and physical development for children with cognitive challenges and learning disabilities. We advise and supply from a wide range of toys that stimulate cognitive functions during play. Our toys are available at reasonable prices and made specifically to suit your child’s gender, age and area of need. Learn from us how to immerse your child into beneficial play activities with measurable milestones for instance the development of basic principles of shapes or understanding rudimentary hand-eye coordination.
Knowledge and skills development is a continuous process and Abity Therapy Place values this essential aspect by promoting its employees for continuous development while involving others in the rehabilitative sector.
Clients facing a similar problem and require to be enlighten on the same we make arrangement for public education and empowerment at our facility.
It is service rendered to enable a child process, organize and interpret sensory information to facilitate comfortable and secure interaction with the environment for appropriate respond to situations and commands.
Condition we treat:
- Sensory processing disorders
- Vestibular disorders
- Proprioception Disorders
- Learning disorders and disabilities
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Ability neurodevelopmental clinic evaluates treats and cares for children with condition related to development of nervous system so as to cater for the child wellbeing in the family, community and society.
Condition we treat:
- Autism Disorders
- Behavioural Concerns
- Cerebral Palsy
- Developmental Delays
- Hypoxic brain injuries
- Tourette syndrome
Ability Place provides specialized focused skilled in treatment and splinting for a wide range of hand and upper extremity conditions including acute post-op procedure and traumatic conditions.
Splinting is available for many conditions such as Dequarvain’s Tenosynovitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Volar plate injuries, Arthritis resting splints etc.
Physiotherapy can play a vital role in the prevention and management of the physical discomforts and problems that can arise from the way in which the body adapts and changes during pregnancy and after childbirth.
Hormonal changes, altered body shape and weight increase can place abnormal loading stresses on parts of a woman’s body, which can lead to significant discomfort and altered function, with even basic tasks such as sitting and walking.
INCONTINENCE MANAGEMENT
We provide continence clinic to educate and treat the increasing burden caused by incontinence through specialized therapeutic Kegell Exercises and advice in daily life changes.
LAMAZE CLASSES
Our professionals provide the psycho-prophylactic service to prepare mothers for pregnancy with providing adequate knowledge about pregnancy, birth and parenting to enhance health promotion.
It is also a means by which fitness and being physically active is promoted among pregnant mothers through appropriate exercise prescription including;
- Antenatal Exercises
- Postnatal Exercises
- Exercise post caesarean section
School Placement Assessment
Due to diversity and uniqueness in schools and teaching curriculum we offer assessment for placement of a child into a suitable position and purchase of appropriate learning equipment as well as identify how much a child knows, skills mastered by the child and if ready for advancement to the next level.
Disability Assessment
Disability assessment is vital in understanding how illness or disability would affect your daily life. As well as initiate an early management to prevent complication that would interfere with life.
Supportive Aid & Equipment
The most important aspect in prescription of a supportive aid is being provided with the most suitable and effective to the condition with excellent results for recovery. We specialize in, measuring, educating, advising and provision of durable supportive aid and equipment
The musculoskeletal system includes muscles, joints, bones, cartilage, ligaments, fascia, nerves and other associated soft tissues. Problems and injuries can occur to any of these structures, suddenly or over a period of time, and are responsible for causing pain, reduced movement, weakness and a subsequent loss of normal function. Musculoskeletal injury can result from overuse of a muscle, poor posture over time leading to abnormal tissue stresses, sports injuries such as strains and sprains, falls, and direct blows to tissue.
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy plays an important part in the rehabilitation of the body following such an injury, using manual and exercise therapies to affect pain, restore movement, strengthen muscles and encourage normal movement patterns.
Ability Place musculoskeletal clinic provides initial assessment, treatment and evaluation of musculoskeletal disorders as well as prepare for pre-operative surgeries and promotion of recovery post-operative surgeries.
Musculoskeletal disorders concerns include;
- Back Pain
- Neck Pain
- Tendinopathies( lateral epicondylitis, medial epicondylitis)
- Tenosynovitis
- Nerve impingement Syndromes (carpal tunnel syndrome, cubical syndrome)
Biomechanics’ is essentially the analysis of the way in which a body part moves. In physiotherapy, this body part is analyzed in terms of its structure, alignment and movement, alongside the neighboring body parts, and in relation to the rest of the body as a whole. In this way, problems with specific structures can be identified, but also movement abnormalities can be detected which are contributing to the presenting pathology.
Modernization has negatively affected people in the way thing are done particularly in the offices being the largest cause of musculoskeletal ailment diagnosed. Ergonomic clinic is geared to empower and alleviate poor biomechanics at work place for promotion of healthy working.
We provide the following services;
- Ergonomic assessment
- Ergonomic training
- Office disability prevention
It’s a teaching clinic aimed at improving people’s lifestyle regardless of their condition through exercise as a proven medicine to promote fitness, physical activity adherence and healthy active lives. They include;
- Hypertension exercise program
- Diabetic exercise program
- Obesity exercise program
- Wellness/gym
Chest physiotherapy involves physical techniques to help remove excess mucus from respiratory passages and improve breathing. The goal is to help patients breathe more freely and get more oxygen through the blood stream into all parts of the body.
Effective treatment for ; Artificial ventilation, Asthma, Bronchitis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Cerebral Palsy, Cystic Fibrosis, Fractured ribs, Pneumonia, Post-operative, Tuberculosis
Treatment aimed at specialized exercise technique to address a condition with professional background on anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and body kinetics so as to facilitate stabilization, strengthen a weak muscle or stretch a tight muscle to maintain a state of physical health.
It is the use of electro-physical agent, Heat therapy or Cryotherapy to aid in alleviation of pain and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.
The electrotherapy treatment modalities include;
- Trancutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (Tens)
- Neuromuscular Electrical Nerve Stimulation (Nmes)
- Interferential Current (Ifc)
- Shortwave Diathermy
- Ultrasound Therapy
- Cryotherapy Therapy
- Infrared Ray Therapy
It is the utilization of mechano-transduction input to help in relieving body tissues from excessive pressure and reducing muscle spasms predisposed on ailing area as a result of muscle guarding during pain
The utilized techniques include;
- Cervical Traction
- Lumbar Traction
It is treatment technique that utilizes skilled hands on strategies to treat a patient condition through assessment, mobilization, manipulation and education in conjunction with exercise in restoring optimum function.
Sports persons and athletes place their bodies under extreme physical demands, often for hours at a time and therefore it’s not surprising that injuries are frequent. The level of intensity at which some train and perform can lead to chronic injuries and complex musculoskeletal problems.
Over-training, inappropriate muscle control and form, poor nutrition, stress, inadequate training zone and poor footwear, can all lead to injury.
Therapeutic intervention can include hands-on soft tissue and joint mobilization / release, postural re-education and training in terms of dance alignment, muscle control and joint stability work, proprioceptive rehabilitation, acupuncture and dance-specific rehabilitation involving drills and technique training.
Clinic aimed at helping athletes understand the occurrence of injury the healing process and find ways to facilitate healing by managing pain and swelling as well as proper progression of return to play.
Areas covered include;
- Kinesiology Taping
- Explanation of injury occurrence
- Treatment and exercises based on your injury and needs
- Written exercise program at home
- Advice and consideration on return to play