How we work – Ethelsup Foundation

How we work

Our Physical therapists at Ethelsup Foundation help people maximize their quality of life, looking at physical, psychological, emotional and social wellbeing. They work in the health spheres of promotion, prevention, treatment/intervention, habilitation and rehabilitation.

Our mandate is to foster physiotherapy and rehabilitation aid to the community in order to provide specialist physiotherapy services to people living with neurological conditions including the elderly in our local community. Through drawing on our extensive contacts and expert team, we aim to build an accessible service for those with long term conditions within Mount Darwin, thereby creating a positive and supportive community. A Neurological condition is defined as any condition that affects the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves, for example Stroke, Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis or Parkinson’s Disease.

We have professional physical therapists who are qualified to:

Undertake a comprehensive examination/assessment of the patient/client or needs of a client group
Evaluate the findings from the examination/assessment to make clinical judgments regarding patients/clients
Formulate a diagnosis, prognosis and plan
Provide consultation within their expertise and determine when patients/clients need to be referred to another healthcare professional
Implement a physical therapist intervention/treatment program
Determine the outcomes of any interventions/treatments
Make recommendations for self-management.
Physiotherapists will provide beneficial and cost-effective primary health care for people across the life span with respiratory disease, neurological disorders, and musculoskeletal injuries.
For example, physiotherapy for people in local communities includes:
Management of people with chronic respiratory diseases
Women’s health care especially for women with postnatal complications which are prevalent due to inadequate perinatal care
Rehabilitation for people with musculoskeletal injuries which are prevalent because much of the workforce in our community undertakes heavy physical labour
Management of children with developmental disorders
Rehabilitation for people with neurological disorders such as strokes and spinal cord injuries
Rehabilitation for people with long-term musculoskeletal injuries, multiple trauma, and spinal cord injuries