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Aged care physiotherapy and OT at home in Frankston

She broke her wrist in June and she still has not been back out to the letterbox, and it is now September.

The fracture healed. That is not the problem. The problem is that for six weeks she did not walk anywhere, and she has come out the other side of it slower, weaker and frightened, and the discharge from the fracture clinic was a piece of paper that said follow up with your GP.

Roughly one in three people who break something in a fall never get back to the level they were at before it. Not because of the break. Because of the six weeks after the break, and because nobody was watching them.

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  • Home Assessments
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What we do and where

Total Health Choice provides physiotherapy, occupational therapy, exercise physiology and speech pathology in people’s own homes in Frankston 3199, Frankston South 3199 and Frankston North 3200. Podiatry and massage therapy are both coming. We also visit Seaford 3198, Karingal 3199, Langwarrin 3910, Cranbourne 3977 and Carrum Downs 3201, We also go past these suburbs, usually another ten kilometres or so. If yours is not on the list, ring and ask.

We come to the house. Nobody with a healing fracture should be organising a lift down the Nepean Highway to get to an appointment.

Private homes, retirement villages, independent living units and residential aged care homes.

Getting back on your feet after a fracture, at home

Our admin team books the visit and takes the details then, including anything the therapist needs to know about getting in. You get a text confirming the date and time.

The physiotherapist, or the exercise physiologist.

The visit runs about an hour, and if we are seeing someone after a fracture we follow the post operative instructions, including weight bearing status and any restrictions, because working past those is how people end up back in hospital.

Then we find out what she has actually stopped doing since the fall. Not the injury. The list. Hanging washing. Getting in the car. Walking to the letterbox. Having a shower without someone in the house. Going out at all.

And we ask about the fear, directly, because fear of falling is a bigger predictor of the next fall than most physical measures are, and it is treatable and almost never treated.

Then we measure. Timed Up and Go. Thirty second sit to stand. Four stage balance test. Walking speed over four metres. Grip strength, particularly relevant after an upper limb fracture. All written down on day one.

And we work out how the fall happened in the first place, because a fracture is the result and the fall is the thing that will happen again if nothing changes.

The occupational therapist.

The OT walks through the house with her. Front step, path, letterbox, which for this client is often the actual goal. Bathroom, shower, toilet height. Bed height. The kitchen and what she is now unable to carry. The path from bed to toilet at night.

The program

Progressive strength work. Real loading, increased week by week, because bone and muscle both respond to load and neither responds to being careful.

Balance work that is hard enough to be worth doing.

Practice of the actual task. If the goal is the letterbox, we walk to the letterbox. If it is getting into the car, we go out to the car.

An occupational therapist for the house, the equipment, and the things she cannot do one handed while the wrist is healing.

An exercise physiologist once the fracture restrictions come off and the goal moves from safe to strong. They can come on board at any time.

The same therapist each visit.

And a monthly progress report to the family with the outcome measures in it, sent out to the care team involved. If the walking speed and the sit to stand are moving, you will see it. If they are not, you will hear why.

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How it gets paid for

Support at Home.

Which replaced Home Care Packages. Ask her provider to call us or we can contact them directly.

Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP).

For smaller amounts before a full package.

Private.

No referral, start this week.

TAC.

If it was a car accident. We do TAC physiotherapy.

Why Frankston families call us

We ring back within thirty minutes on business days.

Fifty of us and mobile since 2011, which for the Frankston end of the line matters, because plenty of providers say they cover the peninsula and then cannot actually staff it.

4.9 from over 200 Google reviews.

Most first visits happen within five business days. We will give you a real date on the phone rather than “we’ll be in touch”.

Every therapist who comes to the house holds a current police check and NDIS worker screening clearance. And you get the same therapist each visit, so it is not a different stranger at the door every fortnight.

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Questions Frankston families ask

Very. And it is the part that usually gets no treatment. Confidence comes back from doing the thing under supervision, not from being told to be careful. That is most of what the first month of the program is.

The fracture clinic’s job finishes when the bone heals. Getting back to walking to the shops is a separate job and nobody at the clinic is doing it. This is the point where most people quietly settle for less than they had.

No. Later is harder, not impossible. Start now rather than at six months.

We come. Frankston 3199, Frankston South 3199, Frankston North 3200, Seaford 3198, Karingal 3199, Langwarrin 3910, Cranbourne 3977 and Carrum Downs 3201.

Yes. We work in transition care and short term restorative care, and those programs are time limited, so getting started early in them matters a great deal.

Usually yes. We do TAC physiotherapy. Ring us with the claim number and we will tell you what is needed.

After the first assessment we will give you a range and a rough end point. Post fracture recovery is one of the clearest cases in this work, and it should finish.

Yes, and independent living units, and residential aged care homes.


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Call 1800 847 847, or submit an enquiry and we will call back within thirty minutes on a business day.

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