Domiciliary physiotherapy

Domiciliary physiotherapy is a physiotherapy treatment given at a home of a patient. We target this services to disable people, with deficits in a self-care. Services can be given maximum for 80 days in the year.

Referral can be obtained by people who suffer from:

• focal brain injury (embolism, stroke)
• hard injury of a central and circular nervous system (5th grade in Rankin scale)
• injury of a spinal cord
• chronic ilnesses (Parkinson, polymyositis, tubers, arthritis)
• degeneration of hip joint or knee joint
• lower extremities injuries.

Domiciliary physiotherapy treatment is offered for the National Health Fund policy holders who are granted referral form the doctor of following specialisation:

• reumatology,
• neurology,
• orthopaedics,
• medical rehabilitaion,
• balneology and physical medicine.

or by a family doctor (referral to the reabilitaion clinic).

Referral for domiciliary physiotherapy treatment needs to provide:

• a stamp of an institution that is issuing the referral (number of a contract wih the NFZ must be included)
• surname, name, PESEL and address of a patient
• diagnosis
• code of a illness in accordence with the ICD- 10 classification
• subscription of disfunctions
• current and passed illnesses (types of medicines, inforamtion on hart pacemaker)
• type of a treatments that are to be applied and areas of the body (quantity and parameters of treatments)
• doctor stamp, signature and date of issue.