First Assessment
Free
45 minutes, at home
- Full clinical examination at the patient's home
- The likely cause explained in plain language
- A realistic recovery plan and what it will cost
- No obligation to book any further sessions
The first weeks after a stroke at home are rarely about grand milestones. They are about whether he can reach the bathroom, whether she can hold a cup, and how the family gets to the next hospital appointment. On Tilak Road, where the lanes are narrow and the main road is crowded, that last question can be as hard as the exercises.
Our stroke rehabilitation page describes how recovery is approached in general. This page looks at what home rehabilitation involves when the home and the neighbourhood are as they are around Tilak Road, and where the family fits in.
Getting to appointments and getting home safely
Follow-up visits, scans and blood tests will punctuate the first months. A commercial building such as Hirabaug Business Center, next to the road, is mostly occupied by clinics, and many people living nearby make such trips on foot or by auto-rickshaw. For a person recovering from a stroke, a trip has several separate hurdles: getting down the stairs, crossing to the auto, stepping up into it and sitting down safely, and reversing all of that on return.
The physiotherapist rehearses these steps in your own home first. That might mean practising the move from a chair to standing with the weak side supported, descending the actual staircase with someone beside the patient, and learning how to get in and out of a vehicle without twisting on the weak leg. Family members are shown how to guide without lifting, because pulling on a weak arm can injure the shoulder.
What a home rehabilitation programme usually contains
- Movement of the weaker side. Repeated, task-focused practice, such as reaching, gripping and weight-bearing through the leg, helps the brain relearn control.
- Balance and walking. Standing with support, shifting weight, and short walks with a stick or walker if one is advised.
- Transfers. Bed to chair, chair to toilet and floor to chair, each broken into steps.
- Positioning and tone. How to lie and sit so that the weaker shoulder, hand and foot are protected.
- Daily tasks. Washing, dressing and eating, practised in the room where they happen.
If the stroke has left the person with stiff or painful muscles, manual therapy may help prepare the limb for exercise. For the first outdoor steps, the plan overlaps with elderly physiotherapy because older patients usually need balance and fall prevention built in.
When festival days complicate follow-up
Tilak Road has been closed or restricted for parts of Ganeshotsav in recent years. If a hospital appointment falls in that week, ask the hospital whether it can be moved, and tell us so that we can plan the physiotherapy visit around it. Crowds make a wheelchair or a walking frame hard to use, and a person who is unsteady is better off avoiding them.
Warning signs after a stroke
A new episode of sudden weakness or numbness in the face, arm or leg, trouble speaking, loss of vision, or a severe headache needs an ambulance and an emergency department at once, even if it passes. Chest pain, breathlessness, or a swollen and painful calf also need immediate medical attention. Do not wait for the next physiotherapy session.
To arrange assessment, use the booking page, or read about home physiotherapy on Tilak Road.