Orthotics

Our orthotics team treat and rehabilitate you if you need an orthosis to aid your movement, correct a deformity, or relieve your discomfort.

Telephone number: 020 8869 3081
Location: Level 3, main outpatients, Northwick Park Hospital
Division: Integrated medicine
General manager: Raksha Jina

Our orthotics team treat and rehabilitate you if you need an orthosis to:

• aid your movement
• correct a deformity
• relieve your discomfort.

An orthosis is a device used to support, align, prevent or correct deformities and improve movement in parts of your body.

They are designed to treat or relieve a medical condition or disability. In some cases, they can prevent you from developing more disabling conditions.

Orthotics can help provide you with support for a number of conditions, including:

• orthopedics: supporting your joints before and after an operation
• rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis: providing pain relief andaccommodation of deformity through custom bracing and footwear
• stroke: improving your independence and mobility
• elderly medicine: improving your mobility and reducing your chance of falls
• diabetes: reducing ulceration rates
• sports injuries:  helping to rehabilitate your joints
• cerebral palsy: helping contracture prevention, and improving your mobility and independence
• polio limb dysfunction: improving your independence and mobility
• trauma: bracing after an operation or fracture
• vascular complications: providing pressure relief
• ankle replacements: supporting providing pain relief during your rehabilitation
• biomechanical foot dysfunctions: improving your posture and alignment, helping to relieve pain and prevening other joints from deteriorating.

We accept referrals from GPs in Brent, Ealing and Harrow on the e-Referral service.