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: Milan Shah

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.

Referrals from GPs

We only accept referrals for orthotics via the local community MSK service.

This means GPs cannot refer directly to the service using the electronic referrals service (eRS).

To refer a patient in Brent, Ealing or Harrow for orthotics, refer them to the local community MSK service, where they will be assessed and triaged for treatment:

• For patients in Brent and Harrow, refer to the  North West London community MSK service with Cora Health 
• For patients in Ealing, refer to  community MSK at West London Community NHS Trust

Referrals from community MSK hubs

If you work at a community MSK hub and need to refer a patient to our secondary care orthotics service, please send your referral by email to lnwh-tr.orthoticsadmin@nhs.net.