Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Gym & Plinth Room

The Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Gym is fitted with state-of-the-art exercise and strength and conditioning equipment to allow students to integrate exercise therapy into the management of their patients.

Clinical examples include patients who are recovering from injury, undergoing post-surgical rehabilitation, or who are seeking to optimise their health and wellbeing across the lifespan.

• Exercise balls: Used for a variety of purposes, including in contemporary rehabilitation and fitness settings.
• Parallel bars: Used in rehabilitation to help patients re-learn to walk, regain lower-body strength following injury, and recover from illness or surgery.
• Pilates reformer: Used to recover from injury and to improve athletic performance. Pilates reformers develop core stability, muscle endurance, peripheral joint stability, muscle strength, balance, flexibility, and coordination.
• Resistance training equipment: Used to prescribe and monitor exercises to rebuild physical strength, endurance and optimise performance. The gym includes a variety of pin-loaded and free-weight equipment commonly used in rehabilitation, and strength and conditioning settings.
• Steps: Used in rehabilitation to improve mobility, and to teach patients to safely negotiate steps using mobility aids such as crutches and walking sticks.
• Treadmills & stationary bikes: Used to build endurance, stamina, and cardio-respiratory health.

• Hospital beds: Allows students to develop the skills needed to safely assess and treat patients in a hospital-like environment.
• Plinths: Modern electronic height-adjustable physiotherapy ‘treatment tables’, frequently used in the assessment and treatment of patients. Within the Plinth Room, our students learn and practice physiotherapy techniques in a simulated real-world clinical environment.