What is Muscular Dystrophy and how will this condition affect me?
Muscular dystrophy is a group of genetic disorders causing progressive muscle weakening and degeneration, leading to muscle wasting, loss of mobility, and difficulties with everyday tasks like walking and lifting objects.
How can GNC help?
- Manual Therapy to support pain, mobility and function (massage, dry needling, mobilisation)
- Equipment prescription; gait aids, standing frame, wheelchairs
- Range of motion and mobility training
- Strength training
- Balance training
- Gait training
- Hydrotherapy
- Improved movement quality through task-specific training
- Cardiovascular training
- Strength and mobility training
- Fatigue management
- Functional Electrical Stimulation (RT300 Bike)- managing secondary complications
- Hydrotherapy
- Falls prevention
- Gait training (harnessed or overground)
- Transfer training
- Upper limb rehabilitation
- Home Environment Modifications
- Accommodation and Supports
- Functional retraining including home safety assistive technology
- Carer and family training
- Upper limb rehabilitation
- Assistive technology prescription
- Wheelchair, seating and positioning
- Pressure care management
- Vehicle Modifications
- Carer training
- AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) assessment and prescription
- Voice assessment and therapy
- Speech, language, and communication assessment and retraining
- Social communication support relating to participation in kinder, school, programs and workplace.
- Swallowing assessment and management strategies
- Cognitive-communication rehabilitation
- AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) assessment and prescription
- Communication Partner Training (CPT) for swallowing and communication
- LiteGait
- Saebo
- AAC – Neuronode
- RT 300 Upper Limb and Lower Limb FES Bike
- Theratrainer
- InterX
- X-Sensor Pressure Mapping System
- Vesticam googles
- BiSSkiT software: Biofeed in Strength and Skill Training for swallowing