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  Map of Hillingdon Hospital site (  117KB, pdf)Alderbourne Rehabilitation UnitHillingdon Hospital: Alderbourne Rehabilitation Unit
The Alderbourne Rehabilitation Unit is based at the Hillingdon Hospital site, providing specialist rehabilitation services since 1990. It is a 20 bed unit for post-acute inpatient rehabilitation and planned short stay admissions. The multidisciplinary Unit offers coordinated treatment between physical and occupational therapy, speech pathology and neuropsychology to achieve functional improvement for patients with neurological conditions. Clientele served: Adults with complex disability primarily due to stroke, MS, Spinal injury, Acquired brain injury, and other long term conditions. The unit admits patients from the London Borough of Hillingdon and adjoining areas. ARU also has out patient services such as multidisciplinary clinics, Rehabilitation Medicine clinics and Specialist clinics like spasticity and nurse led clinics. The interdisciplinary team consists of nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, therapy assistants, speech and language therapist and clinical psychologists. The expertise for our staff ensures evidence based practice throughout the service and continued cross therapy learning. The Unit uses assistive technology with generic measures of disability such as a Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and Functional Assessment Measure (FAM), in a goal orientated approach to rehabilitation. The team work closely with the Stroke Assessment Unit teams, to ensure a quality approach to all aspects of rehabilitation. Support Groups and Other Useful Links
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