Home Visit Physiotherapy in Brighton
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Chartered physiotherapy at home across Brighton
The Caring Physio provides home visit physiotherapy for older people across Brighton and Hove — from Kemptown, Hanover and Queen’s Park to Preston Park, Patcham and Withdean, and along the coast to Rottingdean and Saltdean. We are a private service, so there is no waiting list and no GP referral needed. Brighton is one of our newest areas.
In a city built on a hill, coming to you is not a convenience — it is the point. We work on your steps, your staircase, your street.
Our services in Brighton include:
- Physiotherapy for older adults — mobility, balance, frailty and confidence after a fall.
- Specialist dementia physiotherapy for Alzheimer’s, vascular and Lewy body dementia, at home or in a care home.
- Post-operative rehabilitation after hip and knee replacement or fracture repair, including surgery at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
- Neurological physiotherapy for stroke, Parkinson’s and MS.
- Respiratory physiotherapy for breathlessness, COPD and chest clearance.
- Muscle and joint pain relief for arthritis, back pain and post-fracture stiffness.
- Dedicated care home physiotherapy across Brighton and Hove.
- Rehabilitation for case management clients, including poly-trauma, acquired brain injury and complex post-surgical cases.
Why Brighton families choose The Caring Physio
Brighton is a city that rewards being able to get out — the seafront, the Lanes, a bus that goes everywhere. It is also a city of hills, steps and staircases. Most of the housing was built for people who could take six steps down to the pavement without thinking about it.
That is why people here often become housebound sooner than they should. Someone can be walking well from the kitchen to the sitting room and still not have left the building in three months, because the front steps have become the whole problem. From the outside it looks like a big decline. Usually it is one specific obstacle that nobody has worked on directly.
That is our job: not general fitness, and not a clinic appointment across town, but the actual steps between the sofa and the front door — and then the pavement, and then the promenade, which is flat, sheltered and goes on for miles.
Why Brighton residents choose us:
- A named chartered physiotherapist who visits you at home.
- Chartered physiotherapists specialising in older people.
- Flexible scheduling — mornings, evenings and weekends.
- Therapy at home or in a care home, with no clinic to travel to.
- We work alongside GPs, consultants, carers and community teams.
- Honest advice about what physiotherapy can and cannot achieve.
Every course of treatment begins with a full assessment and a plan built around a goal you choose. Book your home physiotherapy visit in Brighton and take the first step towards confidence and independence.
Coming home from hospital in a city of steps
The Royal Sussex County Hospital on Eastern Road is Brighton’s acute hospital and the region’s major trauma centre, part of University Hospitals Sussex. Rehabilitation and outpatient services for the city run largely through Brighton General on Elm Grove, headquarters of Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs a specialist falls and fracture assessment service.
The Royal Sussex uses Discharge to Assess on its elderly care wards. Rather than keeping someone on a ward while checks are carried out, the assessment happens at home, where the real obstacles are. It is the right way round — waiting on a ward makes people weaker, not stronger.
But it means the front door arrives quickly. A discharge assessment establishes whether someone is safe. It does not, on its own, get them back up their own staircase, or down the six steps to the street, or as far as the seafront.
Independence is not a care plan. It is getting to the toilet on your own, and making your own cup of tea in your own kitchen.
Care calls are timed and task-based, because they have to be. But when everything is done for you, the body quietly stops practising — and in a Brighton house that shows up fast, because almost every useful thing is on the other side of a step.
A hospital stay takes confidence as well as strength, and confidence only comes back by doing the thing. So we take positive, considered risks with you, and stay alongside you while you do it: getting to the toilet on your own, walking through to make yourself a hot drink, managing the steps down to the garden. Not instead of the assessment — after it.
Where we fit in
Once you are home
Discharge to Assess gets you home safely. We are the weeks of practice that come after it.
Your stairs, not a gym’s
Your staircase, your bathroom door, your six front steps. No clinic can rehearse those.
No referral, no waiting
You contact us directly. No GP, no consultant, no list.
As far as the seafront
The promenade is flat and sheltered. For a lot of people it is the goal worth the stairs.
Areas we cover in and around Brighton
- Brighton city centre
- Hove
- Kemptown
- Hanover
- Preston Park
- Fiveways
- Withdean
- Hollingbury
- Patcham
- Hangleton
- Portslade
- Rottingdean
- Ovingdean
- Saltdean
- Woodingdean
- Peacehaven
Brighton and Hove is one of our newest areas, and we are covering it from our Sussex team. If you are just outside these areas — towards Lewes or along the coast — call us anyway and we will tell you honestly whether we can reach you.
Helping you recover using physiotherapy in the comfort of your home
FAQ - Your local questions
Can you help my relative come home from the Royal Sussex County Hospital?
Yes — it is one of the most common reasons families call us. The Royal Sussex County Hospital on Eastern Road is Brighton’s acute hospital, and its elderly care wards use Discharge to Assess, so people go home and are assessed there rather than waiting on a ward. That is the right way round. What it does not do on its own is get someone back up their own staircase, or down the front steps to the pavement. We pick up after the assessment and work on exactly those obstacles, in the actual house, week after week.
My mother is managing indoors but hasn’t been out since her fall. Can you help?
This is very common in Brighton, and it is usually the steps rather than the walking. Someone can move perfectly well from room to room and still be housebound, because six steps down to the street stand between them and everything else. We work on the steps themselves, on confidence, and on a goal that means something — for a lot of people that is getting as far as the seafront, where the promenade is flat and sheltered. Ageing Well Brighton & Hove also runs Stay Strong, Stay Steady, Stay Independent, a citywide strength and balance programme that works well alongside what we do.
Is there private home physiotherapy in Brighton without a GP or hospital referral?
Yes. We are a private service, so you do not need a GP or hospital referral and there is no waiting list. You call us directly and we arrange a first visit within days, usually at a time that suits the family as well as the patient. If you would prefer to explore statutory support first, Brighton & Hove City Council’s adult social care team is the place to start, and many families use both.
My father has had a fall and we’re worried about the next one. What can physiotherapy do?
A great deal, and the earlier the better. Falls are rarely just bad luck — strength, balance, footwear, medication and the layout of the house all play a part, and most of those can be changed. We assess all of it in the home where the falls actually happen. Brighton General on Elm Grove, the headquarters of Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, runs a specialist falls and fracture service, and we are often working alongside that rather than instead of it.
Do you visit Rottingdean, Saltdean and Peacehaven?
Yes. Our Brighton cover runs the whole way along the coast — Portslade, Hangleton and Hove to the west, and Ovingdean, Rottingdean, Saltdean and Peacehaven to the east — as well as the city itself. Visits are £93, plus 55p per mile round trip from your physiotherapist’s base. If you are further out, towards Lewes or west of Portslade, call us anyway and we will tell you honestly whether we can reach you.
Can you visit a relative in their care home in Brighton or Hove?
Yes, and we do it regularly. Families often arrange and pay for additional physiotherapy beyond what the home itself provides — a set number of visits after a fall or a hospital stay, or ongoing work to keep someone moving. We visit residents in their own room, work with the home’s staff so that the exercises carry on between visits, and keep the family updated. You can read more about visiting residents in care homes.
Local support in Brighton and Hove
As well as physiotherapy, families often need to know what else is out there. These are local organisations we point people towards.
Ageing Well Brighton & Hove — runs Stay Strong, Stay Steady, Stay Independent, a citywide strength and balance programme, alongside activity groups and befriending. For anyone who has had a fall or has stopped going out, it is the best first call in the city.
Age UK West Sussex, Brighton & Hove — information and advice, befriending and practical support for older people. Their hub is on the ground floor at 95 Queens Road, BN1 3XE, open weekdays 9.30am to 4pm.
Alzheimer’s Society — support for people living with dementia and their families across Brighton and Hove, including local groups and a dementia adviser service.
Hop 50+ — a community centre for over-fifties in Palmeira Square, running the Pit Stop and Hop Stop dementia groups alongside a wider programme of activities.
Brighton & Hove City Council — adult social care is the route into statutory assessment, equipment and care at home. Many families use council support and private physiotherapy side by side.
Care homes in Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove has a large independent care-home sector, alongside homes run by national providers such as Bupa, Hallmark, Country Court, Gold Care Homes and Maven Healthcare. Wherever your relative lives, we can visit them there.
Most of this work is arranged and paid for privately by families — a block of visits after a fall or a hospital stay, or ongoing work to keep someone moving. It sits alongside whatever the home already provides, and we work with their staff so the exercises carry on between our visits. You can read more about additional physiotherapy for residents.
Care home managers in Brighton and Hove — get in touch to discuss regular visiting physiotherapy for your residents.