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’re a private service with no waiting list of our own, and no GP referral is 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 — balance, strength and confidence, especially after a fall.
- Dementia physiotherapy for people with Alzheimer’s, vascular or Lewy body dementia, wherever they live.
- Post-operative rehabilitation after a new hip or knee or a repaired fracture, including surgery at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
- Neurological physiotherapy for people recovering from a stroke or living with Parkinson’s or MS.
- Respiratory physiotherapy for COPD, breathlessness and keeping the chest clear.
- Muscle and joint pain relief for arthritis, back pain and post-fracture stiffness.
- Visiting physiotherapy for care home residents across Brighton and Hove.
- Rehabilitation for case managers’ clients recovering from poly-trauma, acquired brain injury or complex operations.
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 chartered physiotherapist who visits you at home — the same one wherever we can.
- Chartered physiotherapists who work mainly with older people.
- Morning, evening and weekend visits.
- Sessions at home or in a care home; no clinic, no bus across town.
- We keep GPs, consultants, carers and community teams informed and work with them.
- A frank view of what physiotherapy can and can’t do for you.
We begin every course with a full assessment and a plan built towards a goal you set, such as reaching the seafront. Book a home 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 provide the weeks of practice after that.
Your stairs, not a gym’s
Your staircase, your bathroom door, your six front steps: things a clinic can’t recreate.
No referral needed
Just call us. A GP or consultant referral isn’t needed, and there’s no waiting list of our own.
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. Just outside these areas, towards Lewes or along the coast? Call anyway; we’ll be honest about whether we can get to you.
Helping you recover using physiotherapy in the comfort of your home
FAQ - Your local questions
Can you help after a discharge from the Royal Sussex County Hospital?
Yes. Coming home from the Royal Sussex is why many Brighton families first get in touch. Brighton’s elderly care wards at the Royal Sussex 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.
Mum copes indoors but hasn’t left the house since her fall. What can you do?
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’s Stay Strong, Stay Steady, Stay Independent classes also work well alongside what we do.
Is there private home physiotherapy in Brighton without a GP or hospital referral?
Yes. You don’t need a referral from a GP or the hospital, and as a private service we have no waiting list of our own. Just call and we’ll arrange the first visit. We aim to see you as soon as we can, usually within one to five days of your first call. If you’d like to look at statutory support first, Brighton & Hove City Council’s adult social care team can help, and many people combine the two.
Dad has fallen once and we’re afraid it will happen again. What can you do?
Plenty. Most falls have causes that can be worked on: weak legs, unsteady balance, the wrong shoes, medication, or a tricky layout at home. 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. Fees, including mileage, are listed on our FAQ page. Further out, towards Lewes or west of Portslade? Ring and we’ll let you know whether we can reach you.
My aunt will not have strangers in the house. How do you get past that?
Gently, and at her pace. Reluctance is usually about something specific: not wanting to be told what to do, fear of being found to be worse than she admits, or simply being tired of appointments. We ask you beforehand what matters to her, and the first visit is as much a conversation as an assessment, in her own chair with the kettle on. She sees the same physiotherapist wherever we can, so it becomes a familiar face rather than a stranger each time. Most people who were set against it come round once they find the visit is about what they want back. If she still says no, we respect that and tell you so.
She has carers in twice a day. Would you be duplicating what they do?
No. The honest difference is time. A care call is a fixed window with a list to get through, and waiting while somebody takes four minutes to stand is not something that window allows — that is a scheduling reality, not a criticism. Our hour has nothing else in it. We can let her take the four minutes, and then the three, and then the two, which is exactly how standing comes back. What we then hand over is the version that fits inside their visit, so the progress is not lost between ours.
Local support in Brighton and Hove
Beyond physiotherapy, these are the Brighton and Hove organisations we most often suggest to families.
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 a good 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 handles statutory assessments, equipment and care at home, and families often use it alongside private physiotherapy.
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. We can visit your relative in any of them.
Families generally arrange and fund this privately — 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.
Run a care home in Brighton or Hove? Get in touch about regular physiotherapy for your residents.