Home Visit Physiotherapy in Reading
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Home visits from chartered physiotherapists in Reading
At The Caring Physio, we provide home visit physiotherapy in Reading, supporting individuals with recovery, mobility, and rehabilitation. Our dedicated team visits you in your own home or care home, reducing the stress of travel while ensuring you receive professional treatment where you feel most at ease. In Reading, our team works closely with families, carers, and GPs to deliver physiotherapy that not only aids recovery but also reassures and encourages, with a focus on post-operative and neurological rehabilitation. Our clinicians treat everything from one-off injuries to complex neurological and musculoskeletal conditions.
We provide a full range of services across Reading, including:
- Physiotherapy dedicated to supporting older adults.
- Recovery support after surgery or hospitalisation.
- Neurological rehabilitation, including for stroke and Parkinson’s.
- Respiratory physiotherapy to improve lung capacity and comfort.
- Relief for joint and muscle pain.
- Care home physiotherapy tailored for residents.
- Support for case management rehabilitation.
Why families in Reading come to us
Why Opt for Our Reading Mobile Physio?
As one of Berkshire’s largest towns, Reading has a diverse community who benefit from accessible healthcare options. Reading blends its biscuit-making heritage and abbey ruins with a modern tech-and-arts buzz at the Thames–Kennet confluence—and our physiotherapy keeps Reading’s riverside community moving through personalised rehabilitation for every age. We provide mobile physiotherapy throughout Reading – from Caversham and Tilehurst to Earley and nearby areas such as Sonning, Woodley, Theale, Shinfield, Pangbourne, Goring.
We also visit families in nearby Wokingham, Henley-on-Thames, Newbury and Bracknell. See all the areas we cover.
Here’s why families in Reading trust us:
- Many years of experience in providing home physiotherapy.
- Flexible scheduling, mornings through evenings, every day of the week.
- Therapy delivered at home or in care homes — no clinic visits required.
- Strong collaboration with healthcare professionals and family members.
- A friendly, values-driven team focused on making therapy enjoyable as well as effective.
Each first appointment includes a comprehensive review and an individualised therapy plan. Book your home physiotherapy session in Reading or nearby vicinity today – and let us help you build strength, confidence, and independence.
What Our Reading Patients Say
Helping you recover using physiotherapy in the comfort of your home
FAQ - Your local questions
Can you help after surgery at the Royal Berkshire Hospital or Circle Reading Hospital?
Yes — post-operative rehabilitation at home is one of our core services. We regularly support people recovering from procedures like knee replacement (TKR) and hip replacement (THR), whether discharged from the NHS Royal Berkshire Hospital or the private Circle Reading Hospital. We aim to start as soon as we can, usually within one to five days of your first call. The early weeks decide a great deal: a new knee needs its bend and its straightening worked on regularly, and confidence on the stairs comes from practising on your own stairs. We do the exercises with you, progress them as the joint settles, and follow the surgeon’s instructions throughout.
My relative is on Emmer Green Ward at the Royal Berkshire Hospital after a fractured hip — can you help them get home?
Yes. Emmer Green Ward is the Royal Berkshire Hospital’s specialist hip fracture unit, and rebuilding strength and confidence after a hip fracture at home is one of our core services. We aim to begin as soon as we can once they are home, usually within one to five days of your first call, continuing the rehabilitation started on the ward — gait re-education, mobility, and reducing the risk of a further fall. Home brings its own tests: a low bed, a narrow bathroom, a step at the back door. We work on those directly, and show family or carers how to help without doing it for them.
Is there private home physiotherapy in Reading without a GP or hospital referral?
Yes — we’re a private service, so no referral is needed from a GP or a hospital. Our physiotherapists visit patients in their own homes across Caversham, Lower Earley, Tilehurst and Woodley, with no waiting list of our own and no clinic to travel to. If you are already waiting for NHS physiotherapy, we can start in the meantime and work alongside it. Contact us directly and we will arrange a first visit as soon as we can, usually within one to five days of your first call. With your permission we write to the GP afterwards, so everyone involved knows what we found.
Do you provide physiotherapy for people living with dementia in Reading?
Yes — dementia care is a particular focus. We help people stay mobile, reduce falls and maintain independence at home across Reading, from Caversham to Woodley, working closely with families every step of the way. We keep things practical. Rather than exercises that have to be remembered, we practise the movements the day already contains — up from the armchair, through to the kitchen, out to the front gate — and repeat them until they are steady. Visits are timed for the part of the day when the person is most alert, and we leave relatives and carers with a short, clear plan for the days in between.
Do you do home visit physio to the suburbs and villages around Reading?
Yes — alongside the town centre, we regularly visit the Reading suburbs of Caversham, Tilehurst, Emmer Green and Lower Earley, as well as nearby villages like Sonning. Where you live makes no difference to the visit itself. You get the same length of session and the same attention, and the work is done on your own stairs, your own garden path and the pavement outside your own door, because those are what you need to manage. If you’re just outside these areas, get in touch and we’ll tell you straight away whether we can help, rather than leaving you to guess.
Can you visit my mother in her care home in Reading?
Yes. Families often come to us after a relative has moved into a care home following a stay at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, when the physiotherapy that had them walking on the ward stops once they’ve settled in. Our Reading physiotherapists visit the home, agree times with the care team, and work one to one on standing, walking and confidence after a fall. We leave the staff with a short note of what helps between visits, keep you informed after each session, and say plainly if we think the work has gone as far as it can.
She has carers coming in twice a day. Would you be duplicating them?
No. We are not another pair of hands at the same tasks — we are there to change what those tasks require. A good deal of our work is with the carers themselves: showing them how a transfer can be done so that she contributes to it, which parts of dressing she should be given time to attempt, when to prompt and when to step in. They are in the house far more than we are, so anything that is going to stick has to work inside their visit rather than alongside it.