Home Visit Physiotherapy in Windsor
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Physiotherapy at home in Windsor, Eton and Old Windsor
We provide home-visit physiotherapy across Windsor, Eton, Datchet and Old Windsor.
Windsor’s homes spread a long way from the castle: Clewer and Dedworth out to the west, Old Windsor and Datchet along the river, Eton across the bridge. Some families ring us while a parent is still on the older people’s unit at Wexham Park, or the week after a new knee at Heatherwood in Ascot. Others ring earlier, when Mum in Clewer has stopped walking to the shops, or Dad in Eton has started holding on to the furniture. Losing the confidence to leave your own front door is a hard thing to admit, and hard to watch. This is the work we do, in your home, at your pace.
Our services in Windsor include:
- Older people’s physiotherapy — steadier on your feet indoors and out, and less reliant on a helping hand.
- Dementia physiotherapy — walking and standing kept going with calm, familiar practice.
- Post-operative rehabilitation — after a hip or knee replacement at Heatherwood, or a fracture treated at Wexham Park.
- Neurological physiotherapy — after a stroke, or with Parkinson’s or MS, carried on at home once hospital rehabilitation ends.
- Respiratory physiotherapy — breathing control and stamina for COPD and breathlessness.
- Muscle and joint pain — arthritis, back pain and stiffness, treated where you live.
- Care home physiotherapy — one-to-one sessions for residents in Windsor’s care homes.
- Rehabilitation for case management clients — longer programmes after serious injury, reported to your case manager.
Why families in Windsor come to us
Windsor and Maidenhead has grown, and grown older. The borough had around 153,500 people at the 2021 census, up 6.2% in ten years, and its average age rose from 40 to 42 (Office for National Statistics). For a lot of families here that means a parent who wants to stay in the house they have lived in for decades, and a son or daughter working out how to make that possible.
Why people in Windsor rely on us:
- Chartered physiotherapists, HCPC registered and members of the CSP.
- We come to your home or care home in Windsor, so nobody has to arrange a lift.
- Four physiotherapists cover Windsor between them, with backgrounds in orthopaedics, community rehabilitation and neurological rehabilitation.
- Friendly and unhurried. Every visit is a full hour, in your own front room.
- Your family, carers and GP are kept in the picture, with your say-so.
- We tell you honestly what we think can change, and when we have done what we can.
The first visit lasts a full hour. A form comes out beforehand, so your physiotherapist arrives knowing the history and the medication, and the time goes on watching how you move around your own home and starting treatment. We are looking for the thing that is really in the way. Often that is confidence or pain, not strength. You finish with one goal you have chosen and the first steps towards it, and if family or carers are there, we show them how to help.
Your physiotherapists in Windsor
Four chartered physiotherapists visit homes in and around Windsor. Helen has been qualified for more than twenty years, with a background in orthopaedics. Natalie has been a chartered physiotherapist since 2007 and spent most of the last decade as a senior community physiotherapist. George’s experience covers orthopaedics, musculoskeletal and respiratory physiotherapy. Victoria has more than twenty years’ experience and an MSc in neurological rehabilitation. Jade, our physiotherapy assistant, works alongside them. You will see the same physiotherapist wherever we can, and if they are away, an experienced colleague who has been briefed will cover.
What people say about our physiotherapists
“I’ve witnessed the significant improvement in residents mobility and overall wellbeing following support from The Caring Physio team. Their clinical expertise is outstanding and they are professional and reliable when visiting our Care Home. I would highly recommend them for any care setting.”
Rachael K., Berkshire · Google review
“These guys are great, they’ve been amazing from the second we contacted them, they’re friendly and have gone the extra mile to help out, taking the time to explain my situation in an easy to understand yet detailed manner. At short notice I was given more help than I expected that got me on the road to recovery, and I am so much more comfortable now. I absolutely recommend giving Will and his team a call!”
Callum S., Berkshire · Google review
Where we visit in and around Windsor
Windsor
- Windsor town centre
- Clewer
- Dedworth
- Spital
- Old Windsor
Across the river
- Eton
- Eton Wick
- Datchet
Towards Surrey
- Englefield Green
- Egham
- Staines-upon-Thames
That covers most of SL4 and the places just beyond it. If you are not sure whether we reach you, ring and ask.
What people in Windsor ask us for
People rarely ring about strength. They ring because something ordinary has become difficult. These are the things families in Windsor ask us for most.
- Getting up from the dining chair at the end of a meal without help.
- Being able to walk to your bathroom at night on your own.
- Being able to bend down and pick up your post from the mat.
- A walk along the river with the family.
- Going to the hairdresser or the barber on your own.
- Feeling steady enough to stop watching your feet.
We measure where you are at the first visit, so later progress is something you can see.
What we help with at home in Windsor
- Hip or knee replacementGetting the bend, the strength and the stairs back after a new joint.
- After a hospital stayGetting off the bed, out of the chair and round the house after an illness.
- Falls and balanceSteadier on your feet, and knowing how to get up from the floor.
- Getting weaker at homeSlowing down, holding on to furniture, near-misses: the time to start is now.
- StrokeRehabilitation that carries on after hospital therapy ends: walking, transfers and confidence at home.
- Parkinson’sPractice at turning, starting to walk and getting through doorways without freezing.
There is more on each of these on our physiotherapy for older people and neurological physiotherapy pages.
Wexham Park has the wards. Heatherwood has the theatres. Neither has your front step.
An emergency admission from Windsor usually means Wexham Park in Slough, where Frimley Health has an older people’s unit, an acute frailty unit and a stroke rehabilitation ward. After a stroke, the first days are often spent at Wycombe Hospital before the move to Ward 16 at Wexham Park for rehabilitation. Planned hip and knee replacements are done at Heatherwood in Ascot. King Edward VII Hospital in Windsor runs outpatient clinics. Between them they do a great deal.
What no hospital can practise is your own stairs, your own bathroom and the step at your own front door. That is where we start. Ring us when you have a discharge date, or before, and we will plan the first visit for the first days home.
Five days in bed is enough to weaken the legs
A review of bed-rest studies found that five days of bed rest lowered leg strength by about 12% in older adults. That is why the first weeks home matter so much. The good news is just as well evidenced: across 121 trials, strength training helped older people with walking, climbing steps and standing up from a chair.
Di Girolamo et al., Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021 · Liu and Latham, Cochrane, 2009
How we close the gap
In place before you need it
If you can see a hospital stay or a discharge coming, tell us now and we will have the first visit planned.
Getting your nerve back
After a fall or a long spell indoors, belief goes before strength does. We rebuild both together, one success at a time.
Your carers shown how
We show the people who help you each day how to make a transfer or a walk part of your recovery, not a job done for you.
A walk by the river
Flat, close to home and something to do with the family. For many people in Windsor it is the first goal worth aiming for, and we build towards it from the front door.
FAQ - Your local questions
Can you help my husband come home from Wexham Park?
Yes, and it is worth ringing before he is discharged rather than after. We take referrals straight from families, so there is no GP letter to obtain and no list to join. The hospital will have got him to a standard that works on a ward — level floors, handrails, staff within calling distance. Home is a different problem: his own stairs, the step at the door, the gap between the chair and the doorway. Tell us the discharge date and we will book the first visit into that first week back, which is when most ground is lost. It helps to know the ward: the older people’s unit is wards 7 and 8.
My mother has not been out of the house since Christmas. Nothing happened, she just stopped. Is that something you help with?
Yes, and it is one of the best reasons to ring. Stopping without an obvious cause is usually a series of small decisions rather than one event — the step looked icy, the walk seemed further than it used to, and after a few weeks not going out becomes the habit. The legs follow the habit within months. It responds well while it is still recent, and nothing needs to have gone wrong. We would work on the actual route she wants back, whether that is the post box, the church or the walk along the river.
My father's Parkinson's will only get worse. What is the point of physiotherapy?
The point is how well he lives on the way, and for how long. We will not tell you physiotherapy reverses Parkinson’s, because it does not. What it does is hold onto things that otherwise slip away quietly — the turn in a narrow hallway, getting out of a chair without three goes, walking through a doorway without freezing. Keeping something for another year is a genuine outcome rather than a consolation prize. It also tends to mean less help needed rather than more, which matters at home as much as it does on paper.
Do you cover Old Windsor, Datchet and Eton?
Yes — Old Windsor, Datchet, Eton, Eton Wick and out towards Ascot and Sunninghill. Windsor is our hub for this corner and the boundary is not a line drawn on a map. Being a few miles out makes no difference to how long we stay or what we work on, and it is often where the visit is worth most, because the alternative is a drive and a car park at the far end. If you are beyond the places named here, ring and ask rather than ruling yourself out.
My mother is intensely private and hates strangers in the house. What actually happens on a first visit?
Less than she fears. We are not there to take over her sitting room. The first visit is mostly conversation — what she used to do, what she has stopped doing, what she would like back — with enough hands-on assessment to see how she really moves and enough treatment that it does not feel like an hour of talking. She stays in charge of what happens and what does not. If at the end she would rather we did not come back, that is a legitimate answer, and we will tell you so plainly rather than keep turning up.
Can you work with the private carers we already employ?
Yes, and it usually makes both work better. We show the care team where the rehabilitation is hiding in what they already do — where a transfer can be practice rather than a lift, which part of the walk to the bathroom she should do herself, when to wait ten seconds rather than step in. It is never a criticism of anyone; helping in a way that quietly takes over is something all of us do with the best intentions. We leave the guidance in writing so it does not depend on who is on duty. Our fees are set out on our FAQ page.
How will we know whether it is working?
Because we measure it and tell you. At the start we record how far he walks, how he gets out of a chair and what he manages without help, so progress is a fact rather than an impression. After visits you hear what has changed and what has not. And if the work stops making a difference, we will say so and stop rather than quietly carrying on because the appointments are in the diary. Being told honestly that something has gone as far as it will is worth more than being strung along.
Local support in Windsor
As well as physiotherapy, families often need to know what else is out there. These are the organisations we are asked about most, and none of them charges for advice.
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead adult social care — where an assessment of care needs starts, on 01628 683744.
Age UK Berkshire — free local information and advice, on 0118 959 4242.
RBWM support for carers — carers’ support here is run in-house by the borough, on 01628 683744.
Care homes in Windsor
Care homes in Windsor include Care UK’s Queens Court on Dedworth Road and Mountbatten Grange on Helston Lane. When a relative is living in a home, families often ask us to add one-to-one physiotherapy to what the home provides. We visit the resident in their own room, agree the times with the staff, and leave a note of what helps between visits. You can read more about physiotherapy for care home residents.
Care home managers in Windsor — get in touch to discuss regular visiting physiotherapy for your residents.
Windsor is one of our Berkshire areas, alongside home visit physiotherapy in Maidenhead, Slough and Bracknell. If the town you need is not listed, see all the areas we cover, or ring us and we will tell you honestly whether we can reach you.