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PHYSIOTHERAPY
In April 1972 the physiotherapy establishment was increased from 5 physiotherapists to 7½ physiotherapists.
A Superintendent Physiotherapist for the Borough was also appointed.
Grove Park School
A complement of physiotherapists work at this school. Individual treatments are given, as well as
group therapy and hydrotherapy in the school pool. The physiotherapists are responsible for the weekly swimming
session at Granville Road Swimming Baths. About 30 children attend this session.
The Physiotherapists are responsible for apparatus work in the gymnasium, and with a few exceptions,
every child, in the school takes part.
Many other forms of sport are encouraged, including archery, and the annual Inter Schools Sports
Day was held at the Martindale School, Hounslow on Saturday, 8th July, 1972. The children from three
schools, Martindale, Hangers Wood and Grove Park competed.
It had been anticipated that riding lessons would start in September 1972 for some of the children,
but this has been abandoned as the Riding School were not granted permission for a larger indoor riding
school.
An Orthopaedic Consultant from the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, visits the
school two or three times a term.
One physiotherapist attended a 3-day course on Spina-Bifida at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great
Ormond Street in July 1972.
All the physiotherapists attended a series of evening lectures on "The Development, Handling and
Treatment of the Handicapped Child" at the Institute of Child Health.
Kingsbury Day Special School
The work at this school is divided among three physiotherapists making one full time physiotherapist.
The physiotherapists working at this school are doing so under difficult conditions as there is no
physiotherapy treatment room. Children have to be treated either in the classroom or in the school corridors,
which greatly afiects the children's ability to concentrate and they are very easily distracted by the other
children.
Bainacraig Special Care Unit
Two physiotherapists attend the unit for two sessions a week each. Again, they work under great
difficulty as there is no physiotherapy treatment room.
School Health Service
Physiotherapy sessions are held at the following clinics:—
Kilburn Square Pound Lane
Neasden London Road
Craven Park Health Centre
Children are referred for orthopaedic and postural defects and for breathing exercises.
Day Nurseries
The physiotherapists visit day nurseries which have admitted handicapped children and treat them at
the nursery. Advice on handling the children is given to the day nursery stall, from whom the utmost cooperation
is always received.
Domiciliary Visits
If necessary, handicapped children under five years of age are treated at home. Home visits are also
made to children attending special schools to discuss and advise on home management of the child, and suggestions
and advice given on any necessary adaptations and equipment required.
During 1972, with the increase in establishment, the physiotherapy service in the Borough has been
expanded. Greater liaison is now possible with many hospitals as physiotherapists are encouraged to accompany
the children on hospital visits and this is most beneficial both to the Hospital Staff and to the parents.
By attending courses and lectures, the physiotherapists are able to meet other physiotherapists working in
similar fields and this leads to a lively interchange of ideas and theories and practise of treatments.
TYLNEY HALL SCHOOL
Tylney Hall caters for 130 mildly maladjusted and/or mildly delicate senior boys whose handicaps are
such that they do not require psychiatric support or special medical treatment—in fact, as far as maladjusted
boys are concerned, this is not a school for those who are seriously disturbed but for those whose maladjustment
is so mild that often a change of environment in itself provides beneficial results. Those classed as
delicate are usually mild asthmatic cases, some with dietary problems (over-weight), or suffering from neuroses
due to home conditions.
The School is housed in a late 19th century family mansion formerly belonging to the Rotherwick
family, standing in over 100 acres of pleasant Hampshire countryside. The school estate comprises orchards,
kitchen gardens, boys' gardens and extensive playing fields and woodland areas. There are tennis courts and
an open-air swimming pool. The school is located about seven miles from Basingstoke, 12 miles from
Reading, and 45 miles from London. There are new motorways—the M.4 to the North, the M.3 to the South,
providing easy access to London and the West Country by road, and an excellent half-hourly train service
to Waterloo. The nearest railway station is Hook, and subsidised taxi fares are made available for resident
staff to and from the station for recreational purposes. Additionally the School has its own 15 seater mini bus.