{"title":"Geriatric rehabilitation","image":"/images/competences/reeducation-geriatrique.jpg","content":"\n**Preserving your mobility, your balance and your independence at every age: geriatric rehabilitation helps you walk more safely, get up without fear and continue the activities that matter to you.** At Pôle Equilibre & Santé in Bascharage, care is not reduced to an age on your ID card. It starts from your history, your current abilities and your concrete goals, then is built around progressive, safe exercises that are useful in real life.\n\nKeeping strength in your legs, good balance and confident movement is not a luxury: it is the key to staying at home, going out, seeing your loved ones and keeping the pleasure of everyday movements. Physiotherapy complements medical follow-up and adapts to everyone's pace, including harder days.\n\n## Who is it for?\n\nThis care is for people who wish to regain or preserve their ease after a **fall**, a hospitalisation, an operation, a fracture or a period of inactivity. It can also be useful in case of loss of strength, less confident walking, joint pain, deconditioning or difficulties with everyday movements such as getting up, bending down or carrying the shopping.\n\nRehabilitation can be offered when balance declines, when stairs become difficult, when one goes out less than before or when one is apprehensive about certain movements. It also concerns people living with a chronic or neurological disease, in relation to their state of health and the doctor's recommendations.\n\nIt is not only for people who are already very frail. A simple feeling of insecurity when walking, a new slowness or the fear of falling are enough to justify an assessment: acting early often makes it possible to keep more activities and confidence.\n\n## A functional assessment to start from your needs\n\nThe first appointment helps take stock of your history, your treatments, your pain, your habits and your goals. Depending on the situation, the physiotherapist observes gait, balance, transfers, joint mobility, strength, endurance and confidence in movement.\n\nSimple functional tests may be used to establish a measurable starting point: getting up from a chair, holding your balance, walking a short distance or climbing a few steps. They are used to track progress without reducing your situation to a single number.\n\nThis assessment is used to identify the activities that pose a problem for you and to build a realistic, measurable and safe programme. It also makes it possible to identify signs that require medical advice before continuing or intensifying exercises.\n\n## Goals of rehabilitation\n\n- **Strengthen the legs and trunk**: regain strength to get up, walk and stand for longer without excessive fatigue.\n- **Work on balance and protective reactions**: make movements more stable and know how to recover in case of imbalance.\n- **Make walking safer**: improve support, changes of direction, stairs and the use of a walking aid when useful.\n- **Facilitate transfers**: getting up from a chair, an armchair, the bed or the toilet confidently and safely.\n- **Prevent falls**: identify risky situations, maintain abilities and reduce the apprehension associated with movement.\n- **Regain independence**: gradually resume the activities that are important to you and limit the loss of independence.\n\nExercises are adapted to how you feel that day. They can be carried out with simple equipment, sitting or standing, then integrated into real-life situations. The physiotherapist also explains how to progress between sessions without putting yourself in difficulty.\n\n## Preventing falls: a central objective\n\nA fall is not an inevitable consequence of age. It often results from several factors that add up: reduced strength, less reliable balance, vision, medication, pain or obstacles at home. Physiotherapy acts on what can be trained, particularly lower limb strength and balance, the regular work of which has shown real value in reducing the risk of falling.\n\nBeyond the exercises, we can help you spot tricky situations, choose an appropriate walking aid, organise simple exercises at home and think about useful adaptations in your environment. Relatives may also receive advice to encourage activity and secure transfers without doing for you what you can still manage alone.\n\n## After a fall or hospitalisation\n\nA fall can lead to pain, apprehension and reduced movement, which then favours a loss of strength and a new risk of falling. A supported resumption helps to break this cycle. After a hospitalisation or an operation, work focuses in particular on getting up, walking, endurance, transfers and the gradual return to usual activities.\n\nBring your reports, your postoperative instructions and the list of your treatments: they make it possible to personalise care from the first appointment and to respect the timelines and precautions specific to your situation. In case of repeated falls, malaise, unusual pain or a rapid decline in general condition, medical advice is necessary. Physiotherapy complements medical follow-up and does not replace the diagnosis or prescribed treatments.\n\n## At the practice or at home?\n\nThe session can take place at the Bascharage practice, where the team has space and equipment to work on walking, balance, strength and functional movements in good safety conditions. Home care may also be considered when travel is temporarily difficult or after a hospitalisation.\n\nAt home, the work is rooted in your usual environment: getting up from your armchair, crossing the threshold, climbing your stairs or moving around the rooms where you live. The most suitable arrangement is chosen with you according to your safety, your independence and your goals, then reassessed when your needs change. [Discover our home physiotherapy service](/bascharage/domicile/kinesitherapie-domicile).\n\nTo explore the subject further, also see our specialised site [kine-geriatrie.lu](https://kine-geriatrie.lu/), which presents geriatric rehabilitation in more detail, the situations we treat and practical advice for preparing your appointment.\n\n## When should you seek medical advice quickly?\n\nA fall with loss of consciousness, a blow to the head, significant pain or a deformity suggesting a fracture, a new inability to stand or walk require prompt medical advice. Repeated falls, malaise, unusual dizziness, sudden confusion or a rapid decline in general condition should also be reported to your doctor. In case of emergency — chest pain, significant shortness of breath, sudden loss of strength or speech, malaise — call **112** immediately. Physiotherapy does not replace urgent medical evaluation.\n\n## Frequently asked questions\n\nDo I need to wait for a fall before consulting?
\n\nNo. A decline in balance, slower walking, new fatigue or the fear of going out can already justify an assessment. Acting early often makes it possible to keep more activities, strength and confidence, rather than waiting for a more marked loss of independence.\nAre the exercises suitable if I feel frail?
\n\nYes. The intensity, duration and positions are adjusted to your abilities and how you feel that day, sometimes sitting before moving to standing. Safety and progression matter more than performance, and each exercise is explained before being carried out.\nCan physiotherapy really reduce the risk of falling?
\n\nRegular work on leg strength and balance is among the recognised approaches for limiting the risk of falling. The benefits depend on your situation and are maintained with appropriate activity over time. Physiotherapy acts as a complement to medical follow-up and the other factors to be corrected.\nDo I need a prescription?
\n\nFor care reimbursed by the CNS, a medical prescription and the conditions in force are generally required. The process and steps are detailed on our page [The physiotherapy consultation](/bascharage/kinesitherapie/consultation-kine), and the practice supports you when booking an appointment.\nCan sessions take place at home?
\n\nYes, when travel is temporarily difficult or after a hospitalisation. The practice often remains preferable for certain walking, balance and strengthening exercises that benefit from more space and equipment. The safest arrangement is defined with you and, if needed, with your doctor. [Learn more about home physiotherapy](/bascharage/domicile/kinesitherapie-domicile).\nWhat should I bring to the first appointment?
\n\nBring your prescription if you have one, your useful reports, any postoperative instructions and the list of your treatments. Come with comfortable clothes and the shoes you usually wear, as well as your walking aid if you use one.\nHow do I book an appointment?
\n\nYou can [book online](https://fr.doctena.lu/cabinet/Pole_Equilibre_Sante-281318) or call the Bascharage practice on [+352 26 65 28 42](tel:+35226652842). If you are unsure about the urgency of your symptoms or after a fall with malaise, call 112 rather than waiting for an appointment.\n