Spinal Home Care

Spinal Injury Care

A spinal injury can be life changing and can be a lot to come to terms with – not just for the injured person but for their family and friends too. It requires a lot of physical, psychological and social adjustment to come to terms with its impact.

The effect a spinal injury can have on someone’s life will depend on the severity and extent of the spinal cord damage. With partial damage, there is a chance some sensation and movement will return with both physiotherapy and patience – while total damage is often permanent.

The spinal cord has the vital nerve cells that sends messages from the brain to the rest of the body and sensations from the body to the brain such as temperature, pain and texture. It can become damaged through trauma such as an accident or injury or due to a tumour, haemorrhage or blood clot.

Caring for Someone with a Spinal Injury

Somebody with a spinal injury will usually have loss of movement and sensation below the point of injury leading to paralysis such as from the neck down, chest down or pelvis down. The extent of the paralysis will affect how much care someone will need and how independently they can live.

People with a spinal cord injury are at higher risk of hypothermia as the body is unable to sweat, pressure sores from being unable to move, stroke from sudden surges in bloody pressure and injury from uncontrolled muscle spasms.

Caring for someone with a spinal cord injury can be demanding and is a lot of responsibility and pressure for a family carer. Professional spinal cord care can help alleviate this pressure – providing respite and expert dedicated care.

Care could be for a few hours a day or per week to provide respite for a main carer or on a full time or live in basis to provide round the clock dedicated care. Our carers can support with a range of tasks such as help with personal care such as washing, dressing and going to the toilet as well as housework such as cooking, cleaning and errands such as collecting prescriptions and food shopping.

For over 14 years we’ve been supporting individuals living with spinal cord injuries to live independently at home with the support of a specialist spinal injury carer. Whether you require minimum support or 24-hour live-in care, our spinal home care team can provide an unmatched service.

At Novus Care, we understand every person is unique, which is why all our spinal home care plans are completely bespoke. We take into account not only your care needs but also your personal and social requirements to allow you to achieve your full potential as our spinal home care team place great emphasis on enabling independence and empowering individuals to have greater control of their own lives. We strongly believe that living with a spinal injury shouldn’t affect your quality of life and we work closely with families and other healthcare professionals to develop a personalised care plan centred around retaining choice and control to enable an independent and fulfilling lifestyle.

How Spinal Injury Carers can help

Our spinal injury carers are there to provide care and support at home on a visiting or live in care basis. They are highly experienced and are trained in manual handling techniques and mobility equipment to ensure we are able to meet your care needs safely. Our carers are there to help you live your life, your way and can also accompany you to any hospital appointments you may need to attend, or help you run errands and go about your daily life as usual. Our spinal injury carers build long-lasting relationships with those they care for and become more like friends to the individual.

Our highly trained spinal injury carers are able to assist with:

• Bowel Management
• Medication administration
• Continence care (including catheter care)
• Respiratory support (including tracheostomy, ventilation and suctioning)
• PEG tube or nasogastric feeding
• Pain management
• Medication administration
• Paraplegia and Tetraplegia
• Autonomic Dysreflexia
• Mobility support around the home
• Physiotherapy and rehabilitation

A Spinal Home Care Agency you can Trust

At Novus Care, our spinal home care service not only meets, but consistently exceeds, expectations. We’ve been caring and supporting those living with spinal injuries to live independent lives in the comfort of their own homes for over 14 years. Our nationwide team is highly experienced in providing person-centred spinal home care.

We are a family run business with family values at heart and we take pride in the care we provide. We are fully regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and are routinely checked through unannounced visits. During these checks, the CQC talk to our staff, clients and their families to ensure we are providing the highest level of care in the home. Therefore, you can rest assured that we take spinal home care extremely seriously unlike a number of home care providers who operate as introductory agencies, and are not regulated at all.