The team around Anna used game-changing equipment to help her walk again

State-of-the-art rehabilitation equipment is changing the way physiotherapists at Nightingale House rehabilitate their patients. Thanks to donations it has been possible to purchase a ceiling hoist system with dynamic weight support. It is now installed in the hospice’s brand-new gym and rehabilitation centre.

Anna was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer five years ago and after eleven sessions of chemotherapy, improvement in her condition and being treated at home by a team of district nurses, the mother of one realised her health was beginning to deteriorate again.

She began to experience a loss of feeling in her legs and after suffering several falls, she ended up with two spells in the hospital during the lockdown and was unable to walk.

Following assessments by clinicians from the Maelor Hospital and

Nightingale House Anna was admitted as an in-patient to the hospice in the summer.

Nightingale House’s Physiotherapist was convinced that the new hoist in the gym could get her patient mobile again.