Musgrave Park Hospital - Hospital Services - Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation

• Meadowlands is a rehabilitation unit which specialises in Care of Old People. It has a particular focus on the rehabilitation of patients following fractures.
• The MITRE Trust Rehabilitation Unit (MRU) was officially opened in May 2005 by Ireland Rugby player, David Humphreys. The 40,000 ft² building cost £3.5 million to build and is purpose-built to provide regional orthopaedic and rehabilitation physiotherapy services. Musgrave Park also boasts a custom hip-manufacturing unit on-site, one of only five such facilities in the world.
• The MITRE Rehabilitation Unit also houses the only public health Sports Medicine service in Northern Ireland.
• The Regional Disablement Services provide Limb Fitting Services, the Northern Ireland Wheelchair Service, the Rehabilitation Engineering Centre, the Regional Communications Advice Centre and the Independent Living Centre.
• The Spinal Cord Injury Unit (Withers Ward 1a) is the Northern Ireland centre for specialist care and rehabilitation of patients from recovering after illness or injury affecting the spinal injuries.
• Northern Ireland's first Acquired Brain Injury Unit was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall on the 14 May 2006. The £9 million pound state-of-the-art complex provides specialist care and intensive rehabilitation physiotherapy for 25 inpatients and 15 outpatients with traumatic brain injuries. These patients were previously being treated in Forster Green Hospital. The centre is also surrounded by high quality landscaped gardens designed to play a role in healing and patient rehabilitation.