Physiotherapy in Karen

Why Karen is mostly a home-visit area

Karen is a long way from most clinics, the traffic on Ngong Road at the wrong hour is punishing, and a large proportion of the people who need physiotherapy here are recovering from surgery or managing age-related mobility problems. Asking them to make that journey twice a week is asking them to stop coming.

So we treat Karen at home. Properties here generally have the space to work in properly (a spare room, a veranda, somewhere with floor space) which makes home treatment straightforward rather than a compromise.

What we see here

Post-operative knees and hips, arthritis management, falls prevention for older residents, and a steady stream of riding, golf and tennis injuries. Many patients come to us after a discharge from hospital with a protocol and no local practitioner to carry it out.

Getting around Karen

Karen is large and the sub-areas differ more than outsiders expect. Bogani and Mukoma are big-plot, set well back from the road, and a home visit there needs the gate name rather than a pin dropped on Karen. Hardy and Lower Plains are denser and quicker to reach. Karen Centre is the natural landmark to navigate from, and Miotoni, Marula Lane and Kerarapon run off it.

Give us the specific area when you book. “Karen” can mean a twenty-minute difference between two addresses, and that is the difference between us arriving on time and arriving apologetic.