The PTU Rehabilitation Centre

The PTU Rehabilitation Centre is a national specialised hospital in The Capital Region of Denmark. PTU offers a wide range of multidisciplinary rehabilitation possibilities to people with long-term physical disabilities caused by:

• Polio
• Injury to the spinal cord
• Injury caused by accident

The Rehabilitation Centre employs 60 people divided among eight different professions

• Medical specialists
• Psychologists
• Social workers
• Therapists with special knowledge of technical aids
• Physiotherapists
• Occupational therapists
• Healthcare assistants
• Dieticians
• Swimming instructors

Multidisciplinary rehabilitation

Patients who have been referred to the PTU Rehabilitation Centre will undergo a preliminary examination by a medical specialist. Subsequently, the needs and requirements of the individual patient will determine the multidisciplinary treatment.

• The goal of the rehabilitation is to gain the maximal possible quality of life for the individual patient and his or her relatives by including the aspects of life which are relevant in the current situation.
• The rehabilitation treatment is planned and carried out as a coherent and coordinated process. The rehabilitation is continuously evaluated and adjusted at multidisciplinary conferences.

Referral to PTU’s Rehabilitation Centre

• General practitioners and hospital units may refer patients to the Rehabilitation Centre
• The patient may contact PTU directly and personally pay for his or her test, assessment and treatment.

The Rehabilitation Centre is located in Rødovre and has a small department in Risskov near Aarhus.

Both locations provide outpatient rehabilitation and in Rødovre a three week rehabilitation stay is offered to patients who live too far away to undergo outpatient treatment.

The Rehabilitation Centre with its more than 4,500 square feet (jeg mener, I skal holde Jer til enten m eller feet, og eftersom centret ligger i DK, ville jeg skreive 4,000 m2) features modern and wheel chair accessible treatment facilities, a well-equipped gym and a warm-water pool with a maximum water depth of 1.7 m.

More people in treatment

PTU is in dialogue with the public authorities on widening the target group of the Rehabilitation Centre in order to eventually be able to offer treatment to people with whiplash injuries.

Learn more

To order a brochure about The Rehabilitation Centre, please call: +45 36 73 90 21 or click here.