This page lists patient leaflets by their title. Please use the A-Z below to find the leaflets relevant to you.
If you are not sure which leaflet titles are relevant to you, see our list of leaflets grouped by department/topic.
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- This leaflet has been designed to help speed up your recovery and prevent any problems with long-term shoulder stiffness following your lung surgery.
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- This leaflet gives you advice about recovering from axillary surgery and returning to normal everyday activities. It explains exercises you should do each day, things to look out for and some general advice about your recovery.
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- This leaflet gives you advice about recovering from breast reconstruction surgery with a TMG flap and returning to normal everyday activities. It explains exercises you should do each day, things to look out for and some general advice about your recovery.
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- This leaflet gives you advice about recovering from breast reconstruction surgery using a superior/inferior gluteal artery flap (SGAP/IGAP) and returning to normal everyday activities. It explains exercises you should do each day, things to look out for and some general advice about your recovery.
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- This leaflet gives you advice about recovering from breast surgery and returning to normal everyday activities. It offers information on exercises you should do each day and things to look out for, as well as general advice about your recovery.
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- The aim of this leaflet is to help you and your relatives understand the role of physiotherapy following your oesophageal surgery.
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- This leaflet explains how you can help yourself to progress and develop your general exercising activity as a physiotherapy patient.
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- A leaflet, to be completed by a physiotherapist, giving patients and their families information about what they can and can't do following their orthopaedic surgery.
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- This leaflet is designed to provide you with information about your high tibial osteotomy (HTO). It includes advice and exercises to aid your recovery and provides guidance so that you know what to expect.
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- This leaflet explains more about returning to your everyday activities after your peri acetabular osteotomy (PAO). It explains the exercises you should do each day, things to look out for and some general advice about activities, such as driving and returning to sport.
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- This leaflet explains more about returning to your everyday activities after your arm injury or operation.
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- This leaflet explains the treatment for your pilonidal sinus and your recovery.
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- This leaflet explains more about plasma exchange, including the benefits, risks, alternatives and what you can expect when you come to hospital.
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- This leaflet explains about having pleurodesis, a procedure to seal the space between your lungs and chest wall, to stop fluid collecting there
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- The aim of this information sheet is to answer some of the questions you may have about progressive multifocal leuko-encephalopathy (PML).
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- This leaflet explains what fibroids and polyps are and how surgery may help you. It should be read along with the leaflet, Having a hysteroscopy – an internal examination of your womb, which explains the surgery in more detail.
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- This leaflet provides information about a portacath insertion, including the benefits, risks and any alternatives. It also explains what you can expect when you come to hospital.
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- This leaflet explains the pathway followed at this Trust for patients with post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) and chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). It also provides information on what you can expect when you come to hospital.
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- The aim of this leaflet is to help answer some of the questions you may have about having a posterior cervical fusion. It explains the benefits, risks and alternatives of the procedure as well as what you can expect when you come to hospital.
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- The aim of this leaflet is to help answer some of the questions you may have about having posterior cervical surgery. It explains the benefits, risks and alternatives of the procedure as well as what you can expect when you come to hospital.
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- The aim of this leaflet is to help answer some of the questions you may have about having a lumbar fusion. It explains the benefits, risks and alternatives of the procedure as well as what you can expect when you come to hospital.
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- Posterior vitreous detachment is an eye condition. This information sheet has been given to you to help answer some of the questions you may have about posterior vitreous detachment.
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- This leaflet is for women who had hypertension (high blood pressure) in their pregnancy or shortly after delivery. If you have any questions or concerns, please speak to a member of staff caring for you.
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- This booklet aims to help people with post-polio syndrome relieve their symptoms and stay independent.
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- This leaflet explains more about taking low-dose aspirin during pregnancy to prevent pre-eclampsia. If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to ask a doctor or nurse caring for you.