About Us

About Us

How can we help?

We at Rita Henn & Partners are committed to enabling our clients to realise and achieve their full potential through a comprehensive and integrated physical rehabilitation service.

Our Values

As a company, and as individuals, we value integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, continual self-improvement, and mutual respect. We are committed to our clients and partners and have a passion for Physical Rehabilitation. We thrive on big challenges, and pride ourselves on seeing them through. We hold ourselves accountable to our clients, partners, and employees by honouring our commitments, providing results, and striving for the highest quality of physical rehabilitation.

Our Social Responsibility

Rita Henn & Partners is focussed on community involvement, skills development and transfer and contributing to the broader rehabilitation environment in Africa. We are currently involved in the following ways

Representation or Membership on the following committees:

  • South African Society of Physiotherapy (SASP)
  • Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa (OTASA)
  • South African Speech, Language and Hearing Association (SA SLHA)
  • Neurological Rehabilitation Group of the SASP
  • Southern African Spinal Cord Association

Previous Research:

  • Physical abilities of community-dwelling adults more than six months post stroke: a cross sectional survey.

Training and development of undergraduate students from University of Pretoria and University of the Witwatersrand:

  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Speech Therapy
  • Assisting in the training of undergraduate students from the University of Pretoria in Seating Technology and Research
  • Assisting with masters training of WITS physiotherapy students

Social responsibility:

Rita Henn & Partners is focussed on community involvement, skills development and transfer as well as contributing to the broader rehabilitation environment in Africa.  We are currently involved in the following projects: 

  • Supporting Disabled Persons Organisations, namely: Breaking Barriers (Providing Rehabilitation to underprivileged amputees), Bold Moves, QASA, BrainLife and Mandela Day sponsorships.
  • Sponsoring of delegates and presenters to workshops and congresses.
  • Job shadowing and community service
  • Stroke Support Group
  • Spinal and Neuro Peer Support Training

Current Research:

  • The evolution of a task oriented training programme and its potential in the Private Healthcare Sector in RSA.
  • The effectiveness of minimal task oriented group training on stroke survivors QOL and patients perspectives.
  • Does a little go along way?
  • Prevelance of return to work following traumatic brain injury.
  • A comparison of three approaches to weekend rehabilitation on the functional outcome of patients in the acute stage post-stroke.