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‘Is spinal cord injury curable? Yes, it is’

As chief executive of Spinal Research, Harvey Sihota’s focus is to advance global efforts to develop treatments for paralysis through its funding of medical research. Here, Harvey tells NR Times why efforts to turn academic discoveries into clinical realities must be stepped up, and how both investment and expertise is crucial to that   Back in 2009, when a freak accident led to Harvey Sihota being left paralysed, the outlook for spinal cord injury patients being able to walk again was less than optimistic. “It was considered to be final, a lifelong condition. When the consultant came to my hospital bed and told me I’d never walk again, it was very black and white,” he recalls.

By |2024-07-04T17:44:21+01:0014 April 2021|Spinal injury|
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Nurses to establish specialist centre in Nigeria

Two nurses from a care and rehab community are using their 20 years of experience with the provider to open a specialist care centre in their native Nigeria. 

Isaac and Nikki Ajibade, two of the longest-serving members of staff at Askham Village Community, are establishing an 18-bed centre in Nigeria which will provide nursing and dementia care, with future plans to expand into neuro support.  The couple are using Askham’s community approach in creating their own centre, and will use their two decades of experience with the provider to help them establish and develop their new project. 
By |2026-02-11T11:42:22+00:0014 April 2021|Inpatient neuro rehab, Care & services|
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Suicide rates ‘did not increase’ during early pandemic

The numbers of suicides globally remained largely unchanged or even declined in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, compared with the levels experts feared. 

Amidst the developing mental health crisis arising from the deadly virus sweeping the world, a new study has shown that between April 1 and July 31 last year, suicide levels in 21 countries worldwide did not increase.  However, the authors of the study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, note that this only provides a snapshot of the early stages of the pandemic - and that governments must remain vigilant to longer-term mental health effects. 
By |2024-07-04T17:44:21+01:0014 April 2021|Neuropsychology|
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New case management business continues to grow

One of the most recently-established businesses in UK case management is growing strongly, with ongoing recruitment and an increasing case load. 

Birchwood & Co was formed in December last year as a specialist complex injury case management company and has already assembled a sizeable team of case managers with expertise in a host of areas.  The business is also the only case management company nationally to have in-house clinical psychology expertise.  While having only been in business for four months, Birchwood & Co - based in Sheffield with a satellite office in London - is continuing to win new work nationally, and is recruiting in case management, business development and marketing roles as it aims to keep pace with its fast-developing workload and profile. 
By |2024-07-04T17:44:21+01:0013 April 2021|Case management|
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‘I’m sorry for handling the steering wheel with buttered fingers’

As he continues to come to terms with the loss of his ‘ex life’ and learns to celebrate the 21st birthday of his new self, The Brain Damaged Baron reflects on the comfort blanket of support from those close to him, while struggling with the loss of vanishing friends

  Let’s get straight down to business.  The salient truth is that one day, the life I once knew came to an end. Yep, gone, cheerio, toodle pip. It is an ex-life. It has ceased to be, I trotted off this mortal coil in order to push up some buttercups. Is it buttercups? I forget. 
By |2024-07-04T17:44:21+01:0013 April 2021|Brain injury|
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Sleep problems ‘can be worse with mild TBI’

Sleep disorders are more prevalent among people with mild traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in comparison to those with more a severe diagnosis, new research has revealed. 

In the study, the links between TBI and sleep problems were strengthened further, with people with TBI shown to be up to 50 per cent more likely to develop insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders than people who have not been injured.  And in a significant outcome, the association with sleep disorders was stronger amongst those with mild TBI than in the case of serious injury. 
By |2024-07-04T17:44:21+01:0013 April 2021|Brain injury|
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Revolutionary neurorehab app begins national roll-out

A tech platform credited with revolutionising rehabilitation for the neuro sector goes live today as the first step in its national roll-out. 

Neuro ProActive has been created to enable a fully multi-disciplinary approach to rehabilitation, covering both inpatient and community care and involving patients and their families in the process. The app - which supports the spectrum of neurological conditions, from brain injury to stroke, dementia and Long COVID - enables greater cohesion between therapists through its end-to-end message and video calling encryption, which allows remote services and patient monitoring to be done via one single platform. 
By |2024-07-04T17:44:22+01:0012 April 2021|Tech & industry|
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Stroke risk after TBI ‘can last five years’

The risk of stroke for patients with TBI is at its highest in the first four months after injury and remains significant for up to five years, new research has revealed. 

TBI patients have an 86 per cent increased risk of stroke, when compared to patients who have not experienced a TBI.  Stroke risk may be at its highest in the initial four months post-injury, but remains a potential risk for the following five years, the University of Birmingham-led research finds.  Significantly, the findings suggest that TBI is a risk factor for stroke regardless of the severity or subtype of the injury - statistics show that up to 90 per cent of TBIs are mild, which researchers highlight as showing the stroke risk applies to even those who had few symptoms and are fully recovered.   
By |2024-07-04T17:44:22+01:0012 April 2021|Stroke|
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‘Arts therapies can provide children with a voice’

As Chroma partners with a North Devon school to deliver a full arts therapies service, Lucy Collings Pettit, a Neurologic Music Therapist with Chroma, discusses the power of such therapy in children

  In September 2020, building upon successful existing music therapy provision, Pathfield School in North Devon introduced a full arts therapies service within their school, in partnership with Chroma.  The Chroma team consists of a neurologic music therapist, an art therapist and a drama therapist. 
By |2024-07-04T17:44:22+01:0012 April 2021|Therapy|
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AI ‘can crack the code of Alzheimer’s’

Powerful algorithms used by Netflix, Amazon and Facebook can 'predict' the biological language of neurodegenerative diseases, scientists have found.

Big data produced during decades of research was fed into a computer language model to see if artificial intelligence (AI) can make more advanced discoveries than humans. Academics from St John's College, University of Cambridge, found the machine-learning technology could decipher the 'biological language' of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s. Their groundbreaking study could be used in the future to 'correct the grammatical mistakes inside cells that cause disease’.
By |2024-07-04T17:44:22+01:0012 April 2021|Dementia|
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