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‘Tidal wave’ of rehab needs post-pandemic, case managers predict

The UK faces a “tidal wave” of brain injury rehab need post COVID-19, with a huge increase in reliance on private and charitable sectors due to stretched NHS resources, new research shows.

The extent of the expected impact on resources over the coming months is laid bare in newly-released research, which reveals 89 per cent of case managers across the UK expect a deluge in demand for rehabilitation resources.

By |2026-09-28T21:29:40+01:0025 September 2020|Case management, News, Case managers|
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Wiltshire Farm Foods introduces pioneering meals to its Level 5 Minced Range

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Wiltshire Farm Foods has launched a groundbreaking range of shaped dishes, as part of its new level 5 Minced Meals.

The visually enhanced range provides more choice and variety than ever for Wiltshire Farm Foods customers whilst being developed in line with the IDDSI framework and comprising the same safe texture for those recommended a level 5 diet by a healthcare professional. The development team at Wiltshire Farm Foods wanted to visually enhance the dishes which form part of its level 5 range, whilst simultaneously providing its customers with more variety and choice. The innovation lies in the shaping of the protein component in each of these dishes, something which has traditionally been a feature of the company’s award-winning ranges.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:52+01:0020 September 2020|News|
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The improv class for people with brain injuries

One community charity has been running improvisation classes for its members online since the start of the pandemic. Editor Jessica Brown drops in on a class to meet the members thinking on the spot.

I opened the Zoom call to 11 faces looking at me, waiting eagerly for the session to begin. But first, some ground rules. Keep the session positive, remember you can pass if you want to, and say the most obvious thing that comes to mind so you keep the momentum going. Now, the improv class, Let’s Make A Scene, could begin. The classes are led by Craig Werth, facilitator at the Krempels Center, a nonprofit community organisation that provides quality programs and services to people living with brain injury in New Hampshire, US.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:53+01:0017 September 2020|News|
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The paramedic on a mission to improve stroke care

It's widely agreed that the sooner a stroke patient receives help, the better their chances of survival, and the better their recovery. Graham McClelland has seen how strokes impact people in the most acute sense of the word. As a paramedic for the North East ambulance service, he dealt with stroke patients on the frontline. Now, he's trying to understand and improve the care people first receive when they’ve had a stroke.

By |2024-07-04T17:46:53+01:0017 September 2020|News|
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Stroke unit that sets up its own virtual community service

After experiencing an acute stroke, patients come to the 20-bed Oxfordshire Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at Abingdon Community Hospital as part of their care pathway. They normally stay at the service, run by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, for around four weeks before they’re discharged home or to other locations in the community.

Follow-up rehab is usually provided by the county’s community therapy service, but with the Covid-19 pandemic in March came a national focus on patients being discharged from hospital, and rehab services were put on the backburner.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:53+01:0017 September 2020|Community neuro rehab, News|
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New hope for treatment of virus-related brain complication

Researchers have identified the specific type of immune cell that causes brain inflammation in herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis, a condition widely known as the cold sore virus, which causes inflammation and swelling of the brain.

They have also determined the protein that calls this immune cell into the brain from the bloodstream, causing brain infection, which is the most common cause of viral encephalitis. The findings, published in Cell Reports, explain that HSV kills a lot of patients. Those who survive are often left with brain injury due to the inflammation and damage caused by the virus and immune cells gaining access to the brain, breaking down the blood-brain barrier.
By |2024-07-04T17:46:53+01:0015 September 2020|News|
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Charity calls for blood pressure monitors to prevent stroke

Blood pressure monitors should be handed out on prescription to slash the number of people who die or are left with disabilities from strokes and heart attacks, a medical charity has said.

Making the home monitors available to anyone diagnosed with high blood pressure would allow people to control the condition more effectively and reduce the demand on GPs’ surgeries, Blood Pressure UK said. “It would make a huge difference,” said Prof Graham MacGregor, chair of the charity. “High blood pressure is the biggest killer in the world from the strokes and heart attacks it causes, and we know that if you are found to have raised blood pressure and it’s treated with tablets and lifestyle changes, it hugely reduces your risk.”
By |2026-09-28T21:29:35+01:0014 September 2020|Preventing brain injury, News|
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MP reflects on the aims of the APPG for acquired brain injury

There are still many steps to be made by government to help drive improvements within stroke care, according to Chris Bryant, MP for Rhondda and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Acquired Brain Injury.

The creation of major trauma units across the UK, says Bryant, have saved, but not necessarily improved, the lives of people with brain injuries. “We’ve been able to save many more lives from traumatic brain injury (TBI) through road traffic accidents, but the problem is, all too often, we save people’s lives but we’re not giving them quality of life,” he says. “A quarter of these units don’t have any consultant in neuro rehabilitation. Quite often there’s not enough neuro rehabilitation available for people to be able to have consistent and prolonged support.”
By |2024-07-04T17:46:53+01:0011 September 2020|News|
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Researchers unlock key prognostic tool for brain injured patients

In 1974, leading neuroscientist Graham Teasdale co-created the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) while at the Institute of Neurological Sciences in Glasgow. This scale has since been used to assess coma and impaired consciousness in patients who have had a brain injury.

The scale is used to describe variations in a patient's eye, motor, and verbal responses. Each feature is assigned numerical scores depending on the quality of the response, and total scores range from three, which is a deep coma, to 15, which is full consciousness.
By |2025-06-16T12:32:15+01:0010 September 2020|News, Insight|
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