Case management
By Rowan Morgan-Ruffley, RMR Rehabilitation One of the questions I'm asked most often is, "How do you prepare a personal trainer to work within the medico-legal sector?" It's a fair question. Supporting someone who has sustained a serious injury is very different from helping someone achieve a fitness goal. The principles of exercise remain the [...]
By Sarah Johnson, clinical lead, Unite Professionals The Unite Professionals Ltd (UPL) Virtual Rehabilitation Clinic (VRC) is a virtual platform that provides a collaborative initiative between UPL and Pure Sports Medicine. The VRC is an internal closed group platform run monthly to provide UPL case managers with access to a consultant led rehab clinic. The [...]
Following the success of its inaugural Southampton event, Agincare's Complex Injury Partnership Programme (CIPP) is bringing its ‘Injury to Independence’ seminar to London on 8 September, creating an opportunity for professionals across health, care, rehabilitation and legal services to explore how better collaboration can improve outcomes for people recovering from traumatic injury. The Southampton event [...]
Martin Gascoigne has spent years sitting at kitchen tables with families who never asked for the job they now do around the clock. As a brain injury case manager, his work is built around the client, the survivor of the injury, but he is quick to point out that the client is only ever half [...]
By Laura Collins and Lucy Jane O'Connor, Unite Professionals Case Management Brain injury rehabilitation is a journey, not a race. Supporting an individual to be ready for rehabilitation is a process which needs to be managed with great care, empathy and consideration from the onset. The brain is involved in almost everything we do. An [...]
The Brain Injury Group is set to host its Adult Brain Injury Conference this June, uniting specialists and practitioners from across the brain injury rehab field. Taking place on June 11 and 12 at The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester, this year’s event marks its first-ever two-day format. On Day 2, Rhiannon Stokes, founder of Stokes [...]
By Matt McLean, Case Manager, Unite Professionals The client was 25 at the time Unite Professionals case manager, Matt McLean, first engaged with him. He had sustained a catastrophic traumatic brain injury at the age of 11, which left him with lifelong cognitive changes affecting memory, impulsivity, inability to learn from mistakes, and highly compromised [...]
A case study by Lucy O'Connor, Unite Professionals From a Neurorehabilitation background in the NHS, I am experienced in working with clients following a Traumatic Brain Injury, new into the world of Case Management the first client on my caseload had sustained a TBI and was an inpatient at a major trauma centre in the [...]
By Claudette Joint, Clinical Lead, Unite Professionals Case Management When a young personal trainer sustained life-changing injuries in a UK road traffic accident, the expectation was that his rehabilitation journey would be challenging. The complexity increased further when he returned to Brazil shortly after discharge, with no access to the therapy, specialist input or funding [...]
Many young brain injury survivors have a strong desire to return to work or education after their injury. But according to case manager Martin Gascoigne of Neuro Case Management, they are rarely given the opportunity to do so. The NR Times award-winning case manager has spent more than two decades supporting people with acquired brain [...]
