Proving what works
By SweetTree Home Care Services After a stroke in 2021, Samuel’s mobility on the left side of his body was affected, which had an impact on his day-to-day life and resulted in his early retirement. When Samuel reached out to SweetTree to organise ongoing specialist support, the Brain Injury and Neurological Conditions team identified some [...]
Providing tailored support to people in the criminal justice system with an acquired brain injury (ABI) could help to enhance rehabilitation, improve mental health, and support positive engagement with the prison regime, according to new research from Brainkind, the UK’s largest charity supporting people with ABIs and complex neurological conditions. The findings are contained in [...]
By SweetTree Home Care Services Achieving the best possible outcome for every individual under our care is what drives us at SweetTree, and it is this commitment that sits at the heart of our SweetTree Discharge Planning Partnerships. Through our work with hospitals, care homes and other acute medical settings, we are proud to be [...]
A new report released today has exposed the enormous annual cost of brain injury to the UK economy — £43 billion, or 1.5 per cent of GDP. The report was launched by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Acquired Brain Injury and the UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF). The report looks at the economic impact [...]
The Children's Trust is the UK's largest charity supporting children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability. The Children’s Trust’s brain injury rehabilitation service is primarily delivered from its national specialist centre in Tadworth, Surrey. It's the only service commissioned directly by NHS England to provide specialist brain injury rehabilitation for children and young [...]
How claimant and defendant representatives worked together to help amputee Dean Fellows rebuild his life after a road collision – settling his multi-million pound claim in an impressively short timeframe and enabling access to rehabilitation along the way Dean Fellows was left seriously injured in a road collision, when a car went through a junction [...]
People who suffer from continued symptoms of concussion should seek a referral to physical therapy as soon as possible, new research suggests. Even though most people naturally recover from concussions within four weeks, the study reveals that people who delayed physical therapy had lingering deficits related to their reaction times for balance, motor function — [...]
Gait training aims to help people relearn or improve walking ability following a brain or spinal injury. These injuries often disrupt the communication pathways between the brain, spinal cord and muscles, leading to difficulties in walking, balance and coordination. Gait training focuses on restoring these functions through targeted exercises, therapies and advanced technologies. The Hybrid [...]
Three leading neuro rehab organisations have been shortlisted for an NR Times Award. The Rehab Outcome of the Year award recognises cases in which patients have secured life-changing progress through the work of either an individual practitioner or business, or that of an MDT, enabling them to look to an infinitely more positive future. The [...]
Bridge Case Management, which works with clients following road traffic or work-related injury, recently developed a new outcome measure specific to its case management work. Here, in an article written collectively for NR Times, its team shares details of the process and importance of this development. An outcome measure is a tool which enables a [...]
