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Jessie’s Fund teamed up with Chroma to deliver music therapy to paediatric patients in York Hospital, as music therapist Steven Lyons reports.
Dr Gemma Costello introduces SPECS, a psychosocial training package for professionals working with children and young people with acquired brain injury.
By David Withers, partner in the serious injury team in Irwin Mitchell’s Sheffield Office.
Rachel Swanick, senior therapist at Chroma, on helping children come to terms with traumatic and upsetting events.
Neurokinex is pioneering new technology and a new model to address health inequalities experienced by people living with paralysis. The social enterprise was founded in 2013 by Harvey Sihota, owner of a spinal cord injury, with a mission to redefine the landscape for newly injured people when they first leave hospital. Sihota says: “A change [...]
Professionals representing key disciplines at St Andrew’s Healthcare explain their priorities in managing this highly complex condition.
A view from the frontline of child brain injury care on this often misunderstood and under-diagnosed condition.
The professionals helping to make sure sex is not forgotten in the drive to improve life quality after severe injury.
Post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) relates to the time after a period of unconsciousness (although this is not always the case) following an acquired brain injury, when the injured person is conscious and awake, but due to their brain injury is behaving or talking in a bizarre or uncharacteristic manner. Specific symptoms of PTA are individual, but most commonly involve memory and orientation impairment. When combined with confusion, agitation, distress and anxiety, uncharacteristic and difficult to manage behaviours can manifest. These may include aggression, swearing, shouting, disinhibition, and wandering, which in the context of a trauma ward or general hospital setting, can be difficult or unsafe to manage.
Also high on the agenda are brain stimulation, diagnostics and mental health; with organisers expecting around 3,500 neurologists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, clinicians, rehab specialists and hospital trust representatives to attend. The convention, at the NEC, is billed as the only trade show in Europe for brain and spinal experts and will feature over 200 exhibitors. Among them will be those offering new and emerging approaches to rehabilitation, with a range of innovative product and services firms.
