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New funding has been secured by a charity which works with people with Cerebral Palsy in Scotland, to help sustain and develop its specialist support service. Cerebral Palsy Scotland works with children, adults and whole families across the country to help them build skills, knowledge, confidence and relationships, enabling them to overcome barriers that may [...]
Stroke survivors and budding singers from across Northern Ireland raised their voice in a pop-up choir on 4th June to raise funds for the Stroke Association. Around 70 people came together in the Oh Yeah Centre in Belfast to learn and record a song in just 90 minutes as part of the Stroke Association’s new [...]
A new pilot scheme offering grants of up to £3,000 will help more marginalised communities across the UK deliver physical activity sessions for people living with Parkinson’s. The Parkinson's UK pilot focuses on groups and areas where people with Parkinson’s are underrepresented in exercise and physical activity provision. The initiative will run alongside the charity’s [...]
A new glove-based system that uses functional electrical stimulation (FES) to activate individual fingers could offer a more effective way to support hand rehabilitation in people recovering from stroke or spinal cord injuries. The FESGlove delivers targeted electrical stimulation to specific hand muscles and nerves, offering greater selectivity than many current systems, which often cause [...]
Occupational therapist and founder of COTA Case Management, Lauren McCluskey, speaks to NR Times to discuss her journey from the NHS to specialising in amputations, emphasising the importance of collaboration between care teams. Established in 2019, COTA (Complex Orthopaedic Trauma and Amputations) Case Management is based in Lancashire, and helps to support people's immediate needs assessments, [...]
A programme that connects brain injury survivors with technology developers has led to design changes in at least nine research projects, according to new findings. The initiative involves one-hour virtual sessions where innovators, including small-medium enterprises and clinicians, present their research plans to selected groups of patients with relevant expertise. More than 20 sessions have [...]
A common sleep aid restores healthier sleep patterns and protects mice from the brain damage seen in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research. The drug, lemborexant, prevents the harmful buildup of an abnormal form of a protein called tau in the brain, reducing the inflammatory brain damage tau is known to [...]
Researchers have captured a first-of-its-kind video of dynein-Lis1 protein interaction, supporting future drug development for neurological disorders. Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialised protein vehicles to move everything - from positioning organelles to carting protein instructions to disposing of cellular garbage. These highways (called microtubules) and vehicles (called motor proteins) are indispensable to cellular [...]
During REM sleep, the body enters a state of paralysis. This can pose a danger for patients with weakened diaphragms due to neuromuscular diseases. Now new research published at the ATS 2025 International Conference has shown that antidepressants that suppress REM sleep are associated with improved survival in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The [...]
In 2014, Amanda Harris from Meisgyn was paralysed from the chest down after a cycling accident resulted in a spinal cord injury. Eleven years after her accident, and with the use of only one fully functioning leg, she has cycled approximately 300km over three days through Northern Italy in aid of Spinal Injuries Association. While [...]
