Being a Prolonged Disorder of Consciousness (PDOC) expert
An expert in patients with a prolonged disorder of consciousness (PDOC) will give evidence to a court
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2024
Acquired Brain Injury rehabilitation
First published: November 21, 2024 Last modified: November 21, 2024 I have agreed to talk, on 6 December 2024, to medical trainees about Acquired Brain Injury rehabilitation. I decided to write a post to help me set out six principles, but as I wrote this post, I realised there was a gaping hole around the
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Recuperation, recovery, and rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation is associated with many R words: restoration, reablement, recuperation, reactivation, recovery, reintegration, and other variations on the theme. Is this a helpful disaggregation of the rehabilitation process, or does it confuse and obfuscate? This post explores this question. This is essential because many people draw distinctions between these and other terms, such as intermediate
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Resolving complex clinical cases.
I am asked to provide second opinions when the local team has difficulty, usually when the patient and family disagree with the rehabilitation team, or there are disputes about funding more rehabilitation. I enjoy the challenge and typically find a way forward. This post is my reflection on how I approach challenging and complex cases.
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Hope is the key to person-centred rehabilitation
On 3 October 2024, I gave a talk at the Italian Society of Clinical Movement Analysis meeting about how to remain person-centred when gait analysis is your primary expertise and interest. When asked to present a keynote talk, I chose this title because I wanted a topic that challenged me to pay attention to a
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Virtual Reality rehabilitation
Virtual reality is frequently used to describe rehabilitation treatment and occasionally assessments. But what does the term mean, or, more accurately, what does the user mean by it? Was ‘Return of the [space] Invaders’, released in 1984, virtual reality? It certainly engrossed thousands of people, including me! Knowing what the term means is crucial when
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Collaboration in rehabilitation
On Tuesday, 6 September 2022, I gave a lecture at the Muscular Dystrophy Foundations conference center, Musholm, Denmark on, “Multi professionalism in rehabilitation – collaboration in the clinic and across sectors and ‘ownership’ of the patient.” In Denmark, children with muscular dystrophy can have a two-week annual rehabilitation review in a residential centre. One issue
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Hope in rehabilitation: an overlooked asset?
Over 44 years of interest and research in rehabilitation, I have scarcely considered hope except as something likely to cause distress when it is not realised. My interest started on 9 June 2024 when I wrote a page on “goals and hope in rehabilitation,” now published. I only added hope to contrast it with goal
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The rehabilitation syllabus
First published: May 26, 2024 Last modified: May 26, 2024 In 2021, the Rehabilitation Medicine curriculum was published. Many doctors were concerned at the absence of any guidance on or requirement for more specific knowledge or clinical skills, such as how and when to inject a painful shoulder or being able to prescribe a leg
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What is community rehabilitation?
Community rehabilitation is rehabilitation delivered to a patient outside a hospital setting by a multi-professional team managed as a unit with a single budget, whose members have shared resources and meet regularly in their base to discuss cases, policies, and quality improvement. Community rehabilitation sounds good to politicians (it saves money on buildings), patients (they
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