These posts cover aspects of the rehabilitation team and team work
First published: January 12, 2025 Last modified: January 12, 2025 Recently, I saw a patient in a care home to give a second opinion on rehabilitation needs, and the team gave me a detailed report on their observations. I read the 15-20 page report, which included standardised assessment and personal observations. One colossal omission struck […]
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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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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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What is the unique contribution of a speech and language therapist to the rehabilitation team’s collective expertise? I persuaded a brave colleague to write this post. Harriet Peel was the speech and language therapist in the rehabilitation team at the Dean Neurological Centre, a care home where I work. The content after the Table of
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“But what do doctors do in rehabilitation? “I have been asked this question since I became interested in rehabilitation. Many healthcare professionals, including managers, worryingly state, “We don’t need doctors in our rehabilitation service.” When asked to justify this, the usual reply is, “Well, we can always ask their GP or consultant if we need
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First published: March 14, 2022 Last updated: November 15, 2025 Various reviews of ‘person-centred’ care reveal the wide range of interpretations of this attractive but deceptive phrase. A group in Auckland, New Zealand, have explored the concept and, between 2014 and 2024, published data-based papers setting out a strong description. This post was first published
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We can debate whether the patient is a part of the team (here), but we cannot debate that the patient is central to the team’s work, nor can we doubt that the team and the patient must work together. David Wozny has already written on this site (here) and now gives his experience of being
Teamwork is central to rehabilitation. A team is comprised of a group of people, each from a different profession. In a team, professional boundaries are blurred, and much knowledge and many skills are shared. Yet a team is weakened by removal of a team profession. So, what is the unique contribution of a particular profession?
What do we add? A series. Read More »
Team members face an uneasy tension between being a member of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team and being a member of a professional group. On the one hand, they have a special expertise in and commitment to rehabilitation. On the other hand, they have a special expertise in and commitment to the activities of their profession.
Rehabilitation professions. Read More »
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