All blog posts

This page shows all published blog posts about rehabilitation matters. They are given in reverse chronological order (i.e. most recent at the top). Across the top, a banner shows the different categories with the number of posts in each category. You can select each category from the whole list to reduce the number. Alternatively, you can go to the page that describes the category and shows them below.

Rehabilitation, education, life.

Date created: Date last modified: 7 February, 2026 Recently, I...

Relational Quantum Mechanics and Rehabilitation

Date created: Date last modified: 21 January 2026 Rehabilitation is...

Training in rehabilitation

First published: January 14, 2026 Last modified: January 14, 2026...

What is a diagnosis? Part 2

First published: November 24, 2025 Last updated: November 23, 2025...

Biopsychosocial disequilibrium

First published: November 14, 2025 Last updated: November 14, 2025...

Malady

First published: November 6, 2025 Last updated: November 6, 2025...

Basic Biopsychosocial Framework.

First published: October 3, 2025 Last updated: 3 October 2025...

Biopsychosocial healthcare

First published: September 25, 2025 Last updated: 25 September 2025...

Holistic best interests in court.

First published: August 31, 2025 Last updated: 31 August 2025...

Holistic rehabilitation thinking – 2

First published: May 5, 2025 Last edited: May 5, 2025...

Rehabilitation thinking – 1

First published: May 5, 2025 Last edited: May 5, 2025...

Social participation and rehabilitation.

First published: March 27, 2025 Last edited: March 27, 2025...

PDOC clinical features

First published: February 22, 2025 Last updated: February 22, 2025...

Prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) services

First published: February 10, 2025 On 6 February 2025, three...

Knowing the patient.

First published: January 12, 2025 Last modified: January 12, 2025...

Being a Prolonged Disorder of Consciousness (PDOC) expert

An expert in patients with a prolonged disorder of consciousness...

Acquired Brain Injury rehabilitation

First published: November 21, 2024 Last modified: November 21, 2024...

Recuperation, recovery, and rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation is associated with many R words: restoration, reablement, recuperation,...

Resolving complex clinical cases.

I am asked to provide second opinions when the local...

Hope is the key to person-centred rehabilitation

On 3 October 2024, I gave a talk at the...

Virtual Reality rehabilitation

Virtual reality is frequently used to describe rehabilitation treatment and...

Collaboration in rehabilitation

On Tuesday, 6 September 2022, I gave a lecture at...

Hope in rehabilitation: an overlooked asset?

Over 44 years of interest and research in rehabilitation, I...

The rehabilitation syllabus

First published: May 26, 2024 Last modified: May 26, 2024...

What is community rehabilitation?

Community rehabilitation is rehabilitation delivered to a patient outside a...

What is a diagnosis? Part 1

First published: April 6, 2024 Last updated: November 23, 2025...

Challenging clinical decisions

The title of this post is deliberately ambiguous. It contains...

Neural plasticity

Neural plasticity is “the ability of the central nervous system...

Beliefs, capacity, and best interests

Two recent judgements from the Court of Protection have concerned...

Personal factors in rehabilitation

First published: October 21, 2023 Last updated: March 22, 2025...

Healthcare theory

First published: October 16, 2023 Last updated: October 17, 2025...

The medical model

The biopsychosocial model of illness was born in 1977, with...

Speech and language therapist – 1

What is the unique contribution of a speech and language...

Doctors in rehabilitation – 1

“But what do doctors do in rehabilitation? “I have been...

Maslow’s needs

What type of long-term rehabilitation goals should we set with...

A patient’s rehabilitation curriculum?

A patient’s father recently asked me, “What is the usual...

Rehabilitation Networks – 2

The Community Rehabilitation Alliance recently published some Best Practice Standards...

Rehabilitation Networks – 1

Date published: Date Last updated: February 9,2025 Rehabilitation networks are...

Rehabilitation team leadership

At a recent meeting in Genoa of RIMS (Rehabilitation in...

Disease-specific rehabilitation

Over the years, I have heard people advocating strongly for...

Loneliness and disability

Rehabilitation services should pay attention to loneliness. It is common,...

Is Long Covid a functional disorder?

In 1978, I submitted my first paper to the British...

Slow-stream rehabilitation.

What is slow-stream rehabilitation? Dr John Burn is leading a...

Assessment competency

At 02.00 hrs on November 29th, I had an epiphany,...

Wisdom in rehabilitation

In May 2021, Dr Sabena Yasmin Jameel published her University...

2021 Rehabilitation Curriculum

The new, significantly changed, and improved 2021 Rehabilitation Curriculum for...

Convalescence, recovery, and rehabilitation

In 2007 Peter Halligan and I asked, “Is it time...

Community Rehabilitation

In 1980 I started a three-year project, a large (n...

Frailty and rehabilitation

Is frailty a helpful concept within the rehabilitation context? I...

Rehabilitation potential

First published: July 20, 2022 Last modified: July 20, 2022...

Disease, illness, sickness, and disability

First published: July 12, 2022 Last edited: May 1, 2025...

Consciousness – cause and effect

Thinking about prolonged disorders of consciousness Consciousness implies awareness: subjective,...

A model of person-centred rehabilitation

First published: March 14, 2022 Last updated: November 15, 2025...

The patient – 1

We can debate whether the patient is a part of...

Prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC); history and update.

First published: February 6, 2022 The diagnosis and management of...

Chronic non-malignant pain

Tamar Makin, in 2021, prefaced her Essay with, “It has...

Ready for discharge?

First published: December 17, 2021 Last edited: March 24, 2025...

Assessing Entrustment in Rehabilitation.

Trust is central to all healthcare. A patient trusts the...

Rehabilitation is holistic, or is it?

Rehabilitation usually promotes itself as holistic, considering the patient as...

Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, or Transdisciplinary?

Teams use many different words to describe themselves. A group...

Why are research papers rejected?

Clinical Rehabilitation, the journal I have edited from 1994 to...

Rehabilitation expertise

Rehabilitation is not therapy, and therapy is not rehabilitation. Rehabilitation...

Using the MCA in health services

The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is a well-designed, helpful piece...

Pain in PDOC

First published: July 30, 2021 Last modified: July 30, 2021...

Rehabilitation research news

Today, 18th July 2021, the UK National Institute for Health...

Goal attainment scaling.

On Friday, 2nd July 2021 (at 05.00 hrs), I participated...

Entrustability – what is it?

Most professions initially developed based on trust. Examinations were rare....

Advanced Clinical Practitioners

The role of an Advanced Clinical Practitioner could be characterised...

Do no harm

I have learned much about making decisions about people in...

Social Care research

Today (May 26th 2021), I attended a Zoom-based seminar on...

Humanities in rehabilitation

This post concerns training in and education about empathy, “the...

Covid, FND, and models

“Helping the Public Understand Adverse Events Associated With COVID-19 Vaccinations....

NICE on chronic pain

On 7 April 2021, the National Institute for Health and...

NICE – post-Covid guide

One December 18th 2020 the UK National Institute for Health...

Reflection on progress

This post was precipitated by reading two papers and following...

Nursing home rehabilitation

In March 2020 (pre-Covid lockdown), NHS England and NHS Improvement...

Help change rehab.

Most people feel rehabilitation services in the UK could be...

Rehabilitation professions.

Team members face an uneasy tension between being a member...

Rehabilitation for Long-Covid

Medical services responded rapidly to the very obvious, severe acute...

‘Specialist’ rehabilitation services

The word, specialist, when preceding rehabilitation concerns me for many...