This page shows all the posts that have been added to the category of ‘Rehabilitation Matters’. This category covers posts that consider rehabilitation as a whole (‘holistically’!). Posts in this category are not easily categorised! They will cover any aspect of rehabilitation and a range of topics peripheral to rehabilitation, matters that should be discussed and considered but may not be – yet.
Loneliness and disability
Rehabilitation services should pay attention to loneliness. It is common, associated with many long-term conditions…
Is Long Covid a functional disorder?
In 1978, I submitted my first paper to the British Medical Journal. It concerned what…
Slow-stream rehabilitation.
What is slow-stream rehabilitation? Dr John Burn is leading a group in writing guidance and…
Is rehabilitation healthcare?
Hospitals are a part of the healthcare system, but is rehabilitation healthcare? The UK Department…
Assessment competency
At 02.00 hrs on November 29th, I had an epiphany, “a moment of sudden and…
Wisdom in rehabilitation
In May 2021, Dr Sabena Yasmin Jameel published her University of Birmingham PhD thesis on…
Rehabilitation thinking
“Rehabilitation is a way of thinking, not a way of doing.” I have written two…
Convalescence, recovery, and rehabilitation
In 2007 Peter Halligan and I asked, “Is it time to rehabilitate convalescence?”. No one…
Community Rehabilitation
In 1980 I started a three-year project, a large (n = 700+) controlled clinical trial…
Frailty and rehabilitation
Is frailty a helpful concept within the rehabilitation context? I asked myself this question after…
Rehabilitation potential
What is a person’s ‘Rehabilitation Potential’? Often this question is asked by one clinician of…
Disease, illness, sickness, and disability
These are dangerous and difficult words used in many powerful ways: if considered disabled, you…
Consciousness – cause and effect
Thinking about prolonged disorders of consciousness Consciousness implies awareness: subjective, phenomenal experience of internal and…
A model of person-centred rehabilitation
This blog post is based on an extensive systematic review that generated a sound, theoretically-based…
What do we add?
We can debate whether the patient is a part of the team (here) but we…
Prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC); history and update.
The diagnosis and management of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness is an area of…
Chronic non-malignant pain
A recent article stated, “It has long been established that phantom limb pain is a…
Ready for discharge?
Is this patient ready for discharge? This question must be asked endlessly by care staff,…
Rehabilitation is holistic, or is it?
Rehabilitation usually promotes itself as holistic, considering the patient as a whole and being patient-centred….
Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, or Transdisciplinary?
Teams use many different words to describe themselves. A group recently asked me to help…
Using the MCA in health services
The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is a well-designed, helpful piece of legislation that governs decision-making…
Pain in PDOC
PDOC stands for Prolonged Disorder of Consciousness; the term covers two previously defined states: the…
An impossible decision
Doctors make decisions and are mainly used to making difficult decisions which involve not simply…
Goal attainment scaling.
On Friday, 2nd July 2021 (at 05.00 hrs), I participated in a debate organised by…
