We’ll be soaring again soon
It’ll take more than a global pandemic to stop Accessible Dreams drawing up plans for more empowering trips in the not-too-distant future, as NR Times reports.
Category: Interviews
The MS secret that sparked a movement
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Working your way back after injury
Returning to work after a brain injury can be a long and daunting road. Here brain injury survivor Dean Harding discusses his own experiences with Irwin Mitchell employment lawyer Emilie Cole and occupational therapist Mandy Richmond.
Out of the shadows
A charity which encourages brain injury survivors to put others first is helping them to re-find their place as valued members of society. Deborah Johnson reports.
On the road to reinvention
London actor and creative Byron Konizi has emerged from years battling the effects of brain injury with a plan to help others like him, as Andrew Mernin reports.
State of the rehab nation
The driving force of rehabilitation research in America has big plans to speed treatment development and improve skills, its outgoing president Dr Deborah Backus tells Andrew Mernin.
“Blows to the head, thrown from moving cars, strangled – it’s depressingly common”
A neuroscientist and a women’s shelter are working together to save domestic violence survivors through brain injury research. And it all started on Tinder…
Failed and forgotten in a US care home
One of America’s leading experts on disorders of consciousness sees major flaws in the way patients are being managed – in a system marred by pessimism and premature death. NR Times reports.
Escaping rehab’s ‘black box’ problem
How rehabilitation patients and research projects are being hamstrung by the field’s inability to properly characterise treatments and interventions.
Taking rehabilitation to the extreme
Neuro-rehab is going off-piste, over the waves and into shark-infested waters, as Sarah Sinclair reports.
“Surely I wasn’t the only one who felt like this”
How a freak accident and a subsequently delayed diagnosis of brain injury changed Michelle Munt’s life forever.
“Yes I have Parkinson’s, but I’m no geriatric”
Gaynor Edwards, founder of Spotlight YOPD, on her mission to change perceptions and awareness of the condition – and why the stigma has to go.
