“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…
Category: Interviews
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. But the tide may be turning, Dr John Whyte tells NR Times.
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.
“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.
Sky high ambition
A young entrepreneur from Bristol is aiming to revolutionise air travel for disabled people, including those affected by brain and spinal injuries and conditions.
Why the Arni way is up
Dr Tom Balchin’s mission to help UK stroke survivors was forged in tragedy. In late 1996, his twin...
Drew’s accessible gym revolution
Former athlete Drew Graham has opened a specialist gym for people who face the long road to recovery.
Vital rehab role under threat
“Numbers are our biggest challenge as a profession,” says Diane Playford as she ponders the...
Food for thought
Serious injury triggers a small army of professionals into action. Each one plays their part as...
Saving lives in the concrete jungle
Skating fanatic Rob Glanville’s life- changing injury wasn’t the result of some perilous stunt...
Court in the storm
When the rape of a Manchester woman with learning difficulties came to trial in 2012, everything...
