Neurology

💚For my MSc Pre-registration Occupational Therapy dissertation, I’m exploring how prepared newly qualified OTs feel to deliver evidence-based stroke rehabilitation in clinical practice. 💚

If you:

🧠Qualified as an OT in the past two years in the UK, and

🧠Have current or previous post-qualification experience in stroke rehabilitation,

Please feel free to participate by clicking the link below, which will take you to the survey (~10 minutes).

Please read the participant information sheet before starting.

Hi I would like to help elementary students who are failing behind, as my career. Do you think OT is the solution?

Hi everyone. I've been meaning to put thoughts down on paper (well, keyboard!) for some time... As an OT working in neuro-rehab, two words arise frequently with other clinicians and patients: 'Neuroplasticity' and the concept of the recovery 'plateau'. As therapists, we are passionately driven by the former. Whereas the latter concept - that progress tails off after a period of time - is arguable, usually unhelpful and very often not due to the patient themselves. My new article explains why we 'love and loathe' these two words respectively. Take a read here (open access on the Hub):

Rehabilitation: Neuroplasticity and challenging the Recovery 'Plateau'

Hello All!

I have an adult patient who suffered a stroke that has reported issues with her visual processing and visual processing speed. She has completed the MVPT with pretty fair accuracy and had nothing out of the norm in her standard vision screen. The patient also has issues with motor planning/apraxia (attempted to tie her shoes by bringing her left hand to her left shoe and right hand to her right shoe but wasn't sure why she wasn't able to tie her shoes). Prior to her injury, she was a very successful business woman who lived a full life working and traveling.

Should further visual processing testing be done? If so, what assessments would you all recommend? I'm thinking we track her visual processing speeds and try to quicken her pace with a variety of activities.

Thanks everyone!

Hi All, I have been working in paediatrics my entire career, focusing on sensory integration, specifically motor skills, including dyspraxia and DCD. I am intrigued by neurology and the processes involved in motor planning, integrating senses such as proprioception and vestibular, and how they affect the functions and development of children.

Is anybody else working in these fields?

Hi All,

I am new to this circle and Neuro :-).

I am a third year degree apprentice OT, and am hoping to engage with neuro as a specialist area for my final year, and post qualification. Hoping to engage with lots of interesting neuro chat and ideas.

I have begun to develop my reading around this topic but would be really glad to have any nuggets of wisdom, useful assessment ideas/ strategies, journal articles, books etc...

My are of work is community adult rehab.

Hoping to get to know this community really well 😁

📢Are you a HCPC (UK) registered occupational therapist working in the acute physical hospital setting?

Share your opinion on occupational balance⚖️🫵🏼

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I am investigating the relationship between occupational balance of OTs working in the hospital setting with social and organisational working conditions as part of my MSc research. I greatly appreciate your participation. Please do send this link to other OTs that are eligible for this study according to the Inclusion Criteria stated in the poster.

City, St George’s UoL REC reference no: 2024.0337.

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Hi,

I work in the UK in the South Coast - and since qualifying in 2010 have nearly exclusively worked with neurology - brain injury, stroke and neurological conditons. I love this field of work as it is a challenge and each individuals presentation varies - but often we can really help as OT's in seeing positive improvements in function and ability to engage in meaningful activities with increased automomy... but conversely when someone has a deteriorating condition we can help set the environement to support them continue to engage even as their abilities decline.

I am looking forward to hearing what others are up to and engaging in conversations with other OT's, as I now work in indepedent pratice - which I love, but which means I don't work along other OT's very often these days!

Danni

Kia ora

I from New Zealand/ Aotearoa.

I am an OT who has only worked in mental health until the start of this year. I work now in the inpatient unit of a rural hospital . My goal is to continue to learn re Neuro rehab , and, I hope to start an activity based rehab group as we are very short staffed and I also need to attend to acute referrals - so often in times of high acuity I lose time to follow up with rehab pts. :-(

Exciting to see these circles happen. I really look forward to connecting with everyone.

Nga mihi nui

Helen

Hi,

I’m a newly qualified OT (April) but I have a keen interest in OT within the neuro setting.

I had a 3 month rotation in a neuro outpatient clinic, and loved it. I also had the opportunity to attend the UCL upper limb neuro rehabilitation training in London this year which was a great experience.

I’m looking forward to learning more about the setting and welcome any suggestions for further training courses!

Rhianne

Hi all! I'm the Hub's Founder/Director and have a keen interest in neurology. So I thought I'd introduce myself in this new OT Circle... I work clinically day-to-day as Specialist Neurological Occupational Therapist in an outpatient rehabilitation clinic in Bristol, UK. Alongside physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and psychology, we integrate neuro-technology with more conventional functional rehab. The aim of this is to maximise neuroplastic potential and outcomes for adults - affected by stroke, TBI, concussion, SCI and other neurological conditions. I have also worked in an inpatient brain injury rehabilitation unit and have experience within a stroke early supported discharge (ESD) team. I'm keen to connect with other like-minded clinicians here. So do reach out and introduce yourself!