Louise Thompson
@Lou_ThompsonOT
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OT and PDOC Outreach Assessor at Walkergate Park Centre for Neurorehabilitation and Neuropsychiatry, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. All views my own.
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Joined June 2009
Just published, the @NHSEngland community rehabilitation and reablement model. Check it out here: https://t.co/pwG9s0Ebdv
@WeAHPs
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Excited to announce that the updated somatosensory assessment - the Tactile Discrimination Test - now published by @YvonneMakYuen1 , and open access! Please retweet so that therapists can access it. https://t.co/9zEPanHYGY
@LianaCahill @TheFlorey @LTUresearchers @StVincentsMelb
mdpi.com
Somatosensory loss post-stroke is common, with touch sensation characteristically impaired. Yet, quantitative, standardized measures of touch discrimination available for clinical use are currently...
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Do you know anyone with #braininjury 🧠thinking about returning to work or volunteering? This #prevocational 12 week course is free to attend for people across the #northeast ⭐️ Want to know more? Please contact Jill here 👉🏻 info@headwaytyneside.com @HelenKolster2 @AlMcD1978
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We have produced an interactive telerehab training checklist for practitioners and students. You can find it in the practitioner resources section of the Telerehab Toolkit: https://t.co/VQ45ojL4oU Please share widely!
plymouth.ac.uk
Telerehab resources for practitioners - A clinician's guide best practice for telerehabilitation.
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(I update 20-30 Covid charts every day on the situation in the UK and abroad, but don’t usually have time to tweet them these days. If in future there’s a particular chart of mine here that you want to see an updated version of, let me know and I’ll do my best to provide it.)
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Just signed up for this and very excited...this course has been on my bucket list for a long time!
Registration for 8th Queen Square Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation Course - this year 1 day and online https://t.co/CIysspRr0v It will still be worth it!
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Our VISA (Visual Impairment Screening) tool has been a popular download from our research website ( https://t.co/TYUMpPVE25). The VISA app is now available to download FREE from the Apple store: https://t.co/0SRDitCTs8…
#Vision #Stroke @FollowBIOS @RCOT_NP @TheStrokeAssoc
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So many conversations on this theme this week
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The fact we're even having to debate whether it's wrong to leave home with coronavirus and drive halfway across the country with your family to see your elderly parents is itself gaslighting on a whole new level
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I’ve been informed about an excellent project offering self-management sessions to help people with ABI and other long term conditions cope during lockdown. They are being run by Dr Stephanie Kilinc every Thursday at 3pm on Microsoft Teams. More info:
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OTs with experience working in #stroke please see our survey on post-stroke fatigue (takes 10 mins to complete). Fully understand there are a lot more concerning issues right now but hopefully this will be a welcome distraction. Thanks in advance! https://t.co/hqnjpr2FFU
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A very compassionate guide for those making the most difficult phone calls during Covid19
Here’s a short guide to compassionate phone communication and sharing uncertainty during COVID-19 that myself and colleagues developed (thanks to @jimfieldsmith for design input). Please use and share widely. @WestMidHospital @ChelwestFT @drkathrynmannix #covid19UK #pallicovid
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Thank you to everyone who got involved with the #ClapForCarers! Tonight we had @northumbriapol and @Tyne_Wear_FRS raise their sirens for all key workers. Everyone is doing a fantastic job in these challenging times 💙 #ThankYouThursday
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🌟FREE LIVE STREAMED TEACHING DATES ⬇️ 🌟Mon 22nd 10.30 Acute AIRVO/HFOT 🌟 Mon 22nd 12:00 airway clearance CF & Non CF 🌟Tues 23rd 12:00 NIV Home & Acute devices 🌟Wed 24th 12:00 OT/PT Mobilisation combo 🌟Thurs 25th 12:00 Resp Rehab @ home 🌟Fri 26th 12:00 Psychology
Due to the overwhelming feedback on this already we are planning our next sessions. Please let us know what is helpful and we will do what we can. NIV and cough assist being planned next week. These are basic updates turned around quick!
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#PDOC A1 It helps using a standardised assessment tool and the RCP diagnostic guidelines, however it is a complex assessment process and still requires advanced clinical reasoning
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Implementing #cimt - now online early in @AusOTJournal after several years of work 👏🏻👏🏻- thx to clinician researcher OTs across Australia https://t.co/OCk6MZREna. 16 programs delivered at 3 sites, all student-assisted, in public health, 360 reps/hr, ~13,000 reps/program
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Opinions vary on this.
DW. A paper on experience of fatigue after brain injury suggests socialising & doing meaningful activities "provided incentives for participants to push through their fatigue." Patients should avoid 'pacing', and plan pushing. https://t.co/XhctDi6AaE Fatigue is multi-dimensional.
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Well done! @SharonFKramer and I cannot wait to emerge from the shrubbery for our #timing review of upper limb therapy after #stroke. 9747 abstracts/titles and 1154 full text articles screened ... now onto extraction and synthesis!
link.springer.com
Systematic Reviews - Improving upper limb (UL) motor recovery after stroke represents a major clinical and scientific goal. We aim to complete three systematic reviews to estimate the (1)...
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