Um esquema de sucesso para ajudar lesões cerebrais e sobreviventes de derrame está sendo lançado através de Lancashire e South Cumbria, graças ao novo financiamento de uma instituição de caridade nacional. £ 180.000 da Charity Recuperação de Lesões Cerebrais Same You para expandir o projeto piloto. Neurorehabilitation, foi criado porque a pandemia COVID-19 afetou o número de pacientes que poderiam acessar o tratamento do NHS presencial. Também funciona para o ELHT. Ela disse: "Estou absolutamente encantado que nosso esquema está sendo lançado para ajudar mais pessoas que tiveram um derrame ou terem outras condições neurológicas em toda a região. NROL is all about using video technology to support patients, via a range of different groups covering cognitive and physical recovery, in their homes to ensure they can continue their recovery.”
The Neuro Rehabilitation OnLine (NROL) programme, which is jointly run by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has received nearly £180,000 from brain injury recovery charity SameYou to expand the pilot project.
SameYou has been awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, and will enable the scheme to be rolled out through Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The scheme, which uses online video sessions to provide one-to-one and group specialist neurorehabilitation, was created because the Covid-19 pandemic affected the number of patients who could access face-to-face NHS treatment.
Due to the pilot scheme’s success earlier this year, which involved 90 ELHT patients, the programme will now be rolled out to patients within the two counties.
Project lead Louise Connell is a UCLan Professor of Allied Health Neurorehabilitation & Stroke and she also works for ELHT. She said: “I’m absolutely delighted our scheme is being rolled out to help more people who’ve had a stroke or have other neurological conditions throughout the region.
“We know that, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, people with stroke and other brain injuries are spending less time in hospital and receiving less neurorehabilitation. NROL is all about using video technology to support patients, via a range of different groups covering cognitive and physical recovery, in their homes to ensure they can continue their recovery.”
Cogs in Motion, a cognitive rehabilitation group looking at brain education, memory, attention and information processing; Simply Speaking, a conversational skills group, and a physical group working on mobility, balance, strength and stamina will be among the available sessions. In addition, all patients will be invited to Sessões semanais de cafés nrol que oferecem a oportunidade para a discussão em grupo geral. Trust. Initially he was unable to speak for two-and-a-half weeks and was paralysed down the right-hand side of his body, meaning he could no longer hold his baby son Eesa, who had arrived in December 2020.
The county wide scheme will involve physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, speech and language therapists and medical and assistant practitioners from ELHT, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
One of those who attended the pilot programme was Abdul Malik, who suffered a brain haemorrhage and seizure at his home in Burnley in May last year. Initially he was unable to speak for two-and-a-half weeks and was paralysed down the right-hand side of his body, meaning he could no longer hold his baby son Eesa, who had arrived in December 2020.
The 37-year-old, who was the youngest patient in his sessions, said: “I attended two NROL sessions a week to help with my upper limb movement and before I started, I struggled to move my arm at all but by No final do programa, pude segurar meu braço pelo meu corpo, o que significa que eu poderia segurar meu filho novamente. Os fisioteros e terapeutas ocupacionais foram muito úteis e nos fizeram sentir confortáveis. Os pacientes estavam enfrentando os mesmos problemas de movimento físico, então nossas sessões nos permitiram conversar sobre nossos problemas e também nos tornamos amigos. ”
“NROL was a lifeline because I was seeing familiar faces twice a week online at a time when Covid-19 was stopping me from seeing anybody outside of my house. The physios and occupational therapists were very helpful and made us all feel comfortable. The patients were experiencing the same physical movement problems so our sessions allowed us to talk about our issues and we became friends too.”
Se o lançamento regional for considerado um sucesso, um programa nacional nrol poderá seguir em breve. O Professor Connell acrescentou: “Os serviços de terapia continuam o processo de restauração pós-Covid e é necessário entender o aprendizado da reabilitação on-line para determinar seu lugar no futuro. Prevê-se que seja um modelo híbrido de face a face e virtual, que permitirá uma maior intensidade de terapia a ser entregue a mais pessoas e de uma maneira mais conveniente.” A mesma instituição de caridade, que foi criada pela atriz Emilia Clarke depois de sofrer duas hemorragias cerebrais com risco de vida enquanto trabalhava no set para Game of Thrones. Destacado. Isso fará uma grande diferença para a vida das pessoas. ”
The expansion of the scheme would not have been possible without funding from the SameYou charity, which was set up by actress Emilia Clarke after she suffered two life threatening brain haemorrhages whilst working on set for Game of Thrones.
Jenny Clarke, Co-Founder & CEO of SameYou, said: “The provision of neurorehabilitation after brain injury doesn’t meet the urgent need. Group tele-rehab has been proven to add capacity and reach people who are underserved. The expansion of this scheme would not have been possible without the National Lottery funding. This grant means that we can continue our work with UCLan and ELHT to support more people, and help them take back their places in their families, communities and society after a brain injury. This will make a big difference to people’s lives.”
