University College London
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Nick Ward is a Professor of Clinical Neurology & Neurorehabilitation at UCL Institute of Neurology and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. He is lead of the first dedicated upper limb neurorehabilitation programme in the UK. He also runs a research programme using structural and functional brain imaging to understand the mechanisms of recovery of movement after stroke so that we might predict both optimal treatments of upper limb impairment and long term outcomes after stroke. He is Co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Neurorehabilitation and is Associate Editor of both the Journal for Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.

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Session Type
Debate
Date
29.10.2021, Friday
Session Time
10:00 - 11:30
Room
DEBATES
Lecture Time
10:00 - 10:35

Abstract

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Intense rehabilitation after stroke and other forms of acquired brain injury (ABI) can lead to large clinical improvements. Despite this, most stroke patients do not receive enough neurorehabilitation. The arrival of Covid-19 in early 2020 further reduced opportunities to receive rehabilitation, but it did lead to a spike in interest, innovation and delivery in various forms of telerehabilitation. I will describe two telerehabilitation programmes that were designed and delivered in response to Covid-19. Firstly, Neurorehabilitation OnLine (N-ROL), which involved input from physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, neuropsychology and neurology, delivered exclusively online and to groups of between 3 and 15 stroke patients. Secondly, Queen Square Upper Limb Online Neurorehabilitation programme, a 4 -week programme of physiotherapy and occupational therapy delivered mostly online either one-to-one or in groups. I will present the results from each programme and discuss (i) the possible active ingredients, (ii) what we can learn from their implementation and (iii) whether there is a role for this form of telerehabilitation in future.

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