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Why I will never be a great writer. It’s taken me a long time to work it out, but I think I now know why I’ll never be a great writer.  It’s because, for my first eighty years at least, my life has been too happy, too comfortable; I haven't suffered enough. It could...

Physiotherapy is all about improving and maintaining movement, and that’s why it’s a treatment that is very useful to people with cerebral palsy. Movement can become limited for people suffering from this condition if the proper treatment, including physiotherapy, is...

A stroke can effect your whole body. This can be keeping your head up, keeping it in the middle or you might not know or feel where the middle of your body is; you might not able to sit independently. Stroke Symptoms Sufferers of strokes will find that their arm...

I previously attended the NEC at Birmingham for the Therapy Expo, when I see two men wearing funny suits, which left me rather intrigued. They called it the 'Mollii Suit' and went on to explain that a little electricity passes through the suit, to the body, to the...

I met Mr. D in January 2015 in our outpatient department in Kings Norton Birmingham. He just had the devastating news that he had Parkinson's. He had several problems: Frozen shoulder with a pain due to very poor arm swing. Tremor in mainly his left hand. Unable to...

Mrs M and I met in December 2013 after she suffered a stroke and was in need of stroke treatment. This had left her with a severe right side weakness of her arm and her leg. Also her trunk was very weak. Luckily her speech and understanding was intact. She was in very...