All Stories

  1. Learning from the past to plan for the future
  2. Understanding fragility fractures caused by the 'silent disease'
  3. The risk of sustaining Musculoskeletal injuries can be reduced by correct handling of patients.
  4. Deafness is commoner than we realise as it is a 'hidden condition'.
  5. The more you try to sleep, the more difficult it can be to achieve
  6. Covid-19 created many changes to the lifestyle and working practices of many people.
  7. The impact of osteoporosis
  8. Understanding autism and reasons for behaviour issues.
  9. Looking at alternation forms of seating during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  10. Coping with stress
  11. Helping movement patterns to improve mobility in patients who suffer from parkinsonian symptoms.
  12. Enabling care home residents and older people to exercise.
  13. The emotional side of moving into a care home
  14. Understanding why it is important for older people to maintain physical activity.
  15. The role of the expert witness from a practitioner's viewpoint
  16. Helping patients to sleep well
  17. How arthritis affects the body is explained and ways care staff can assist residents.
  18. Sleep process, insomnia and treatments to help improve the quality of sleep are outlined.
  19. Looking at the patient's journey though the care service
  20. Why reducing salt in a diet is important.
  21. Encouraging exercise for older people
  22. Hand dysfunction and managing daily living activities
  23. Hand dysfunction - encouraging development.
  24. The world at your finger tips: how the hand functions
  25. Explaining how to identify the risks of falling.
  26. Understanding patients sleep disorders
  27. How to develop reminiscence as an activity in the care home for patients with dementia.
  28. Dementia and reminiscence: not just a focus on the past
  29. The vital role HCAs and APs in the rehabilitation of a head-injured patient is explored.
  30. Preventing fractures
  31. The management of over-sized patients in emergency care is outlined.
  32. Explains how to prevent, reduce and manage falls in a care home.
  33. A guide to head injuries.
  34. Ways to help people sleep.
  35. Understanding why sleep problems occur.
  36. The natural effect of ageing on the musculoskeletal system is explained.
  37. The anatomy of the spine and structural problems
  38. This article outlines the causes and effects of childhood obesity.
  39. How to set up a recreational programme for people with dementia.
  40. The causes of osteoporosis and ways that healthcare staff can be proactive in its prevention.
  41. How to facilitate dressing
  42. Understanding how abnormal movement patterns occur.
  43. Explaining the common causes of fatigue and energy-saving methods
  44. The common triggers of stress and its effects
  45. Making mealtimes more enjoyable
  46. Exercise can play an importance part in fall-prevention.
  47. How motor neurone disease affect daily living activities
  48. Making dressing easier
  49. MND current treatment and treatments undergoing clinical trials are discussed.
  50. An explanation of Motor Neurone Disease
  51. Ways to help people with balance and coordination issues
  52. Explaining the bodily mechanisms involved in balance
  53. How to use alternative methods and assistive equipment to facilitate tasks
  54. Understanding how heart disease can be prevented and its treatment.
  55. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is explained.
  56. Mobility and how to detect movement disorders are explained.
  57. The psychological effects of pain and alternative forms of treatment.
  58. Methods of relieving pain.
  59. Understanding pain symptoms.
  60. Understanding how pain affects quality of life.
  61. How to minimise fall risk in the environment.
  62. The treatment and management of Bariatric patients.
  63. Improving care of the joints in the human body.
  64. Obesity is a risk factor for several diseases that are major causes of morbidity and mortality.
  65. Understanding why the incidence of excessive weight gain is rising.
  66. How to identify perceptual problems when observing daily living activities.
  67. Ways of using different techniques, equipment or structural alterations to increase independence.
  68. the causes of pain are explored and how they affect residents, and how to assess pain levels.
  69. Preventing falls due to slips and trips.
  70. Simple ways to prevent falls
  71. Exploring how the brain interprets information to enable us to respond meaningfully to it
  72. How to help deafblind people manage activities of daily living.
  73. Explaining dual sensory impairment.
  74. Methods of making gardening tasks easier.
  75. Making gardening tasks easier to manage.
  76. Coping strategies can be tried to reduce the impact of tinnitus.
  77. Ways to enable residents to enjoy outdoor living spaces.
  78. The symptoms of tinnitus, and factors that can contribute to it, are explained.
  79. Minimising hearing problems by addressing negative environmental factors.
  80. Explaining where occupational therapists work, their training and varied roles.
  81. Ways to overcome hearing loss using alternative communication and assistive equipment
  82. An introduction to Pilates
  83. The importance of good posture and the long term effect of poor posture.
  84. The process of hearing and causes of hearing impairments.
  85. Ensuring good seating positioning
  86. Helping to assess the impact of visual impairments on patients.
  87. Practical advice on how to help residents hold a writing implement.
  88. Explaining the mechanics of vision.
  89. Ways of making the physical aspect of driving a vehicle easier.
  90. How to start a creative writing group.
  91. Common driving problems are explored.
  92. How Ankylosing Spondylitis affects a person's daily life is explored and coping method are outlined.
  93. The history of creative writing.
  94. Ankylosing Spondylitis, a disease of the connective tissue of the joints, is explained.
  95. How to write for publications is explained.
  96. Surgery, therapeutic intervention and practical ways to overcome problems are outlined.
  97. Introducing some ideas for storing and presenting photographs.
  98. How to develop life-skill stations in a care home is explored.
  99. The degenerative condition of cervical spondylosis is explained.
  100. Understanding how OA affects daily living activities.
  101. Explaining the principles of Reiki
  102. Explaining osteoarthritis.
  103. Reflecting on the past with reminiscence activities.
  104. How the environment can hinder people who have suffered from a stroke.
  105. Helping residnets who have physical and /or cognitive problems to dress.
  106. How to help a person regain function after a stroke
  107. Creating memories from jewellery.
  108. Helping patients to manage daily life after a stoke.
  109. Using music in various scenarios in a care home.
  110. Explaining what causes a stroke.
  111. Understanding how music impacts on moods and memories.
  112. Understanding fatigue and how to reduce its impact.
  113. Explaining the wide range of movement disorders that exist.
  114. Designing homes with Smart Technology to assist disabled people.
  115. Why fall prevention is important?
  116. How multiple sclerosis affects daily life.
  117. How to help prevent falls in a care home.
  118. Overcoming feeding difficulties.
  119. Exploring how deafblindness affects daily life.
  120. Explaining multiple sclerosis
  121. Explaining the effects of loss of vision and hearing.
  122. Equipment that can help with loss of vision.
  123. Making life easier to manage for patients with Parkinson's disease.
  124. Understanding Parkinson's disease
  125. How to make the environment suitable for people with visual problems.
  126. Mechanics of vision and common visual impairments
  127. Understanding the causes of Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism.
  128. Treatments for tinnitus.
  129. A review of the advances in telecare products.
  130. Explaining the different types of hearing aids and useful assistive devices
  131. Preventing hearing damage by environmental changes.
  132. Identifying deafness.
  133. Explaining osteoarthritis,
  134. Ensuring the design of everyday items helps people with disability
  135. How to help sufferers of Rheumatoid Arthritis manage daily living more easily
  136. How rheumatoid arthritis affects a person.
  137. How to reduce fall risks.
  138. Fall prevention
  139. Using telecare products in the care home setting.
  140. The importance of the correct mobility aid.
  141. Explaining the wide range of mobility problems that can occur
  142. Helping residents to manage personal grooming.
  143. How the environment can help or hinder residents management and orientation.
  144. How multiple sclerosis affects daily living skills.
  145. Multiple sclerosis and its impact is explained.
  146. Turning skin care into a spa experience.
  147. How to help residnets to relax and to sleep well.
  148. Helping resident to continue gardening as a hobby.
  149. Making garden areas full of stimulation
  150. How to help stroke survivors manage life more easily using equipment and adaptations.
  151. Learning normal movement techniques
  152. How to help recovery post-stroke.
  153. Ways to help disabled people to bathe and shower.
  154. How to help reduce the risk of a stroke
  155. Making showering pleasurable.
  156. Ways to promote urinary incontinence.
  157. How to minimise bathing difficulties.
  158. How to minimise the physical problems of accessing a toilet.
  159. How to help mobility when a person has Parkinson's disease.
  160. Understanding the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
  161. How cognitive problems affect the ability to get dressed.
  162. How to help residents be more independent in this daily task by using dressing aids.
  163. Making feeding easier to manage.
  164. Equipment for living: The value of assistive devices
  165. Explaining the single assessment process.
  166. Helping to make daily living easier by looking at access issues.
  167. Eliminating physical barriers that make people disabled.
  168. Making slight changes in methods to increase independence in daily living activities.
  169. Using the Internet to communicate
  170. Using recreational activities in a care home.
  171. How to assess a resident in relation to practical activities.
  172. How to prepare for and provide a movement to music session.