Sally’s PhD explores a condition called metabolic syndrome, a collection of risk factors that in combination significantly raise the risk of chronic disease. Physiotherapists are well positioned to identify and manage this condition as it can be reduced or even reversed with lifestyle modification like physical activity.
Throughout May, the AWRC’s Training and Education team inspired the next generation of nurses by delivering a simulated placement opportunity to final-year students. This allowed the team to work with a large cohort of over 500 students from mental health, adult, and children’s nursing as they near the end of their studies.
Hosted by the AWRC’s neurological rehabilitation research theme, this seminar explored technological solutions to the challenges surrounding exercise and physical activity for people living with a neurological impairment, including examples from co-design and clinical implementation studies.
This seminar, hosted by the AWRC’s Technological and Digital Innovations to Promote Independent Lives research theme, showcased research into sssistive robotic systems which have the potential to support various health and care services, help independent living, and even simulate affection to reduce loneliness.