by MRT Team | 17 November, 2013 | Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy
A recent article written in the Centre for Research in Rehabilitation1, discusses the use of Self Management after stroke. Self management is defined as “the individual’s ability to manage the symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences and lifestyle...
by MRT Team | 8 October, 2013 | Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that results in a loss of function such as mobility or feeling. Frequent causes of damage are trauma (car accident, falls, diving etc.) or disease (polio, spina bifida, Friedreich’s Ataxia etc.)2. SCI are...
by admin | 17 April, 2013 | Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy
About two-thirds of stroke sufferers across the globe survive and undergo rehabilitation. Even though rehabilitation can not reverse damage to the brain due to stroke, it certainly helps the individuals to achieve optimal independence and the best possible quality of...
by MRT Team | 18 January, 2012 | Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy
The PQRST technique helps you to study and remember a volume of written information. P is for Preview, Q for Question, R for Read, S for Summarise and state, and T for Test. To remember a volume of information, firstly try to preview it by scanning through it and...
by MRT Team | 9 January, 2012 | Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy
A mnemonic, is a memory technique that relates or pegs a sequence of familiar information to a new thing that is to be remembered. Commonly used mnemonics are verbal, such as a very short poem, visual, kinesthetic, auditory or a combination.. They work on the basis...
by MRT Team | 4 January, 2012 | Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy
Thank you to all our My Rehab Team Facebook supporters for all your comments to our last blog. This week, we’d like to discuss about visual imagery as a memory strategy. Imagery (Visual) Imagery is a fun and helpful way to stimulate memory. For this you need to...
