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Society for Research in Rehabilitation(SRR) -Winter Meeting 2025
An SSR conference was held at Essex University on the 15th of January 2025 that allowed its visitors a glimpse of the organization's equipment and facilities dedicated to the advancement of neurorehabilitation.
A Tour through Neurorehabilitation
"I arrived the day before for a networking event." our colleague Maggie Murphy said as she recounts her experience in attending the conference. The hosting organization, the Society for Research in Rehabilitation(SRR) is a special interest group with members from a multitude of different disciplines that have united with a common interest in for rehabilitation research. The event she took part in also consisted a tour of a new building in the university campus which served as a health, wellbeing, and Care Hub, a testament to their commitment in the development of neurorehabilitation along with their dedicated spaces and impressive state of the art equipment and facilities. The hub as explained by attending Professor Andrew Bateman, has started to offer interdisciplinary group placements as an effort to increase educational impact through increasing placement opportunities for students while also allowing local people to benefit by receiving care. These placements have a specific focus on Acquired Brain Injury(ABI) for occupational therapy, physiotherapy, as well as speech and language therapy. The students take part in the delivery of these services, closely supported by the hub's expert clinical team.
"We heard how the Hub was established with the support of NHS England and in collaboration with regional NHS Integrated Care Boards as a centre of excellence in health and care-related research and workforce development." Maggie added.
"The conference itself was a delightful immersion." Maggie says as she describes the conference filled with posters and presentations on every corner, each tackling the topic of neurorehabilitation under the central theme of 'Technology in Rehabilitation'.
"I particularly liked the presentations and posters that focused on the development of interventions and measures." Maggie added. In particular, what caught her interest are the projects that could be implemented into care practice relatively quickly. Some of the presentations that stood out to her included:
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An exploratory study that looked at the use of virtual reality for relaxation and pain relief within in-patient neurorehabilitation.
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The development of and validation of the neuro-rehab professional caregiver burden scale(PCBS-Neuro)
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