Well done to the National Rehab Centre team who took part in Nottingham Hospitals Charity's annual Dragon Boat race and raised a fantastic £1,500. The money will be used to help provide the NRC with the most high-tech and specialist rehabilitation equipment, significantly improving both the rehabilitation experience and outcomes for patients.
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NRC welcomes Biomedical Engineering Professor Rui Loureiro as Research Director
Plans for rehabilitation research at the NRC are set to take another leap forward following the appointment of the NRC’s Research Director.
Professor Rui Loureiro, Head of the Department of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science at University College London, has been selected to be the new NRC Research Director and will set the research agenda for the NHS-led centre.
Through his extensive research career, Professor Loureiro has pioneered the use of technology in healthcare, particularly through robotics and virtual reality within rehabilitation for stroke patients and movement disorders, with amputees and for pain management, and also for training surgeons and planning of complex surgical procedures.
Construction of the National Rehabilitation Centre near Loughborough is continuing to take shape and the latest drone footage shows the progress of the build.
Following the formal Topping Out Ceremony last month, the roof is almost complete, and the installation of windows and external cladding has commenced.
An RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden created with the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in mind proved a hit with celebrities at this year’s event, including gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh.
Celebrities including comedian Vic Reeves, actress Aisling Bea and iconic gardener Alan Titchmarsh toured the Japanese-inspired garden throughout the first day of this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. King Charles III also toured the garden during the private royal visit.
A new intervention, led by experts in rehabilitation from the University of Nottingham, will look at how to reduce the number of falls experienced by stroke survivors in their homes.
Many people struggle with balance problems after a stroke. This is because a stroke can change the way a person’s brain controls balance. Balance problems can leave people feeling unsteady or uncoordinated.
The Falls in Stroke Survivors (FISS) study team, led by Professor Pip Logan, lead for the NRC at the University of Nottingham, and Dr Vicky Booth from the UoN School of Medicine, have received £2.2million from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) to reduce falls, fall risk and concern for falling, when stroke survivors return to their homes.
A special accessible garden created for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in mind could become a therapeutic space to help NHS patients on their recovery journey after the London show.
Nimbus Disability, a social enterprise company based in Derby, has joined forces with a variety of specialist organisations to create a Japanese-style garden for the Great Pavilion at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Following the successful celebrations of a significant construction milestone for the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), a video which captures the event is now available.
IHP, a joint venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine, hosted the formal ‘Topping Out Ceremony’ at the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough on 16 April 2024.
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