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Mirror Therapy and Stroke Rehabilitation

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

This will be the topic that Fizah and I will be doing for our manuscript for the OCT4NRE module. We are now in the phase of summarising the literature and tomorrow, we will attempt to critique the current literature.
Mirror therapy has been used for patients with phantom pain, complex regional pain syndrome etc. However, use [...]

Lecture by Prof. Carolyn Baum

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I attended a lecture by Prof Carolyn Baum just now on Participation & Performance in Person’s with Stroke. In her research with the Cognitive Rehabilitation Research Group, they focus more on linking neuroscience to everyday life. That’s their motto.
I found out several new, amazing stuffs they had discovered in their research with stroke patients in [...]

FIM Training Course

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Hi there!
School has been great so far. The main highlight of the day was the FIM training course. FIM, Functional Independence Measure, is used widely in Singapore and I guess, globally in the healthcare industry as it uses common terminology for the understanding of various healthcare professions.
I had the training just now from 1 to [...]

Of Hoists and Seating

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Hi all!
It’s been 3 weeks of school. One thing I have to say is… there’s LOTS and LOTS of readings! Expected actually. I’m trying to keep up with weekly readings of all modules but it seems to be quite hard to do that. This is especially so for the Illness and Spirituality module. It takes [...]

Lessons Begin

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Hi all,
First week of school has been great. I must say that it’s pretty slacked. Not many readings to do as yet. In addition, assignments have not been touched yet. The bookshop was then the shop that I went the most number of times to check out the necessary manuals and textbooks. Gosh! They are [...]