ABIRA (the Acquired Brain Injury Recovery Alliance) focuses on development and evaluation of rehabilitation interventions to enhance people’s recovery after brain injury.
Their distinctive approach merges neuroscience, neurorehabilitation, and clinical practice. Specifically, they aim to increase understanding of the neural mechanisms of recovery, using this to improve interventions and technologies that will transform clinical practice. People with brain injury play a key role in our research through the co-production of questions and outputs for clinical impact. The MoveExLab facility enables the study of biomechanical and neurophysiological correlates of the movement required for everyday tasks.
By measuring the brain’s connection with muscles and better understanding motor control strategies, they target recovery mechanisms and produce technology that will ultimately improve rehabilitation outcomes. Their partnerships with local, national and international service users, as well as advocacy organisations, clinicians, health service providers and industry, help support their research and cater to the unmet needs of those with brain injury.
To find out more, please contact Val Pomeroy.