A road leading to the beyond
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The Need

Restoration and Rehabilitation are critical steps in maximising function following neurological injury.

Physical and psychological rehabilitation techniques along with regenerative medicines improve long term health.

Restoring normal brain function following a neurological injury can be a long process. Many patients who have suffered from brain injury have difficulties making long journeys to clinics and hospitals. By supporting innovative rehabilitation solutions at home, we hope to provide accessible care for those who need it most.

Where these solutions are less suitable, there is a need to create pathways to provide accessible rehabilitation more locally for patients on their recovery journey.

The Need

Restoration is a critical step in maximising function following neurological injury.

Physical and psychological rehabilitation techniques along with regenerative medicines must be used to improve long term health.

Restoring normal brain function following a neurological injury can be a long process. Many patients who have suffered from brain injury have difficulties making long journeys to clinics and hospitals. By supporting innovative rehabilitation solutions at home, we hope to provide accessible care for those who need it most.

Where these solutions are less effective, there is a need to create pathways to provide accessible clinical care more locally for patients on their recovery journey.

How can we help?

Over the last few years, technology has made huge advances. At-home devices can track movement for specialist physical rehabilitation and assistive phone apps can help support psychological rehabilitation. Combining different rehabilitation approaches can dramatically improve long-term recovery. We can maximise independence in everyday activity by focusing on, for example:

  1. Supporting bespoke rehabilitation interventions, targeted cognitive assessments, and frameworks for systematic evaluation.
  2. Utilisation of human cellular models of disease.
  3. Evaluation of neuroprotective agents, surgical approaches, and targeted therapies.

The Team

Dr Valerie Pomeroy
Dr Valerie PomeroyTheme Lead
Professor Valerie Pomeroy holds the Chair in Neurorehabilitation at UEA and has a longstanding track record in the development of rehabilitation interventions, with particular expertise in development and evaluation of physical rehabilitation technologies for stroke and related disorders.
Dr Mark Kotter
Dr Mark KotterCo-theme Lead
Dr Mark Kotter is an academic and clinical leader in the management of degenerative cervical myelopathy and evaluation of neuroprotective treatments, as well as champion of patient engagement and involvement in this condition through the myelopathy.org charity and JLA PSPs. He is also a scientist and entrepreneur in regenerative medicine, with the commercialisation of gene technology through BitBio for generating bespoke cell lines for translational research.

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