Birkdale Neuro Physio Archives

Amazing New Wheelchair

We found this amazing wheelchair on social media and just had to share it. It was developed by a team of 10 young medical students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, they are building it to compete in ETH’s CYBATHLON Championship for Pilots with Disabilities. It an amazing achievement to create a wheelchair that can climb stairs, it will have huge benefits to many around the world to so many people who need a wheelchair to get around each day. We especially liked the rise feature at the end of the video. If you would like to know more about...

The Role of Visual Processing in Neuro Physio Rehab

THE ROLE OF VISUAL PROCESSING IN NEURO PHYSIOTHERAPY REHABILITATION DEFINATION OF VISUAL PROCESSING “Visual processing, or perceptual, disorder refers to a hindered ability to make sense of information taken in through the eyes. This is different from problems involving sight or sharpness of vision. Difficulties with visual processing affect how visual information is interpreted or processed by the brain. This refers to the position of objects in space. It also refers to the ability to accurately perceive objects in space with reference to other objects”. These are the difficulties of the vision in neurological patients: Visual Discrimination Visual Closure Object...

Cognition, Emotion and the Cerebellum

Cognition, Emotion and the Cerebellum Why would this be of interest to OTs and Speech Therapists? I have always believed that cognition and language are integral to rehabilitation. The thought purpose is critical in planning and organisation of movements. As a neuro physiotherapist I believe the use of language is critical whether the purpose is to motivate the person or to enable them to process and understand and move. The process of planning is affected after any neurological disorder. The patient can no longer think and plan as the part of the brain that does this is affected. It is...

Visual Processing in Children with Neurological Disorder

Perceiving direction of self-motion is multi-sensory process that involves visual optic flow as well as vestibule sense. Vision provides extrinsic world based coordinate information and is used to plan spatial features of movements towards visual targets. Proprioception provides intrinsic information about limbs configuration and movements and predominates in transforming a spatial plan in to commands that results in muscle force and joint movements The importance of working with the visual processing in physiotherapy is that movements becomes more natural , the fear is reduced and this improves posture. In turn of course alignment of the body improves and the quality...