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Builder on the mend thanks to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
A building contractor is on the road to recovery thanks to a special new piece of equipment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Ian Campbell, from Fulwood, hurt himself after falling off a roof and badly injuring his arm and wrist.
But thanks to the help he has received from Occupational Therapists at Northern General Hospital and a new machine called a
Primus, he has improved significantly.
The
Primus enables patients to simulate specific movements that relate to their day-to-day working lives - such as using a ladder or screwdriver.
Mr Campbell said he was delighted with the progress he had made since using the new equipment.
He said: "I could hardly move my arm at all let alone start thinking about getting back to work but I’m making such good progress now."
"Staff in the Occupational Therapy department have been wonderful and I’m really starting to see some benefits from the sessions although I realise it may be a long process."
"The great thing about this new piece of equipment is that it supports you so you can closely simulate the movements you do in your working life -which is so important on helping me get back to work and feeling confident again.
The £50,000 piece of equipment was purchased by the Trust thanks to the kind donations from Westfield Contributory Health Scheme, Dan’s Funds for Burns and the Women's Royal Voluntary Servce.
Susan Warwick, a Senior Occupational Therapist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said her department was very grateful to the organisations who donated the money for the equipment.
She said: "It is wonderful to be able to offer our patients this service and we would like to say a big thank you to the people who helped raise the money for the
Primus."
"The equipment is very useful and will be a great benefit to many patients in the future."
Source:
http://www.sth.nhs.uk/news/5-3-primus.php
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IPRS MEDIQUIPE GO LARGE 
IPRS Mediquipe attended this year’s Congress in the state of the art BT Convention Centre, Liverpool and for the first time ever we had on display the full complement of both the Biodex and BTE equipment - no mean feat given the size and weight of the equipment.
We were lucky enough to have the support of both the President of BTE Technologies, US, Chuck Wetherington and Clinical Director, Ken Johnson for the duration, enabling attending CSP Delegates, existing BTE users as well as prospective purchasers the opportunity of hands-on demonstrations and training sessions.
Congress 2009 saw the launch of the new Biodex
BioSway - a portable piece of equipment for both assessment and training in measuring proprioception, which is an ideal piece of equipment for community work and environments where space is a premium.
Is there a place for isokinetics in modern rehabilitation?
IPRS Mediquipe recently hosted three seminars in Dublin, Birmingham and Manchester with regards to "
isokinetics in modern rehabilitation". The key notes speaker was Dr George J Davies, who has presented hundreds of conferences throughout the world on sports physiotherapy, athletic training, shoulder, knee, open and closed kinetic chain topics, orthopaedics and rehabilitation. He has been involved in the clinical practice of sports physiotherapy/athletic training, since he was a student athletic trainer, for over 42 years. In 1984 he wrote ‘A compendium of isokinetic clinical usage’ and is one of the top experts in this subject area.
Other speakers were Dr Marie-Elaine Grant, Dave Fevre, Dr Joe Dunbar and Professor Bill Baltzopoulos.
All three events were well attended, and we are already planning an event for 2010. For information on the topics discussed, please see the below attachments. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information on presentations, demonstrations or equipment.
Dr George Davies
Dave Fevre - Blackburn Rovers Head Physio
Dr Marie-Elaine Grant - Head Physiotherapist for Irish Olympic Team Beijing 2008
Prof Bill Baltzopoulos - Manchester Metropolitan University