Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations for Stroke Survivors A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association can be viewed here. If you have trouble accessing the link, click here to download the pdf from the LLT website. This scientific statement provides an overview of the evidence on physical activity and exercise recommendations…
Nice piece on the BBC News site about value of exercise for stroke survivors from Prof Gillian Mead.
The Health Improvement Service at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust have just published their evaluation of the Exercise after Stroke Service delivered in a community venue during 2012-1013. The primary aim of the 12 week programme was to provide safe, effective, evidence based physical activity sessions to ambulatory stroke survivors who had completed…
Wiltshire’s Exercise after Stroke (EAS) Programme is funded by Public Health and was launched in September 2012. There are currently 9 starter classes and 4 maintenance groups across Wiltshire (May 2013). Over the past 6 months the existing Marlborough class has been transitioned into the new ‘starter’ format and 3 new locations for additional classes…
LLT’s CPD Programmes As part of our commitment to keep you current and updated with the latest research and implementation/best practice guidelines, we have two new CPD’s that ‘we feel’ would be beneficial but we really need ‘your’ feedback and interest to know if its what you would like to see. Please express your interest…
Elsevier has recently published a new ‘Exercise and Fitness Training After Stroke’ book. Edited by Professor Gillian Mead and Dr Frederike van Wijck and with contributions from the LLT team, Susie Dinan-Young, Bex Townley, Sara Paul and John Dennis, this book is a must read for all those working with stroke patients in your services.…
We are delighted to announce that Gillian Mead now has a personal Chair at the University of Edinburgh, congratulations Professor Mead! Gillian is one of the co-developers of the EfS course.
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For those of you that attended the Inaugural LLT L4 Conference, here are the photos to remind you of the fun times we had! Thanks to all our Keynotes, Tutors (Workshop Leaders), behind the scenes Office Staff, our Sponsors – BalanceMaster and HUR Fitness, and of course – YOU!.
Despite strong evidence that organised stroke care improves outcomes (Stroke Trialist Collaboration, 2003), organisational issues and resource limitation meant that many patients still do not receive adequate specialist community stroke rehabilitation. Stroke Networks are tasked with working with local agencies to ensure that specialist care is available for all appropriate patients (National Audit Office, Improving…
