Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital:
- Acquired brain injury (traumatic & CVA [ischaemic & haemorrhagic])
- Persistent vegetative state (PVS) & low arousal state
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Coventry and Warwick Hospital - lower limb musculoskeletal outpatients
- Osteoarthritis (OA)
- Ligamentous injuries/sprains
- Fractures
- Joint replacements - e.g. total knee replacements (TKR)
- Muscle ruptures & strains
- Pre & Post op education and rehabilitation
- Biomechanical gait problems
- Plantar fasciitis
- Devising and leading exercise groups - e.g. OA knee, TKR post-op, "back to sport"
Walsgrave Hospital - rheumatology
- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
- Spondylarthropathies
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
- Myositis
- Scleraderma
- Devising and leading exercise classes - e.g. RA class, relaxation, education
Amersham Hospital - care of the elderly day hospital and rehabilitation ward
- Vascular amputations - all stages of rehab and gait re-ed with prosthesis
- Inclusion body myositis
- Parkinsons Disease (PD)
- CVA
- Complex multipathologies due to age of patients
- Falls prevention
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital - thoracic surgery (inc. HDU)
- Lobectomies (e.g. for lung cancer)
- Pneumonectomies
- Thoracic trauma (e.g. post RTA and stabbings)
- Spontaneous pneumothorax
- Oesophageal trauma (e.g. ingested fish-hook)
- Post-op complications e.g. pneumonia/chest infections, surgical emphysema
- Chronic obstuctive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Pectus excavatum repairs
Extra experience at Heartlands with medical staff:
- Observed a video-assisted thoracotomy and lobectomy in theatre
- Performed manual hyperinflation ("bagging") under supervision of anaesthetist
- Assisted SHO with intercostal drain insertion
- Participated in thoracic surgery practical - I was the only student permitted
Warwick Hospital - musculoskeletal outpatients (spinal and peripheral)
- Chronic lower back pain
- Acute back pain - Maitland method of management
- Recurrent patella dislocations
- Recurrent shoulder dislocations
- Neck pain (inc. whiplash)
- "Medial & lateral epicondylitis" - usually originating from cervical spine!
- Fractures
- Sprains and strains
- Impingement syndromes
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