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Supporting the Adaptive Heavyweights at Stirling Highland Games

ACUK are proud to be supporting three years of Adaptive Heavyweight Competition at Stirling Highland Games. This year 6 athletes from the Wounded Highlanders will compete with the hopes of breaking some new world records.

The Wounded Highlanders is the only UK adaptive Highland Games team, with over 30 athletes in the squad who are injured military veterans, with injuries from limb loss to brain injury to PTSD.

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6 Part Lunchtime Webinar Series - Electrical Stimulation for Denervated Muscle

In six, succinct, Thursday lunchtime sessions, we will explore how electrical stimulation techniques can enhance the well-being of individuals with denervated muscles. Whether caused by peripheral nerve injuries or lower motor neuron damage in the spinal cord, forms of electrical stimulation can reverse some of the physiological consequences of denervation.

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Exploiting Technology for Intensive Neurological Rehabilitation - Guest Post

This is a guest post by Chris Wynne from our partners at The Rehab Physio in the Wirral. Their excellent facilities provide intensive physical rehabilitation services and in this post, Chris explains something of their philosophy.

Neurological physiotherapy acknowledges a simple fact: the human body is an amazing thing with the ability to adapt to the changes we put upon it.

With the right physiotherapy skills, technology and techniques, we can help the body to find ways to help patients with a range of neurological conditions including spinal cord injury, stroke, brain injury and Cerebral Palsy to restore function, independence and quality of life.

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Claire Lomas - Why I’m Committed to FES Cycling

FES Cycling with the RehaMove system is a foundation in Claire’s routine. In this short video she describes how she discovered FES Cycling, why she felt it was important to continue to exercise the parts that were paralysed as well as the parts that weren’t, and the benefits she has seen from doing so.

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