The latest evidence and resources for allied health professionals and clinical support staff.
Evidence for Allied Health
Evidence for maternity care, nursing and allied health from Cochrane UK
Introducing three refreshed evidence series for health professionals and clinical support staff working in maternity care, nursing and allied health.
Idiopathic toe walking in children: what’s the evidence for interventions?
Siobhan McCormack blogs Cochrane evidence on treatments for idiopathic toe walking
Personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers: new Cochrane evidence
Sarah Chapman looks at new Cochrane evidence on personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect healthcare workers from infections such as COVID-19 (coronavirus)
Dysphagia: evidence on approaches to swallowing difficulties.
Sarah Chapman looks at Cochrane evidence on interventions for dysphagia in people with dementia and after stroke.
Occupational therapy: enabling living, not existing, after stroke
Rose Peel looks at the role of occupational therapists in supporting stroke survivors and the need for evidence to underpin therapy.
The surreal side of life after stroke
Stroke survivor Annette Dancer returns to the blog with this vignette about her #LifeAfterStroke for our special series.
Physical rehabilitation after stroke
Mark Smith, Consultant Physiotherapist in Stroke Rehabilitation, looks at Cochrane evidence on physical rehabilitation approaches for the recovery of function and mobility following stroke and the implications for service delivery
Cognitive rehabilitation after stroke – an urgent plea for good research
In a blog for our series #LifeAfterStroke, neuropsychologist Marta Bienkiewicz takes a look at the evidence on cognitive rehabilitation.
“I miss me…” Life after stroke.
In this blog, Caroline Carus reflects on some of the impacts of her stroke, one year on.
Stroke rehabilitation trials: let’s measure what matters
Julie Duncan Millar, PhD Student and Physiotherapist, discusses measuring what matters to stroke survivors and developing a new toolkit of outcome measures for use in stroke trials
Research is better together: a stroke survivor and a researcher tell us why
Annette Dancer and Claire Mitchell give us their perspectives on the benefits of working together in stroke research