MOTIONrehab Clinical Director interviewed by Pulse Radio at the launch of MOTIONrehab’s Intensive Neurological Rehabilitation Centre and featured on Radio Pulse 1,  Pulse 2 and Pulse 80’s

West Yorkshire Rehab Centre is UK’s First 

A neuro rehabilitation centre, set to take high intensity brain injury and illness rehabilitation to a new level, has opened its doors in West Yorkshire this week. 

The brand new MOTIONrehab centre in Morley is the first of its kind in the country. It provides specialist neuro rehabilitation augmented by state of the art robotics and virtual reality technology.

It is the only centre in the UK providing high intensity rehabilitation for people recovering from brain injuries such as a stroke and head injury, spinal cord injury and other neurological conditions. 

Clinical director Sarah Daniel said:

“Rehabilitation is based around the ‘practice makes perfect’ adage: the more you do, the better you get,” she says. “But this isn’t translating into current delivery models. Most rehabilitation programmes are delivered in short bursts, which simply isn’t enough time to complete the level of repetition needed to deliver the information the brain needs to ‘relearn’ movement. 

“We know that neuroplasticity – the ability for your brain to essentially ‘rewire’ in response to learning – exists, and we’ve seen rehabilitation results improve significantly when exercises are repeated more frequently over longer periods of time: ideally several hours a day. 

“Many people simply aren’t aware of how much progress it is possible to make with this ‘high repetition’ approach. We want to change that. We want to help more people access these benefits and get their lives back more quickly. 

“We’re combining the skills and experience of our team with the very latest VR and robotic-assisted equipment to provide bespoke, high intensity rehabilitation programmes that will give the brain a better chance of re-learning following neurological illness or injury. We are the first facility in the country to be able to do this, and we’re very excited at the potential it offers for recovery.”