@xr4rehab.bsky.social Nice paper providing further evidence for VR4REHAB

Delighted to welcome all our new physiotherapy students to @UCC. Particular welcome to our international students! We are definitely outgrowing ourselves!

This was an excellent review. The energy and rigour of the 'developing and emerging' researchers was awesome!! A scoping review of frameworks evaluating digital health applications - Orla Deegan, et al [there was a gang of us!] #INTERREG_NWE journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Students "Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do." Mark Twain #justsaying

Just cycled 250km along Danube, Budapest to Bratislava route. I am officially shattered 😲

Time to dig out that protocol about leeches and their efficacy in cardiac disease!!

📢 DEADLINE APPROACHING to apply for the Catch a Rising Star programme! 🌟 Open to XR4REHAB members (18+) working in XR for rehab - clinicians, researchers, devs & more. Join 10 months of mentoring & growth! Apply by May 15 🕑 📩 vr4rehab.org/catch-a-risi... #XR4REHAB #XR #Rehabilitation #Mentorship

Bit later to #HSCPday2025, See some of the great work at the School of Clinical Therapies @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social issuu.com/discoverucc/...

Great day @ University Hospital Waterford. Introducing Physiotherapy Staff to #VR and building capacity with @xr4rehab.bsky.social #Scaleup4rehab #InterregNWE

Fantastic 2-day meeting with the #scaleup4rehab project #InterregNWE Exciting innovations in #digitalrehab #VR @xr4rehab.bsky.social

🚨 Less than 100 days to go! 99 days till the conference and 7 more days to take advantage of the early bird registration fee! 🎟️ ℹ️ View the incredible line-up of speakers, information about hospital visits, registration and other practical information here: vr4rehab.org/congress/

📢 It is with great enthusiasm we present our opening keynote speaker for the XR4REHAB Congress! Skip Rizzo is an expert in the use of virtual reality technology in mental health applications and cognition and memory loss in older adults. He will take us on a look into the future of clinical VR.

Congrats to Dr Marie Kelly on her fantastic PhD defence yesterday @uccresearch.bsky.social Thank you Examiners Prof Cindy Veenhof & Dr Sheena McHugh & Chair Dr Patrick Cotter. Co-supervisors Dr Brona Fullen UCD, Prof Denis Martin Teesside Uni, Prof. Colin Bradley @ucc.ie

Some helpful Pubmed alternatives & workarounds - just in case the idiocracy causes problems. Many thanks to Hilda Bastian a former leader at NLM.

Dr Bridget Kiely sharing her experience of Deep End Ireland #SocialPrescribing @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Excellent presentation from Declan OSullivan based on his qualitative study with stakeholders and #socialprescribing @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social

Dr Sheena McHugh addresses the major challenges around implementation of change. @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie #socialprescribing

Delighted to kick off our Symposium on Social Prescribing with Prof Ravindran @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social

What is important when you choose a journal to publish in, we asked this morning in a @ucclibrary.bsky.social workshop. Turns out graduate students really value the guidance of their supervisors.

Children in UK suffering ‘irreversible harm’ due to physiotherapy delays - The Guardian highlights the stark reality for children and their families who are facing unacceptable long waiting lists for treatment. #RightToRehab

Given it's the centenary of the shipping forecast. Academic Insomnia for those that know 😀 @bbcradio4.bsky.social

My colleagues and friends in the library @ucclibrary.bsky.social are killing it with these Research Essentials Workshops. libguides.ucc.ie/ResearchEsse...

The Lagan river is looking good this evening.

DW A trial of a Healthy Lifestyle Programme in 346 people with back pain and 1+ of overweight, low exercise, smoking, or poor diet found reduced disability. Likely to be long-term and benefit general health. doi.org/10.1001/jama...

Happy Friday everyone 😀

DW. Emails and other online media promote predatory journals (I receive 4+ emails/day requesting submissions). An editorial discusses the harms arising and how we should respond to the disease. Senior researchers and academic organisations should lead. doi.org/10.1001/jama...

'Rehab is key not just to good recovery but to prevention of future demand on the NHS.' 👏 Health Secretary Wes Streeting highlighted the importance of rehabilitation in making the NHS work, following the launch of healthcare reforms and a social care commission in England this week.

Free med stats training in Brookfield cafe until 10:20.

Yes the Pain Toolkit also launched a Self Management Toolkit website: Self-management tools for people living with long term health conditions. selfmgt.paintoolkit.org #SelfmgtLIVING-Works

If you are curious about #QualitativeResearchMethods we're running our 8 week evening class, from 22/1/25... Pull up a comfy chair and join us as we read the Pope and Mays textbook and chat to expert researchers (& chapter authors). @oxprimarycare.bsky.social www.phc.ox.ac.uk/study/short-...

Tomorrow better not be another no-bike-Christmas

Given the season.... Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelf. Happy holidays to all 🎅 🧑‍🎄 🤶

The elusive Language of Pain..... throbbing, shooting, Pricking, boring, drilling, stabbing, lancinating Great article....

There’s still six weeks to apply for a bursary to attend #WorldPhysio2025 Find out more and apply: wp2025.world.physio/bursary-prog... Deadline to apply: 30 Jan 2025