Disability and rehabilitation

University of Queensland researchers are looking at how pain can be influenced by how we think and feel, to improve treatment for chronic pain sufferers.

Practitioners and caregivers for aged care residents living with dementia and hearing loss will soon be able to draw on a free resource, developed by University of Queensland researchers.

A Queensland hospital has become the first to trial how increased activity in an acute stroke unit impacts on patients.

Exercise is an important part of recovery for people with brain injury, University of Queensland researchers have found.

Eating food from only the right side of the plate, shaving or applying make-up to only one side of the face, and running into objects on the left are common traits post stroke and for some survivors current therapies aren’t working.

A specialist rehabilitation and surgery centre has taken a major step forward with the formal signing of a 20-year partnership between Metro North Hospital and Health Service and The University of Queensland.

An anonymous donation of $500,000 will fund Australia’s first dedicated aphasia rehabilitation and research centre.

An online therapy program which delivers targeted treatment to people suffering from a non-progressive speech disorder (dysarthria) after brain injury is the focus of a new University of Queensland (UQ) study.