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Wright Care Mobility Ltd
Your mobility and disability community Portal for Lancaster and Morecambe, and the surrounding area.
We not only offer Sales, service and repair of all your mobility items, but also a free community portal. You will find discussion forums and all the latest product news.
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Good News - The Return of 'Shopmobility'
Posted by steve on Saturday, July 17, 2010 (08:41:51) (22 reads)
Lancaster and Morecambe Shopmobility Service
will start again the week beginning
Tuesday 10th August 2010
You can hire scooters or wheelchairs by the hour or all day!
One Voice and its partners will be delivering the new service
within the local community at
Lancaster
Wednesdays and Fridays 9.30 – 4 at The Cornerstone in Dalton Square
Morecambe
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9.30 – 4 at The Cartmel Centre, Euston Road
Click here
For more information or to pre book your scooter or manual wheelchair
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New Wright Care Mobility Online Shop
Posted by steve on Saturday, June 12, 2010 (14:07:01) (8 reads)
Check Out Our New Online Shop!
You can now purchase a wide range of products online from our new store.
Great Saving on leading products
Plus Free Shipping
www.wrightcaremobility.com/store
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Disabled are socially excluded says Scope survey
Posted by paul on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 (07:39:31) (2 reads)
Nine out of 10 people in Britain have never had a disabled person in their house for a social occasion, claims a survey from a disability charity.
Scope says the survey shows that disabled people are socially excluded.
While the survey found widespread backing for equal opportunities, in practice few people have any personal dealings with people with disabilities.
The charity's chief executive, Richard Hawkes, says disabled people are "invisible in day-to-day life".
The Scope survey, based on a sample of more than 2,000 adults across Britain, suggests public support for the rights of disabled people to be part of mainstream society is not matched by everyday experience.
It suggests people with physical and mental disabilities remain excluded from many people's social or work life.
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A new treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferers?
Posted by Kirsty on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 (07:35:44) (2 reads)
A regular weight training regime may help treat rheumatoid arthritis, research suggests.
A study of 28 patients funded by Arthritis Research UK found those who pumped iron saw improvements in basic physical function, such as walking.
Researchers at Bangor and Gwynedd Hospital said such high intensity exercising could play a key role alongside drug treatment.
Experts said the exercise regime would not be appropriate for all patients.
RA is mainly a disease affecting the joints, but a less well known symptom is that it also severely reduces muscle mass and strength and this occurs even among patients whose disease is well managed.
Those with the condition are often given mild home exercises to do to stop their joints stiffening and becoming painful.
Weight training
To test how effective the weight training was the researchers split the 28 participants into two groups, the Arthritis Care and Research journal reported.
One did regular weight training for 24 weeks, while the others did the less strenuous standard home exercise regimes.
They found physical function improved by between 20% to 30% in the group doing weight training. Strength also increased by nearly 120%.
The high intensity training was found to increase the levels of an insulin-like growth factor (1GF-1) and insulin-like growth binding protein 3 - both of which promote the growth of muscles, bone and cartilage.
Study leader Dr Andrew Lemmey said muscle loss was a major contribution to the disability associated with the condition.
"Lifting, carrying, walking, climbing stairs are impaired.
"It is logical that if you can restore muscle, that strength and consequently functional capacity will also be restored. And this is what we have found."
He said the patients, who were mainly women in their 50s and had the disease for up to a decade, had responded well.
"In fact, the improvements in function were so significant that following training these patients with established RA were performing as well as or better than healthy individuals of the same age and sex."
He said he would like to see this sort of high intensity treatment funded along with drug therapies, but said that a multi-centre trial would be needed before this could be agreed and that they had received no funding for this.
Benefits were thought to be lost four to eight months after training ended.
A spokesman for Arthritis Research UK said: "Weight-training, especially at this level, is not for everyone with rheumatoid arthritis, but for those who are very well-motivated and physically able, we have proved that it can dramatically improve muscle strength and tone."
A spokesman for the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society agreed, but urged caution.
"Of course RA can affect different people in very different ways so pumping iron may not be appropriate for everyone. People should discuss this with their physio."
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New Throat Surgery Success
Posted by Kirsty on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 (07:35:35) (2 reads)
New throat surgery 'a success'
Ciaran Finn-Lynch and his mother Colleen Ciaran Finn-Lynch and his mother Colleen
Pioneering surgery to rebuild an 11-year-old boy's windpipe using his own stem cells has been hailed a success as he prepares to leave hospital.
Ciaran Finn-Lynch became the first child in the world to undergo the pioneering trachea transplant in March.
Ciaran, who is originally from Castleblayney, County Monaghan, is now due to return to his home in London.
Ciaran was born with Long Segment Tracheal Stenosis, which leaves sufferers with a very narrow windpipe.
Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London took stem cells from his bone marrow and injected them into a donor windpipe.
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"If Ciaran had one more bleed I don't think he would have made it.”
Quote by Colleen Finn-Lynch
They implanted the organ and allowed the stem cells to transform themselves in his own body.
By using his cells, doctors hoped to avoid the potential problem of Ciaran's immune system rejecting the organ.
Great Ormond Street revealed on Thursday that the transplant, carried out four weeks ago was considered a success after doctors proved the blood supply had returned to the trachea.
Ciaran's parents, Colleen and Paul, now hope to take him home for the first time since November.
They said the last few months had been a "rollercoaster" and paid tribute to the surgeons who saved their son.
Operation
He underwent major surgery to reconstruct his airways but, at the age of two-and-a-half, a metal stent used to hold his airway open eroded into his aorta, a major artery.
Professor Martin Birchall: "It could replace transplantation"
He went through more surgery, including two attempts to rebuild his airway, and finally left hospital after eight months.
Ciaran lived a full and active life until November last year when a stent again started to erode, causing a "massive bleed".
As options for Ciaran ran out, his specialists turned to stem cell treatment.
The surgery had been tried in Spain in 2008 on mother-of-two Claudia Castillo - the first person to receive a transplant organ created from stem cells - but Ciaran was to be the first child.
Ciaran was operated on in March, just four weeks after a donor trachea was found in Italy, and now doctors have confirmed his new windpipe is working well.
"We didn't have much choice when it came to the operation," his mother Colleen said.
"If Ciaran had one more bleed I don't think he would have made it."
She said they had "100% faith" in the transplant team, led by Great Ormond Street's Professor Martin Elliott.
She said Ciaran's recovery had been "up and down" but he kept his spirits up.
"Because it's so new, nobody knows what's ahead, or how long his full recovery is going to be, but we are on the right road now," she said.
Ciaran, who turned 11 last month, is looking forward to going home and is likely to return to school in September.
A keen drummer, he is most excited about being able to play in his band again, and even started practising with a lesson in the hospital's intensive care unit recently.
Prof Elliott said the transplant team was "delighted" Ciaran could go home.
"He is a wonderful boy who has become a great friend to us all, and he and his infinitely patient family have charmed us all," he said.
"His recovery has been complicated, as one might expect for a new procedure, and we have kept him under close surveillance, hence the length of time he has been here.
"It is wonderful to see him active, smiling and breathing normally. We are very proud of him."
He said Ciaran would need regular follow-ups to check on his progress and to learn what to expect for the next patient who may need the innovative therapy.
"The treatment offers hope to many whose major airways were previously considered untreatable or irreplaceable," Prof Elliott added.
Taken from BBC.co.uk
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Job cash for Autism sufferers in scotland
Posted by Kirsty on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 (07:35:24) (2 reads)
Jobs cash for people with autism in Scotland
Computer keyboard and mouse Specialisterne aims to employ 61 people - 50 of whom have autism
A project in Scotland to create up to 50 IT jobs for people with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) has been awarded £700,000 in grant and loans.
The Scottish government cash will help the Specialisterne project, set up by Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEiS), to recruit and train staff.
The Glasgow project is based on a Danish model which employs people with ASD as software testers.
Only 13% of adults with ASD in Scotland are thought to be in full-time work.
Specialisterne Scotland, which was set up with the help of The National Autistic Society Scotland and the Autism Resource Centre, will spend the next six months recruiting the first 12 potential trainees.
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“By 2015 we expect to employ a total of 61 people, 50 of whom will have autism and have a projected turnover of £1.6m”
Quote by Gerry Higgins Community Enterprise in Scotland
They will undergo a four-month training programme using Lego Mindstorm sets and robotics to identify and match their skills to work tasks.
To ensure the trainees achieve their full potential, Specialisterne aims to create a highly-planned and predictable working environment to minimise stress.
CEiS chief executive Gerry Higgins said: "We know from the experience in Denmark that Specialisterne Scotland has the potential to change lives for the better by providing mainstream employment at the market rate for people with autism, while transforming recruitment attitudes and business practices.
"The company will commence commercial testing in early 2011 following recruitment and training of the workforce
As a social enterprise, Specialisterne Scotland will re-invest any profit to help create jobs for people with ASD.
'Important milestone'
Scotland was the first country to be chosen to develop the model outside of Denmark.
Thorkil Sonne, founder of Specialisterne and Specialist People Foundation, said: "With the opening of Specialisterne Scotland we have set a very important milestone in making society welcome people with autism spectrum disorder as valuable and worthy citizens.
"The opening of Specialisterne Scotland sets the scene for the first international Specialisterne operation with potential to become a showcase not just for Scotland and the UK - but for the whole world in our ambition to enable one million jobs for specialist people globally."
In addition to the Scottish government funding, the project has also received £407,036 from the Big Lottery Fund and £30,000 from Glasgow City Council.
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New Tests For Autism
Posted by Kirsty on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 (07:35:13) (2 reads)
A brain scan that detects autism in adults could mean much more straightforward diagnosis of the condition, scientists say.
Experts at King's College London said the scan - tested on 40 people - identified tiny but crucial signs of autism, only detectable by computer.
Current methods of diagnosis can be lengthy and expensive.
But some experts say further research will be needed before the new technique can be widely used.
Autism Spectrum Disorder affects an estimated 1 in every 100 adults in the UK, most of them men. It varies from mild to very severe, and people with the condition can find the world appears chaotic and hard to understand.
Conventional diagnosis involves a team of experts who analyse behaviour and make a complex series of assessments.
The Medical Research Council study looked at 20 non-autistic adults and 20 adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
They were initially diagnosed using traditional methods, and then given a 15 minute brain MRI scan. The images were reconstructed into 3D and were fed into a computer, which looked for tiny but significant differences.
“It could help to alleviate the need for the emotional, time consuming and expensive diagnostic process which ASD patients and families currently have to endure” Quote by Dr Christine Ecker Lead researcher
The researchers detected autism with over 90% accuracy, the Journal of Neuroscience reports.
"What the computer can do very quickly is to see that a patient has autism," said Professor Declan Murphy from the Institute of Psychiatry, who supervised the research, "even though their brain, to the naked eye, looks very normal."
Dr Christine Ecker, who led the study, said she hoped the findings might result in a widely available scan to test for autism.
"It could help to alleviate the need for the emotional, time consuming and expensive diagnostic process which ASD patients and families currently have to endure," she said.
Once a patient has a diagnosis, he or she is able to access help and support with managing the condition.
Visible confirmation
Joe Powell was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, 14 years ago. Before his diagnosis, he didn't speak at all.
Since then, he says he's made big progress in managing his condition.
His brain scan confirms his ASD. He says seeing his diagnosis charted in black and white made a big difference to him.
"You need to physically see it," he says.
"I know the autism is still there. The progress I've made in managing my condition is real, but it's still there."
The research team is now looking at whether the test would be effective on children.
The findings have been welcomed by the National Autistic Society, who say they add to the understanding of the condition. They say adults can find it very difficult to get a diagnosis of autism, and this may help.
However, they say without more awareness among doctors, it may be of limited use.
"There's still a woeful lack of awareness in GPs' knowledge of autism," said NAS centre director, Carol Povey.
"People with autism are often dismissed when they go to their GPs for help, so we have to make sure front-line professionals have awareness of autism so they can make appropriate referrals."
Professor Uta Frith from UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, said much more work would be needed before the scans could be used for diagnosis. "This study shows that the subtle brain abnormalities associated with autism show a distinctive pattern," she said. "It is crucial that we learn more about what the brain abnormalities mean."
Taken from www.bbc.co.uk
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Snorkels at the ready for Carnforth Swimming Pool reopening
Posted by paul on Thursday, August 12, 2010 (16:17:08) (13 reads)
Improvements to the disabled facilities at Carnforth Swimming Pool are on schedule to be completed on time ready for the reopening on Monday 23rd August.
Members of staff from Carnforth Swimming Pool will be at the Tesco supermarket in Carnforth on Wednesday 18th August from 10.00 to 4.00pm to launch their new programme of activities, which include a children’s ‘Learn to swim’ session that will take place every day from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th August.
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