Emma Cook

Talker more than a Tweeter but giving it a go.

[Emma Cook @SCIPhysioEm]

@HelenBevan Absolutely on the nail with each of these points. Now to how live them ....

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers.

After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.

[Emma Cook @SCIPhysioEm]

@MonkEmma Thank you for taking thectime to unpack this and present the information so clearly and accurately 🙏. Really helps when trying to calmly explain to certain friends and relatives that it is Rage bait

[Emma Cook @SCIPhysioEm]

@PeopleAlchemy That is a good question.... Some but definitely not all. When we have, they are often doing more than they had identified and some don't see the condition often enough, so might take longer to enact the changes.

[Emma Cook @SCIPhysioEm]

@Catlin_Tucker The fragmentation is similar in Healthcare, where I teach. This article is very helpful in unpacking deep and shallow learning tasks, offering questions to support personal and professional reflection and potentialuse of AI. Thank you 😊

[Emma Cook @SCIPhysioEm]

@suhailphysio89 @Retlouping Really interesting piece of research. Thanks for sharing. Is there a plan for implementation and/or working with @NHSGIRFT ?

[Ammar Suhail, PT @suhailphysio89]

Researchers from Queen's Medical Centre developed a success score, a validated clinical triage tool for CES.

https://t.co/v4USxz1Bvc

@Retlouping

[Spinal Injuries Association @spinalinjuries]

Bowel care is a fundamental area of patient care that is frequently overlooked, but very important for the quality of life of patients with spinal cord injury. Check out the updated publication from @theRCN here: https://t.co/vfQL0XUjLx

[Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) @thecsp]

More people are surviving strokes than ever before in the UK.

But their hopes of getting better are being dashed because of a lack of physiotherapists.

We highlight critical workforce shortages with @ACPIN_UK and @TheStrokeAssoc.

#RightToRehab
https://t.co/8AiVpLKbh7

[J Sports Sci Med @j_s_s_m]

Does static stretching 2 hours before a warm-up affect performance? This study explores how the timing of stretching influences subsequent athletic output https://t.co/NZTctB6CPV
#SportsScience #Stretching #WarmUp #Performance #JSSM

[Matt Forde @mattforde]

A couple of years ago my life was saved by a very special man.

His name is Hanny Anwar. He’s a surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He removed the cancer from the base of my spine. Along with a lot of bone.

But he did so much more than that.

Surgeons have a reputation for being cocky, arrogant and cursed with poor people skills. Hanny isn't like that. As well as being exceptionally gifted, he's also a very thoughtful and spiritual man.

Once he'd diagnosed my cancer as chordoma, he explained to me that it has a very high recurrence rate. On average, there's a 60% chance that chordomas return.

I was trying to get my head around this. That I was going to put myself through brutal surgery with a long recovery, losing bladder bowel and sexual function... to emerge with the odds against me.

Hanny said something to me that I'll never forget.

He reassured me that if the cancer did return that it could be treated with radiotherapy or further surgery. He told me that the hospital treats patients with recurrent cancer that live for decades.

'So if it comes back, it's not necessarily a death sentence?', I asked.

'No more than life is', he replied.

Wow. It was such a great answer, I burst out laughing.

In that moment I knew that I completely trusted him. I felt immensely privileged to be his patient.

Along with his colleague who also operated on me, John Afolayan, he is currently trekking ONE HUNDRED KILOMETRES across THE SAHARA DESERT. It will take them five days.

Yes, they're insane.

But they’re doing it to raise money for the @thernohcharity.

All the money raised goes back into NHS services at the hospital to help more patients in the future.

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is our only national orthopaedic hospital. It treats patients from all over the country, including injured service personnel and people like me who suffer from rare bone cancer.

Anything you can give will make a massive difference.

Surely they deserve it.

Thank you.

https://t.co/goSIYmXncI

[SCIRE Professional @SCIREProject]

Did you know that sleep-disordered breathing is much more common in people with #spinalcordinjury? On #worldsleepday, check in on your sleep quality/fatigue! There are a number of physical and respiratory therapies that are low-cost and can help, like 'breathstacking' or IMT 😊

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by US analytics software company Palantir.

A coalition of human rights, health and patient organisations, and unions sent out the plea to NHS trusts by email
https://t.co/nk89qLEiWp

[NASS @NASSspine]

NASS "Ask the Experts": Update on Spinal Cord Injury: What is New? What is Hot?
https://t.co/B5KFrjrs62

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Dear @ShabanaMahmood,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

[Emma Cook @SCIPhysioEm]

@davidrkadler Where is our collective moral compass? This whole catastrophe is down to a total failure of effective governments to effectively intervene. 😔

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Wasn’t Brexit supposed to fix Britain?

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...

[Sahat English 🇵🇸 @sahatenglish]

Ambulance sirens are sounding simultaneously across the #Gaza Strip in a coordinated distress signal, highlighting the escalating famine and the collapse of the healthcare system.

(Source: IG: mohammed_fayq)

The world is about to witness the mass death of thousands due to an Israeli-induced famine. This catastrophe could be stopped immediately by the @UNRWA. The Israeli occupation has turned food into a lethal weapon against indigenous Palestinians.

#GazaGenocide
#GazaFamine