Category: Advice & Tips
Recovering from a hip fracture
Hip fractures can be particularly tricky to recover from depending on the severity of the break, your age, and other factors. Recovering from a...
How do you know if you have fractured your hip?
It’s a dreaded question – how do you know if you’ve broken a bone? Or in this case, how do you know if you...
Different Types of Hip Fractures & How to Treat Them
A hip fracture is a partial or complete break in the upper section of the femur, which forms the hip joint. Elderly people are...
The most common causes of hip fractures
Hip fractures are one of the most common reasons that people require orthopaedic treatment in hospitals in the UK. In fact, over 70,000 hip...
Comfy Seating for Spinal Cord Injuries
Prescribing specialist seating for clients with spinal cord injuries can be incredibly difficult. The phrase ‘spinal cord injury’ is an umbrella term that covers...
How to prevent hip fractures in older people
Every year in the UK, a third of people aged 65 or over in the UK suffer a fall; that roughly equates to six...
Tips for returning to work after Long COVID
Although research on Long COVID is still relatively young, we know that it’s a real challenge to recover from and varies a lot from...
What is the best specialist seating for managing fatigue?
Fatigue is often referred to by two different names – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Myalgic Encephalopathy (ME). Over a quarter of a million...
Living with Long COVID: Symptoms, Support & Recovery
By now, we’re all sadly well aware of the problems that COVID-19 can cause. Across the world, we’ve seen the devastating impact on individual...
How much does a care chair cost?
Care chairs are highly specialised chairs. They are designed to support complex postural requirements, provide pressure care, and so much more. Most people who...