No Brain, No Pain
The old-fashioned theory views pain as a direct result of tissue damage or injury. It assumes a linear relationship between the severity of the injury and the intensity of pain. Modern…
I’m glad this happened to me, not anyone else
By Grant Cowan It’s hard to believe everything can be totally different in a matter of seconds. I was a serving police officer when I had a stroke in March 2017,…
Forget names shortly after being introduced?
Hands up if you’ve ever forgotten someone’s name immediately after being introduced. Thought so. This is usually because you weren’t paying attention in the first place, which told the brain the name wasn’t important and could thus be discarded to make room for stuff that was important. So, a memory trace was never made in the first place.
Kris Goes to Wellington
On Tuesday, September 3rd, Kris received her medal as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit from Her Excellency The Rt. Hon. Dame Cindy Ciro. This is the…
Increasing the Exercise Options for Stroke
There are around 900 strokes a year in Canterbury. That’s 900 added to the 900 last year and the year before that. Start compounding that number and the scale of…
Roland Went to Russia (and China)
A former member of the New Zealand ski team, Roland Matthews had secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. This meant he could no longer take part in even simple family pleasures such…