Palliative Care
Palliative care is an interdisciplinary medical care-giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses.
Traumatic Brain Injury
A traumatic brain injury, also known as an intracranial injury, is an injury to the brain caused by an external force. TBI can be classified based on severity ranging from mild traumatic brain injury to severe traumatic brain injury.
Gastrostomy Care
Care of the stoma site, administering medication, water, and food via PEG tube using both gravity and pumps.
Spinal Cord Injury
A spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes temporary or permanent changes in its function. It is a destructive neurological and pathological state that causes major motor, sensory and autonomic dysfunctions.
Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary among people and over time, but include poor coordination, stiff muscles, weak muscles, and tremors. There may be problems with sensation, vision, hearing, and speech.
Mental Disorder
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioural or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
Neurological Disorders
Neurological disorders represent a complex array of medical conditions that fundamentally disrupt the functioning of the nervous system. These disorders affect the brain, spinal cord, and nerve networks, presenting unique diagnosis, treatment, and patient care challenges.
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease, or simply Parkinson's, is a neurodegenerative disease primarily of the central nervous system, affecting both motor and non-motor systems. The motor symptoms are collectively called parkinsonism and include tremors, bradykinesia, rigidity, and postural instability.
Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent, unprovoked seizures. A seizure is a sudden burst of abnormal electrical activity in the brain that can cause a variety of symptoms, ranging from brief lapses of awareness or muscle jerks to prolonged convulsions.
Motor Neurone Disease
Motor neurone diseases are a group of rare neurodegenerative disorders that selectively affect motor neurons, the cells which control voluntary muscles of the body.
Learning Disability
Learning disability, learning disorder, or learning difficulty is a condition in the brain that causes difficulties comprehending or processing information and can be caused by several different factors.
Tracheotomy
Tracheotomy, or tracheostomy, is a surgical airway management procedure which consists of making an incision on the front of the neck to open a direct airway to the trachea.
Stroke
Stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke — ischemic (due to lack of blood flow) and hemorrhagic (due to bleeding). Both cause parts of the brain to stop functioning properly.