LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!!!!!!
Zoom based ARNI Instructor training course; starts on September 20, 2025
ARNI runs the ONLY FUNCTIONAL REHABILITATION & EXERCISE TRAINING QUALIFICATION CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN THE UK which teaches experienced therapists and exercise instructors how to continue the rehabilitation path of stroke and other acquired brain injury survivor.
You will learn how to teach things that stroke survivors really want, and will ask you for help with. With this CPD you will be ready to meet the full needs of a referred client.
Functional rehabilitation & exercise training after stroke taught by ARNI is characterised by: essential upper and lower limb task practice in order to recover action control, innovative physical coping strategies in order to perform ADLs independently… and appropriate stroke-specific cardiovascular and resistance training.
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Here’s why engaging an ARNI instructor is a vital step in the stroke recovery journey:
🧠 Leveraging Neuroplasticity: ARNI focuses on functional, task-related practice to retrain the brain and body. By engaging survivors in repetitive, meaningful activities, instructors help tap into the brain's neuroplasticity—its ability to reorganise itself to recover lost skills.
💪 Building Functional Independence: ARNI goes beyond passive treatment by teaching practical coping strategies for managing daily life. This includes crucial, real-world tasks like safely getting up from the floor, which builds confidence and functional independence.
🚀 Providing Continued, Personalised Support: Unlike standard rehabilitation which can cease once a patient can mobilise, ARNI trainers provide personalised, one-on-one sessions that are constantly adapted and intensified based on the survivor's progress. This bridges the gap in care and combats the risk of a plateau or regression in recovery.
📈 Evidence-Based and Innovative: The ARNI approach incorporates stroke-specific strength and resistance training, which recent research has confirmed improves recovery outcomes. The model challenges the traditional paradigm that recovery plateaus shortly after hospital discharge, offering a framework for enhancing patient outcomes and promoting self-reliance.
✨ Holistic Empowerment: By continuing recovery in a familiar home environment, ARNI also helps reduce stress and anxiety. This empowers survivors to take an active and confident role in their own long-term journey toward regaining strength, balance, and independence.
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Meet the VTS Glove. This wireless, glove-like device uses high-frequency vibrations to provide targeted therapeutic tactile stimulation to the hand and fingers.
While the current research is very promising, more studies are planned to further explore the long-term effectiveness and optimal design of the device.
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We have trainers roughout the UK and Southern Ireland ready and waiting to train with you to assist with functional limitations.
These instructors have all been through the ARNI Functional Rehabilitation & Exercise Training after Stroke Qualification.
Please get in touch to find out how we can best help you with your recovery.
Call 0203 053 0111 or email support@arni.uk.com
Phone lines: 9.00am to 5.00pm. Monday-Friday
THERE IS A KNOWLEDGEABLE ARNI RECEPTIONIST TO TAKE YOUR CALL.
IMPORTANT: OUR LINE DOES GET BUSY, SO IF YOU DON’T GET THROUGH FIRST TIME, PLEASE LEAVE A VERY QUICK MESSAGE ON THE ANSWERPHONE AND SOMEONE WILL RING YOU BACK IMMEDIATELY.
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Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil has revealed he suffered a stroke at home last Christmas and that doctors doubted he would be able to take to the stage ever again.
He says: "It's been tough, but I'm back, I'm 90, 95% to where I was before, and it's going to be great."
Well done Vince!
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For many stroke survivors, regaining hand and arm function after experiencing post-stroke spasticity can be an incredibly difficult and frustrating journey. Traditional treatments like Botox injections or oral medications can offer temporary relief, but often come with side effects and inconvenience. But what if a new, non-invasive wearable technology could offer relief and promote lasting recovery? Meet the VTS Glove.
This wireless, glove-like device uses high-frequency vibrations to provide targeted therapeutic tactile stimulation to the hand and fingers. It is designed for daily, at-home use, allowing survivors to incorporate rehabilitation into their daily lives for approximately three hours a day. It's been proven in trials to lead to significant reductions in spasticity and hypertonia in the hands of chronic stroke survivors and has been shown to allow survivors to regain greater control and use of their affected hand.
A patient at the University of Southampton, who was unable to move his hand for eight years after his stroke, was able to move it again with the help of a similar device, calling the experience ‘breathtaking.’
Since it can be used at home, the glove offers a more accessible and less disruptive therapy option compared to frequent clinic visits for injections or other treatments. Some participants in clinical trials reported voluntarily reducing or stopping their oral muscle relaxants or Botox injections, relying instead on the VTS Glove for symptom relief.
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Reaching for a high-intensity, high-repetition recovery from your stroke? 🧠💪 Bring on the Novint Falcon haptic device.
Post-stroke recovery hinges on neuroplasticity; the brain's ability to reorganise itself to compensate for injury. Intensive, repetitive, and task-specific training is key to driving this process. The Novint Falcon, a cost-effective, commercially available haptic device, leverages virtual reality (VR) to provide a potent platform for this type of rehabilitation. By simulating a sense of touch, weight, and friction, it creates a more immersive and effective therapeutic environment.
In the picture of the Novint Falcon haptic device, it can be seen mounted with one of the first 3D Touch devices with haptic feedback for computer games. The idea is that you would physically FEEL objects and events in games.
Studies have shown that haptic-enhanced VR training can significantly improve fine motor functions, hand grasping abilities, and coordination in stroke survivors, even those in the chronic stage. The device's ability to simulate tasks like handwriting and object manipulation provides a realistic, low-cost training tool.
By integrating gamified tasks, the Novint Falcon increases patient motivation and engagement. The engaging nature of the exercises promotes higher repetition and longer training sessions, which are crucial for optimal recovery. Its relatively low cost makes it a strong candidate for at-home rehabilitation. Combining it with a smartphone and a custom application allows for frequent, unsupervised practice, extending the reach of therapy beyond the clinic! 🚀
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How has hard work and high-intensity therapy made a difference in your recovery journey? 👇
Supporters of ARNI Stroke Rehab board on Facebook know all too well that strokes are life-altering, but recovery must a journey paved with hard work and determination! 🧠💪 The latest evidence in neurorehabilitation shows that passive therapy isn't enough. The real magic happens with high-intensity, high-repetition training ✨ Active participation is key because you have to actively engage your brain's learning networks for the best results. The more you do, the stronger those neural connections become.
Challenge yourself! Higher intensity exercises push your brain to rewire and recover faster. This isn't just about movement; it's about neuroplasticity! 💥 Your brain is amazing at rewiring itself, and intense, repetitive training gives it the boost it needs. So, let's celebrate every rep, every challenging session, and every small vi#arni!#ARNIstrokerehabo#strokerecoveryr#strokesurvivore#neurorehabt#strokerehabilitationha#EvidenceBasedMedicinen #EvidenceBasedMedicine
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We know that plasticity can make crucial adjustments to the way information flows round your brain, creating new connections between neurons. Plasticity can be harnessed to work for you, or allowed ultimately to work against you as your brain recovers and adapts to the situation. You have the capability, right here, right now to work with your incredible, constantly changing brain. Understanding that you are directly affecting your own neural rewiring by the things you do will change your perspective on every exercise that you instigate from now on.
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We all know that if we can’t walk around properly, it significantly impacts on our independence. Recent research highlights the effectiveness and safety of the ReWalk ReStore™ soft robotic exosuit for improving walking ability in stroke survivors. This innovative device is revolutionising gait training by providing targeted, active assistance to the affected ankle, helping to overcome common mobility challenges.
It consists of an actuator assembly, calf wrap assembly, and shoe insole. A power supply is integrated into the actuator assembly. Bowden cables span these components to transmit assistive forces generated by the actuator to the ankle. One of the cables is located anterior to the ankle and the other is located posterior to the ankle. When the anterior cable is retracted, an ankle dorsiflexion torque is produced. When the posterior cable is retracted, an ankle plantarflexion torque is produced.
The ReStore is uniquely designed to assist both the dorsiflexion (lifting the foot) and plantarflexion (pushing off) actions of the ankle, which are crucial for ground clearance and propulsion during walking. By synchronising its assistance with the patient's own movement, it helps retrain proper gait mechanics.
A multi-site clinical trial found that after just five days of training with the ReStore, participants saw clinically meaningful increases in both their device-assisted and unassisted walking speeds. Some patients achieved even larger gains in a short period. The trial also confirmed the exosuit's safety and reliability when used under the supervision of a physical therapist. No device-related falls or serious adverse events were reported, and users reported high satisfaction with the device.
The ReStore's active assistive approach can probably offer a more advanced solution compared to passive devices like AFOs. It helps retrain and re-engage muscles, rather than simply bracing the ankle.
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Neuromodulatory non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques are experimental therapies for improving motor function after stroke. The aim of neuromodulation is to enhance adaptive or suppress maladaptive processes of post-stroke reorganisation. However, results on the effectiveness of these methods, which include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) are mixed. It’s posited that recent developments in NIBS technology will likely contribute to individualised therapy. Moving beyond single-area stimulation, targeting specific muscle groups that play different roles in post-stroke motor recovery (for example, finger flexors vs. extensors) may well be possible using multi-locus TMS. NIBS in stroke faces a challenge reminiscent of the development of other stroke therapies, such as thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy, where early studies were largely mixed before patient selection and individualising protocols were refined to determine its therapeutic potential.
During sessions, you will watch a nature documentary while having very weak brain stimulation. Brain stimulation feels like a warm, tingling sensation on your head.
Ms. Jenny Lee
11 Comments
I would be very grateful if I could be included in your study. I had a stroke in 2014 which left me with left-sided stiffness, dropped left foot which affects my walking ability and a non-functional left arm and closed fisted left hand
Hi I’m 36 and have had a massive stroke but can walk but not much upper limb movement and I would like to be considered for this trial
Sorry about all the grammar and spelling errors.looking forward to hearing from you.
Hi Roger
I apologise for the delay replying. The ReCAPS Study was on hold during lockdown, but is now up and running again.
If you are still interested in taking part, please send us your contact details.
We can be contacted via by email (carys.evans@ucl.ac.uk), by phone 0203 4488 774 or through our website.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Carys
I I would be more than intsrested to take part.I look forward to take part looking forward to your response,regards,Roger Humphreys.
following a massive stroke in 2015
I have significant paralysis of upper left arm, unfortunately I developed epilepsy afterwards, now fully controlled by medication, but would be interested to help with your study, if appropriate.
Regards
Andrew
Hi Andrew
Thank you for your message, and sorry for the delay. The ReCAPS Study was on hold during lockdown, but is now up and running again.
If you are still interested in taking part, please send us your contact details and we would be happy to discuss further.
We can be contacted via by email (carys.evans@ucl.ac.uk), by phone 0203 4488 774 or through our website.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Carys
Massive stroke October 2018 age 46, left side paralysis, I can walk, do have some arm movement back but not all, I would definitely be interested if possible?
Hi Michelle
Sorry for the late reply. The ReCAPS Study was on hold during lockdown, but is now up and running again.
If you are still interested in taking part, please send us your contact details and we would be happy to discuss further.
We can be contacted via by email (carys.evans@ucl.ac.uk), by phone 0203 4488 774 or through our website.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Carys
I completed upper -limb Programme
In 2019 ,found it really helped also took part in
(Ang s) research )
If you feel this would be beneficial to me
Please keep me posted
I at present still under
Queens Square
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(F E S) for lower limb
Thank you
Astonight Trundle
Hi Aston
Thank you for your message. I apologise for the delay replying. The ReCAPS Study was on hold during lockdown, but is now up and running again.
If you are still interested in taking part, please let us know.
We can be contacted via by email (carys.evans@ucl.ac.uk), by phone 0203 4488 774 or through our website.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Carys