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Leading digital platform, the ‘Brain Recovery Zone’ for brain injury rehabilitation arrives at STEPS Rehabilitation

The ‘Brain Recovery Zone’ is an immersive virtual reality recovery platform, which offers a safe virtual space for people to practice the habits that aid recovery. Clients can choose from 15 different environments, ranging from the Northern Lights to the Hundred Acre Wood of Winnie the Pooh. STEPS is using this new VR platform to […]

23rd Nov

Mike's Story – Motorcycle accident, resulting in an upper limb amputation and brain injury.

Mike Howarth suffered a life changing upper limb amputation and brain injury when he was knocked from his motorbike on August 2nd 2019. He was an experienced motorcyclist and had ridden for over 30 years. Prior to his accident, Mike had built up a successful business and was working as a business improvement and strategy […]

17th Aug

Transition of Care Lead, Jennie Foster, talks about her role at STEPS Rehabilitation and how she helps to get people home

Getting clients home following a period of intensive rehabilitation is a priority for the team at STEPS Rehabilitation. Improving a person’s mental and physical condition to put them in a position to do this, brings focus and a purpose to the rehabilitation process. In this article, we speak with Jennie Foster, Transition of Care Lead […]

21st May

Julian’s Story – Road Traffic Accident resulting in a Brain Injury.

Julian suffered a life-changing brain injury when he was knocked over by a moped as he was crossing the road using a pedestrian crossing in May 2017. The accident resulted in him sustaining an open skull fracture, subarachnoid haemorrhage, and subdural hematoma. This case study, written in April 2021, provides an account of his rehabilitation […]

14th Apr

Kevin's Story – Car accident leading to severe brain injury.

Kevin Bateman was 34 years old when, in February 2018, a lorry crashed into his car on the A38 causing him to sustain a life-threatening brain injury. It was only the previous week that he and his girlfriend, Vicki, learnt they were expecting their first baby. At the time of the accident they had yet […]

4th Mar

APIL Brain Injury Group - 25th March 2020.

It is with regret that the APIL brain injury specialist interest group meeting has been cancelled. Due to current advice from Public Health England, we are currently closed to all visitors for the foreseeable future due to the COVID-19 crisis. The APIL Brain Injury group meeting will be re-arranged for later in the year and […]

7th Dec

Press Notice December 2016: Count down to STEPS doors opening (Video)

South Yorkshire is eight weeks away from having its very own NEUROLOGICAL AND COMPLEX TRAUMA REHABILITATION CENTRE right in the heart of Sheffield, delivering intensive therapy to people from the age of 18 who have survived a stroke or brain, spinal or complex trauma injuries. Over the last 10 months, STEPS Rehabilitation Ltd has been […]

26th Jul

Thanks to NCS, the roof is in sight

Back in February 2015, we put out a tender for the STEPS build. Amongst those invited were Northern Construction Solutions (NCS), recommended by our architects, Alston Murphy Associates. After a month of detailed and careful inspection of the field, we met Sean Anderson, the company’s Director, at a post tender meeting to explore a bit […]

13th May

STEPS hydrotherapy pool packed up and ready to go

The hydrotherapy pool is packed up and ready to make it's 700 mile journey from the south west coast of France where it was manufactured by Reval. It will be our supplier Innova’s first stainless steel pool to be installed in the UK and will come as a wide load, with a planned delivery for […]

23rd Nov

Press Notice : Neurological and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Centre gets green light

A team of three Sheffield based healthcare entrepreneurs, Ray Boulger, Jules Shiel-Boulger and Toria Chan, has secured planning go-ahead for the first stage of a new ‘healthcare hub’ to be built in the city. Over the next 10 months, STEPS Rehabilitation Ltd will build a state of the art neurological and orthopaedic rehabilitation centre on […]

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