When considering the application of paediatric therapeutic equipment, companies and clinicians will often discuss, or try to assess, it’s impact on the child’s ‘Quality of Life’ (QoL). But what does QoL mean to the child, their family and carers, and how can we assess or measure it? Written by Jenx Clinical Partnerships Manager – Kieran…
Guest blog from Kimberley Britton, Marketing Manager at Gympanzees. Physiotherapist Stephanie Wheen founded the charity Gympanzees five years ago when she realised the lack of play and exercise facilities for disabled children and young people. Since then, the charity has supported thousands of disabled children with some incredible results, such as a nine-year-old who held…
Written by Richard Harvey, Clinical Programmes Lead. Why we sleep? Sleep is an essential process for the human body to be able function both mentally and physically. According to a survey completed by the NHS ‘In 2022, 34.0% of children aged 7 to 16 years had a problem with sleep 3 or more times over…
As part of our guest blog series to share 40 stories for 40 years of Jenx, this video is from Disable The Label who are on a mission to empower, support and inform parents of disabled children as they navigate the stages of their child’s life. Here more from Ceri Winfield, CEO/Founder about how Disable…
To mark International Women’s Day, we spoke to our Head of HR, Karen Grace, about the support and opportunities we offer to the women in our team, and why Jenx is a great place to start your career. At Jenx equal opportunities are an essential part of everything we do, and deeply rooted in our…
Guest blog by Curtis Langley, Fundraising and Marketing Officer, The Movement Centre. At The Movement Centre we provide physiotherapy for children and specialise in Targeted Training, an evidence based, life changing therapy, for children who have Cerebral Palsy and other movement disabilities. Targeted Training has been developed to help children with movement disabilities gain control…
Written by Richard Harvey, Clinical Programmes Lead. Both adult and paediatric populations are affected negatively by loneliness and social isolation in terms of their physical and mental health. Compared to their classmates who are typically developing, children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) are more likely to be alienated and to feel lonely (Kwan et al., 2020).…
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, so there’s no better time to celebrate the fantastic apprentices we have worked with at Jenx. Jenx works with Ascend, an organisation run by Together for Sheffield which provides training and mentoring for young people and helps match them with local employers. They are initially offered work experience, with…
Guest blog by Julie Booth, Head of Fundraising and Communications at Paces. Here at Paces, we are a specialist school, adult centre and charity rolled into one! We support children and adults with motor disorders such as Cerebral Palsy, MS, Stroke, Parkinson’s and brain injury. Through a method of support called Conductive Education, we teach…
Written by Kieran Murphy, Clinical Partnerships Manager. Two thought-provoking scoping reviews have recently been published in the last couple of months that again highlight the difficulties of ‘gold standard’ research with complex and heterogenous populations and interventions [1,2]. A scoping review differs from a systematic review in that it seeks to present an overview of…
