15/09/2026
Update from Neurokinex 2026
After a big setback earlier this summer, when an accident in her wheelchair left her in hospital for 6 weeks, Elizabeth is finally back at Neurokinex Gatwick in the U.K. for her latest neurorehabilitation intensive, albeit a bit later than was originally intended.
As usual, Elizabeth is working really hard, and despite having some limitations with regards to the exercises that she is allowed to do following her recent injury, is making great progress.
Considering that just a few weeks ago, she couldn't even sit up, much less transfer into and out of her wheelchair, to see her standing upright in a standing frame or doing some body-weight supported standing is absolutely incredible.
She has been doing a lot of exercises to help strengthen her upper back which was damaged in the accident and has also been working on regaining her core strength which was weakened by the 6 weeks she spent on complete bed rest in the hospital.
Each day at Neurokinex, Elizabeth does a combination of Wide-pulse Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (WPS) and Activity Based Rehabilition (ABR). The WPS involves the placement of electrodes over target areas of her body through which an electrical stimulus is applied to help activate her spinal cord. By pairing this with a purposeful activity, such as various weight-bearing exercises, this helps to promote neuroplasticity, i.e., the brain's ability to adapt and change, with the aim of creating new connections within her central nervous system to bypass the areas of damage. The other therapy she does, ABR is a specialised therapy that uses high-intenstity, repetitive physical movements to activate the nervous system below the level of injury, helping to promote movement and recovery through meaningful activities. In Elizabeth's case this has involved a wide variety of different exercises and activities, such as, body-weight supported standing in the Kaiser machine, perch sitting in the standing frame, various exercises on the Total Gym (TG), upper body exercises on the Cybex machine and working on her core muscles with the BlazePods which are smart, light-based reaction training devices that are designed to improve agility, coordination and reaction time.
Outside of her daily neurorehabilitation, she has been taking it easy and making sure to get lots of rest in between sessions so as not to agrivate her injury. Already we are seeing great improvements in her range of movement and core strength since starting this intensive 2 weeks ago, and we are sure that with all her hard work and the expertise of the trainers at Neurokinex that this will only improve even more over the coming 2 weeks.
