Development of Therapy Link System

Covid-19来了，突然之间，你再也找不到你的理疗师、你的门诊医生、你的语言治疗师了。你模糊地记得他们在最后一次治疗中对你做了什么，那可能是几周前，甚至可能是六个月前。也许你有一些他们给你的讲义，旧书的复印件和传单。但是你不能再准确地记住你应该如何做这些练习，或者甚至它们是否仍然适合你当前的需要。你不知道为了取得进步，你每天到底应该做什么，因为你没有得到一个明确的计划来让你走上正轨。Therapy Link是一款应用程序，它允许治疗师与患者联系，评估需求并创建应用程序内的治疗方案，根据患者的个人需求定制和量身定制，从治疗师的办公桌发送到患者的设备上。它不仅会向病人展示他们的计划需要做什么，还会通过视频向他们展示如何做。然后，患者将有一个循序渐进、易于遵循的治疗方案，以指导他们在家。我自己四岁的女儿经常要求私人和公共部门的理疗师、理疗师和语言治疗师进行治疗。由于对这项服务的需求不断增长，她的NHS预约是零星的，通常每六个月左右限制在4周。大多数治疗师会承认，这不足以对孩子的发展产生影响。她的治疗师从来没有给过我们日常的治疗方案。相反，我们应该模仿我们在诊所里看到的治疗师的表现。我经常向信托的工作人员评论说，在如何在家进行治疗方面，护理人员、父母以及患者缺乏明确的指导。然而，什么都没有改变，因为没有适当的系统来改变它，使它更有效。从我自己的经验来看，我知道治疗链接将极大地改善像我女儿这样的孩子的结果，以及他们的家庭和整个社会。他们发展得越好，他们照顾自己的能力就越强，在他们以后的生活中，卫生服务和更广泛的国家通常必须为他们提供的服务就越少。

Covid-19 has arrived, and suddenly you can no longer access your physio, your OT, your speech therapist. You have a vague recollection of what they did with you in their last session, which was maybe a few weeks ago, maybe even six months ago. Perhaps you have a few handouts, photocopies of old books and leaflets that they gave you. But you can no longer remember exactly how you're supposed to do the exercises, or even if they are still appropriate for your current needs. You don't know what you really should be doing every day in order to make progress, because you weren't given a clear plan to keep you on track.Therapy Link is an app that will allow therapists to connect with a patient to assess need and create in-app therapy programmes, bespoke and tailored to a patient's individual needs, sent from the therapist's desk to the patient's device. It will show the patient not only _what_ they need to do via their plan, it will show them _how_ to do it via videos. The patient will then have a step-by-step, easy-to-follow therapy programme to guide them while they are at home.My own four-year-old daughter regularly requires therapy from physios, OTs and speech therapists in both the private and public sector. Due to the burgeoning demand on the service, her NHS appointments are sporadic, usually limited to 4-week blocks every six months or so. Most therapists will acknowledge that this is insufficient to make a difference to a child's development. We have never been given a day-to-day programme of therapy by any of her therapists. Instead, we are expected to imitate what we see the therapist perform in-clinic. I have often commented to Trust staff upon the lack of clear direction to care-givers and parents, as well as to patients, on how to perform the therapies at home. Yet, nothing has changed because there is no system in place to change it, to make it more efficient.From my own experience, I know that Therapy Link would hugely improve the outcomes for children like my daughter, as well as for their families and society at large. The better their development, the better their ability to care for themselves, and the less the health service and wider state generally must provide for them later in life.