Current Studies at Chailey Clinical Services

Breathe-Easy: acceptability and feasibility of a new postural management night-time intervention to improve respiratory health of children with complex neurodisability

The Breathe-Easy research study will provide us with important information about the experiences of children with complex neurodisability and their families when they use a new postural management night-time intervention. The study is being carried out by a research team from Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust, with funding from the British Academy of Childhood Disability and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

For more information visit our Breathe-Easy research study page.

MOTION (Mechanised Orthosis for children with neurological disorders)

The MOTION study addresses two challenges:
(i) to advance development validation and adoption of bionic rehabilitation technology for children with neurological disorders to improve quality of life.
(ii) to set up a transregional network to transfer this rehabilitation technology and related knowledge from research to practical application by linking with industry, healthcare professionals and users and to interact with policy makers for the creation of supportive frameworks. If upcoming medical trials prove that rehabilitation with exoskeleton suits leads to a lower total medical costs insurance companies will cover part of the bill and offer the possibility that hundreds of rehabilitation centres open or upgrade their current equipment to include exoskeleton devices which would result in the sale of thousands of units.

Chailey Clinical Services will provide clinical expertise to the UK partners with development and testing of the equipment.

For more information visit the MOTION project website