Rehabilitation team disbands
TRUST helps its patients for final time
THE Toowoomba Rehabilitation Unit Support Team will lend its helping hand for the final time this month, with the group to dissolve due to the improvements in technology.
Founded in 1988 by stroke survivors and carers, TRUST has helped assist the rehabilitation and recovery of stroke patients at the Toowoomba Hospital.
It has also funded the purchase of several new pieces of equipment for the Toowoomba Hospital through the Toowoomba Hospital Foundation, raising $76,642 during its operation.
The newest machine is a tilttable, which will allow physiotherapists to optimise the acute rehabilitation of patients post stroke, spinal cord injury or severely deconditioned patients with impaired lower limb strength.
The group has now decided that this donation will be its final one before the dissolution.
Toowoomba Hospital Foundation CEO Alison Kennedy said the foundation, patients and staff of the Toowoomba Rehabilitation Unit were grateful for the support.
“The TRUST was established before the Toowoomba Hospital Foundation and they have been a wonderful support network for patients of stroke,” she said.
“Its funding activities have made a real difference in the lives of people who need rehabilitation care and this new tilttable will continue to help Allied Health staff in the treatment of stroke patients for many years to come.
“Thirty years of support is an incredible achievement and we’re proud to be able to continue its legacy through funding life-changing equipment and programs for the Toowoomba Hospital Rehabilitation Unit.”