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Will Chegwidden

@willchegwidden.bsky.social
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Aussie Dep Head of Therapies (RAAR/rehab) at Kings in London. OT. Interests: neuro-rehab, cognitive rehab, apraxia, upper limb, trauma, unilateral neglect, FND & HIV. LGBTQIA+. Trans ally. Humanist. Cat guy. Danophile. Beer geek. Bookish. Aus republican.

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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I can beat that, during a pandemic clean-out
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
My flat smells very Christmassy after putting together these mulling spices as little preses for my awesome team!
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Combining the interests of Victorian architecture, train geekery, local events and dancing like it’s 1999, we had a blast at the Silent Disco in the Crystal Palace Subway last night ….
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Well that @humanists.uk event at The British Library was immensely enjoyable. The new book’s contributor list looks like a dream dinner party list…Tim Minchin, Sandi Toksvig, Paul Sinha, Stephen Fry, Dan Snow, Helen Czerski, Alice Roberts and slightly less expectedly, Frank Turner and Janet Ellis
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Nothing says The Joy of Turning 50 like a bowel screening kit
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Have had a couple of week’s break from work related social media to celebrate a big birthday… thanks to these groups of peeps and others! Feel very blessed.
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
10 year old Will would say the archaeopteryx, these days I love my Crystal Palace Iguanodon. This is me getting up close with them on a tour a few weeks ago
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Think I’m just going to go exercise my free hit.
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Does blue count? Off to Heaven, late 1998
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Those bloody cakes
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Doing cool stuff with patients
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Merlin watching Larry
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A pandemicky tweet.
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The time Lucky went viral. At the time my biggest re-tweet, before I started making toilet related cakes
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
So I think I want to completely close my Twitter account, so I am going to rescue my favourite moments. Top of the list, the time Victoria Coren Mitchell interacted with me. I nearly lost my shit, as she is my secret girl-crush
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
13/ If you find yourself really getting in to things, then here are a few more useful books
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
8/ There is a lot of really interesting research being done on the mind-body interface, on predictive processing and on he role of interoception in FND. This book by Lisa Feldman Barrett and is an easy read and should be compulosry reading for ALL neuro AHPs. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Seven and a half lessons about the brain
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So where can I learn how to use PRPP? In the UK, we now have our first trainers: www.prpp-uk.com The next course starts tomorrow so you are too late for that, but keep an eye out for more courses in the UK, as well as Australia, Canada, Scandinanvia. I did my intervention course in Switzerland...
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
1) You have free choice of task/activity. As long as it breaks in to steps, you can use it. So simple tasks (pouring a glass of water) whole tasks (brushing teeth), whole activities (making a meal), or a routine,(getting ready for work). This means you can choose relevant/meaningful tasks.
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It has two arms, an assessment arm & an intervention arm. The intervention arm is a criterion referenced and uses task-analysis. It gives a score of task mastery, a profile of errors & analyses peformance in domains of function, based on information processing theory. So why do I like it so much?
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I also should post some cat pics, this is Lucky who I lost during the pandemic after 15 years. He was a character, and one our fabe things was #fridaycatselfie
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
They also published a free manual online, the link to it is currently broken but I am happy to share it if you DM me. If anyone has a working link for it, please post it here.
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Bisuits in the shape of the Broken Hearts Test
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A cake of Wheelchair Ken and OT Ken doing some garden in a model of the raised beds at the Wolfson Neuro-rehab centre
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A cake in the shape of a raised toilet seat
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Bringing over my highest re-tweeted posts to this format, 4/5 are cbakes I have made for OT week over the years.... I didn't manage it this year sadly.
A cake made of Wheelchair Ken getting in to a bath using adaptive equipment
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Will Chegwidden @willchegwidden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
So the neuro-rehab team I have been setting up at Kings over the past year got to our capacity of 8 patients in September, and we made a cake to celebrate. It's been hard work but improving the rehab offer for complex patients in acute settings has been so worthwhile.
A room full of healthcare workers holding a cake in the form of a number eight
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