Helping our Heroes
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elp for Heroes is undoubtedly a household name. The popular charity has leapt from strength to strength with a forever expanding online merchandise shop, supporting countless initiatives and fundraising events all over the country and creating more and more local rehabilitation centres for veterans suffering from both physical and psychological disorders.
Occupational therapy is a crucial part of what they do at these centres. Many of these brave men and women have been overseas and have seen awful things and,
more often than not, they come back, not only mentally scarred, but physically injured. Veterans who have been seriously injured have to then adjust to normal life, this can be very difficult and some need help with even the most basic of tasks. Occupational therapists are inundated with new and extreme caseloads, each Serviceman or woman as in need as the last. Rosie Curtis, the 26-year-old occupational therapist working in Tedworth House, the Tidworth-based Help for Heroes Recovery Centre, is just one of a large team of healthcare professionals that › www.
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