Sam's big trip to Hervey Bay

While our head office is located in Oxley, Brisbane, MND Queensland provides services and support to people impacted by Motor Neurone Disease right across the State. Usually our Allied Health services are delivered to people outside of South-East Queensland by telehealth but recently one of our Occupational Therapists, Sam Fisher went on a massive trip to Hervey Bay to help our client Michael.

Sam hit the road to Hervey Bay in mid-December with a van load of equipment for Michael to trial. Sam stayed in town overnight and helped Michael the following day with a telehealth consultation .

The van was loaded with equipment for Michael to test out including powered wheelchairs, an electric bed, air mattress, eye-gaze device, hoist and a shower commode. Sam provided her expert Occupational Therapy advice to Michael in person to make sure that all of the equipment provided was suitable and safe for him to use.

Before making the long trip back to Brisbane, Sam assisted Michael with a telehealth consultation with our Speech Pathologist, Georgia Cuskelly. This approach was designed so that the back-to-back consultations weren’t too taxing on Michael so that he didn’t have to do everything in the space of one day. This is a great example of MND Queensland’s expert multidisciplinary services at work!

If you’d like to access equipment or any of our specialist services such as Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, NDIS Support Coordination, Voice Banking and more, get in touch with Queensland's MND experts by calling us on 1800 777 715 or email info@mndaq.org.au or visit www.mndaq.org.au.

Pictured: Our client Michael who had a visit from Sam