Putney’s Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability responds to BBC1 documentary Between Life and Death (From Surrey Comet)

Putney’s Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability responds to BBC1 documentary Between Life and Death

7:10am Wednesday 28th July 2010 in

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Putney’s Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (RHN) has praised its patients after the release of a BBC1 documentary about living with locked-in syndrome (Lis).

Between Life and Death followed the story of Richard Rudd, who unexpectedly began blinking his eyes after a motorbike had previously left him in an unresponsive state last October.

Now, nine months on, Mr Rudd can move his head from side to side and smile at his family thanks to doctors at Addenbooke's Hospital’s leading brain injury unit in Cambridge.

In response to the programme, RHN’s assistive technology manager, Gary Derwent, said: “I would like to pay tribute to those of our patients and residents who, like Richard Rudd, are living with locked-in syndrome.”

Mr Derwent said many people with this rare condition in fact feel optimistic, despite the unlikely chances of a full recovery, adding the hospital offered various services and therapies for anyone affected by neurological impairments.

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