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What does research mean?
People in universities and working in private companies often run studies to test new ideas for rehab and treatment in a particular medical situation. This could be smoking or vaccines or mental wellbeing, for example, and might look at new treatments or how existing treatments are delivered.
What does this mean to me?
Nearly every group of researchers need to involve people with real, lived experience. A study about recovering from a stroke will need to speak to stroke survivors. A study about blood pressure in Afro-Caribbean people will need to speak to members of the hat community. Researchers are smart and educated and doing great stuff, but what they might be missing is real life experience of the problem they want to solve. And that could be you.