Neuro Training School wins Supporting the Industry Award at the Personal Injury Awards 2025
For most of the last decade, qualified massage therapists have been telling me the same thing: they want to work with clients living with neurological conditions, but no one ever taught them how.
In 2025, Neuro Training School was named winner of the Supporting the Industry Award at the Personal Injury Awards recognition that the gap is real, the work to close it matters, and that the rehabilitation and case-management sector wants therapists who are properly trained for this kind of clinical work.
What the Personal Injury Awards recognise
The Personal Injury Awards bring together organisations across the UK rehabilitation, case management, legal, and clinical support sectors — the people who work with patients after stroke, brain injury, spinal injury, and the wider landscape of life-altering neurological events.
The Supporting the Industry Award recognises organisations whose work materially raises the standard of care, education, or client support across the field.
For a small specialist training school, sitting in that company is meaningful. It’s also a useful signal to therapists deciding whether specialist training is worth investing in: the rehabilitation industry takes this seriously, and so should they.
Why the school exists
Neuro Training School came directly out of clinical practice. After more than twenty years working as a massage therapist — several of those years specialising exclusively in neurological and complex-care clients — I kept being asked the same questions by other therapists.
How do I adapt massage safely for someone with Parkinson’s? Can I work with a client after a stroke? What do I need to know before treating someone with MS, MND, or a brain injury?
The willingness to help was everywhere. The training pathway barely existed.
Neuro Training School was built to fill that gap with structured, practical, CPD-accredited training designed specifically for therapists working with neurological and complex presentations. The current curriculum covers stroke, brain injury, MS, Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy, MND, safeguarding, inclusive communication, and working alongside clinical care teams.
What the award reflects
This isn’t only about one school. It reflects a wider change across rehabilitation and wellness: a recognition that people living with neurological conditions deserve practitioners who understand how to work alongside their needs safely, respectfully, and clinically — not therapists who hope for the best.
That standard starts with education.
Thank you
Thank you to every student who has trusted the training, every clinical contributor who has helped shape the curriculum, and every client whose care has informed the work.
Thank you to the Personal Injury Awards judging panel for recognising specialist education as part of how this industry raises its standards.
The next phase of work is already underway.