2-Day: Stroke Rehabilitation Intensive Training Course: Best Practices for Rapid Functional Gains and Improved Outcomes

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Benjamin White, PT, DPT, MBA, C/NDT, LSVT BIG Related seminars and products

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Benjamin White, PT, DPT, MBA, C/NDT, LSVT BIG, is an expert in stroke rehabilitation who serves as the lead neurological therapist at a not-for-profit healthcare institution in Texas. A graduate of the University of Texas Health Science Center’s physical therapy program, he has treated a wide array of neurological diagnoses over the years, from concussions and vestibular disorders to stroke, Parkinson’s, and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Dr. White is an award-winning clinical instructor, a renowned national speaker on stroke rehabilitation topics, and has published numerous articles on the topics of neuroplasticity and stroke. In addition, he serves on the Neuro-Development Treatment (NDT) publication committee and is the co-president of the Brazos Valley Parkinson’s Association.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Benjamin White maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the University of Texas and Common Spirit Healthcare. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Benjamin White has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Develop a specialty niche in your facility catering to acute and chronic stroke survivors.
2. Evaluate stroke survivors with assessment skills, scales and scores for extremity functionality, balance and stability.
3. Employ training interventions to optimize gait speed and reduce fall risk.
4. Determine root causes for stroke related impairments for more targeted treatment plans.
5. Investigate how exercise instills improved cognition and connect this information to treatment approach.
6. Employ a functional paradigm to stroke intervention and assessment.
7. Determine appropriate levels of intensity in stroke rehab to increase patient safety.
8. Use evidence-based techniques to more successfully work with spasticity in post-stroke patients.
9. Determine how post-stroke patients struggling with stability and walking efficiency can benefit from orthotic treatments.
10. Evaluate pain alleviation techniques that can be applied to manage extremity pain in poststroke patients.
11. Analyze how vestibular rehab can be incorporated into stroke rehabilitation to improve gaze stability and reduce symptoms of imbalance.
12. Employ techniques that use the upper and lower extremity together instilling a proper messaging center to the paretic side of the body.

Outline

• Neuroplastic changes following brain ischemia
• Lost automatic movements and postural balancing
• Theoretical approaches to Neurorehabilitation

• Upper extremity assessment
• Lower extremity assessment
• Gait, balance and coordination
• Strength, mobility and stability
• Stroke specific executive function assessment

Mobility and Gait:

Optimize Walking Ability and Restore Functional Mobility

• Stellar documentation
• Functional approach
• Reverse the tide of chronic compensatory patterns
• Gait training interventions to increase and optimize
• Root cause for impairments
• Gait speed and fall risk
• Active stretching
• Rhythm and coordination
• Orthotics: friend or foe?
• Supplementary devices to encourage volitional support

Spasticity Solutions for Post Stroke Patients:
Interventions and Techniques for Successfully Working with…

• Chronic spasticity
• Low level patients with spasticity
• Upper and lower extremity

Post Stroke Orthotic Treatments:
How You Can Use Orthotics with Patients to…

• Maintain range of motion
• Stabilize upper and lower extremities
• Correct positioning and improve gait
• Improve stability and efficiency while walking

Management of the Hemiplegic Shoulder

• Subluxation
• Decreased sensation
• Weakness
• Coordination

Extremity Pain Management

• When does “no pain, no gain” ring true and when it does not?
• Yellow or red flags
• Pain alleviation techniques
• Spinothalamtic neuronal tract and pain management

Executive Function

• Outcome measure for assessment and treatment
• Its effect on the learning process
• Its effect on patient prognosis

Pusher Syndrome and Motor Apraxia

• Neurodevelopment treatment tactics
• Outcome measure
• How to reduce stress on patient and employee
• Transfer practices
• Evidenced-based Intervention

Visual Rehab After Stroke

• Incorporated vestibular rehab into stroke rehab
• Importance of visual processing
• Cranial lesions and visual processing
• Cranial nerves and visual processing

Target Audience

• Physical Therapists
• Physical Therapy Assistants
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Therapy Directors
• Other Rehab and Healthcare Professionals

Location

1100 Central Ave SE, Savage Auditorium, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, United States