Benjamin White – 2-Day: Stroke Rehabilitation Certificate Workshop

Outline

Functional Neuroanatomy and Neuroplasticity

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

Stroke Assessment Skills, Scales and Scores

• 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