Jonathan Henderson – Stroke Rehabilitation Master Class: Best Practices for Rapid Functional Gains and Improved Outcomes

Outline

Hot Topics and Innovations in Stroke Rehabilitation

• How your patients can benefit from cutting edge research

Upgrade Your Assessment and Clinical Reasoning Skills

• Today’s best evaluations for:
  • Sensory and coordination
  • Visual changes
  • Synergies and motor recovery
  • Weakness and reflexes
  • Muscle tone and flaccidity
  • Perception and cognition
  • Postural control
  • Gait, balance and coordination
• Hands-on Lab

Revolutionize Your Rehab Toolbox

• Effective techniques you can use immediately to:
  • Ignite neuroplasticity for breakthrough results
  • Restore functional strength more quickly
  • Enhance function and multi-tasking ability
  • Reduce spasticity
  • Restore limb use
  • Resolve impairments from a more functional, person-centered perspective
  • Improve transfers with less strain
  • Prevent falls with effective gait training
  • Improve strength, balance and coordination
  • Design a more effective home program
  • Intensify therapy safely and effectively
  • Re-engage difficult or depressed patients
• Hand-on Lab

Combine Techniques More effectively for Better Outcomes

• Practice integrating:
  • Constraint-induced movement therapy
  • Task-specific training
  • Dual task interventions
  • Neuro-developmental Treatment (NDT)
  • Neuro-handling techniques
  • Balance and gait training
  • Postural control
  • PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation)
  • Functional activities
  • Therapeutic exercise
  • Technological advances
  • Neuroplasticity-building interventions
• Hands-on Lab

Design Advanced, Innovative Plans of Care for Your Patients

• Comprehensive treatment strategies for specific impairments, including:
  • Ataxia
  • Hemiparesis
  • Neglect
  • Pusher syndrome
  • Spasticity
  • Subluxation
  • Gait and mobility
  • Decreased sensation
  • Reduced flexibility
  • Muscular weakness
  • Timing/coordination
• Hand-on Lab

Case Studies: Put Knowledge to Practice

• Case study 1: Correctly select the root cause of impairment
• Case study 2: Apply advanced gait training and multitasking techniques
• Case study 3: Re-engage a difficult or depressed patient
• Case study 4: Overcome barriers to effective strategy implementation
• Case study 5: Adjust your plan of care for technological advances

Don’t Leave the Money on the Table!

• Coding and billing updates
• Justify therapy with the right progress measures
• Avoid denials and audits with these tips