Michelle Green – Igniting Neuroplasticity after Stroke: Breakthroughs for Improving Motor Recovery

Description

Learn how to ignite recovery in stroke patients with innovative interventions that re-educate the movement patterns needed for compensation and recovery.
Michelle Green – Igniting Neuroplasticity after Stroke: Breakthroughs for Improving Motor Recovery
Find out what is important for neuroplasticity to occur, and discover how to unlock the potential in cognitively impaired patients who cannot communicate or do not understand the goals of treatment. Take home key motor control strategies and targeted treatments for progressing patients from any level toward functional recovery and community reintegration.

Handouts
Manual – Igniting Neuroplasticity after Stroke (1.87 MB) 43 Pages Available after Purchase

Outline
Review the latest research on neuroplasticity and its implications for stroke rehabilitation

Describe moto control and motor learning theories
Introduce 5 Stages of Trask Performance
Correlate deficits in task performance to identified impairments
Develop framework for treatment progression based on 5 Stages of Task performance

Identify steps for improving task assessment, intervention selection, progressions, and ultimately functional outcomes, using key concepts related to neuroplasticity, motor control, and motor learning

Define recovery and compensation
Identify factors that guide our decisions to move toward interventions for recovery versus compensation

Premorbid ability
Stroke prognostic factors
Stage in recovery
Process where intervention is occurring
Insurance/LOS limitations

Provide evidence for recovery over compensation early in the rehab process
Promote inclusion of compensation and recovery within treatment progression