Brain Anatomy and Cerebrovascular Accident
- Prevalence and types of stroke
- Etiology and Pathophysiology
- Incidence/Epidemiology
- Anatomy and cerebral blood flow
Common Impairments and Essential Treatments
- Sensory and coordination
- Visual changes
- Synergies and motor recovery
- Weakness and reflexes
- Muscle tone and flaccidity
- Perception and cognition
- Neglect
- Pusher Syndrome
- Emotional status
- Postural control and balance
Critical Principles of Management
- Understanding hypertonicity and spasticity
- Range of motion limitations
- Force production
Reimagine Recovery After a Stroke
- Motor recovery and motor learning
- Neuroplasticity
- Movement deficits
- Atypical movement
- Compensatory movements
Enhance Funcational Outcome Measures
- Berg Balance Scale
- Timed Up and Go
- Falls Efficacy Scale
- Four Square Step Test
- Five Times Sit to Stand
- Clinical practice guidelines
Individualized Goal Setting and Documentation
- Keeping patient’s goals in mind
- Key terms to maximize reimbursement
- Showing patient progress through documentation
Results Driven Treatment Interventions
- Importance of frequency, intensity, type, and time
- Motor function strategies
- Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation
- Neuro-developmental treatment
- Constraint Induced Movement Therapy
- Task-specific training
- Facilitation and stretching
- Upper and lower extremities
- Gait and balance training
- Modalities
- Technological advances
Novel Case Studies
- Clinical reasoning
- Postural control
- Balance training
- Handling to facilitate motor function/response
- Handling to inhibit undesired responses
- Virtual treatment interventions
- Gait training
- Task-specific training
