2-Day Stroke Rehabilitation Certificate Workshop

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Benjamin J. 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 neurological rehabilitation and clinical leadership. He has experience in leadership within multiple clinical settings including home health, skilled nursing, outpatient, acute, and inpatient rehab. He is known for generating both employee and patient satisfaction as they move toward their desired goals. His expertise lies specifically in the following diagnoses: stroke, Parkinson’s, concussion, and vestibular rehabilitation.

Dr. White has a history of physical therapy in the state of Texas for over a decade. He has owned his own practice and worked within multiple healthcare settings. He now serves as the market director representing inpatient rehab in the state of Tennessee for HCA Healthcare.

Dr. White is an award-winning clinical instructor, a renowned national speaker, and has published numerous articles on the topics of neuroplasticity and stroke. He has a history of serving the Parkinsonian population in their homes and in the community assisting them to return to their own desired optimal function from an emotional and functional realm.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Benjamin White 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.

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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