Stroke rehabilitation workshops for physiotherapists and occupational therapists
Upper Limb Retraining
- Does the routine use of electrical stimulation after stroke reduce shoulder subluxation and help muscle recovery?
- Does muscle stretching or hand splinting
Stroke rehabilitation workshops for physiotherapists and occupational therapists
Upper Limb Retraining
- Does the routine use of electrical stimulation after stroke reduce shoulder subluxation and help muscle recovery?
- Does muscle stretching or hand splinting prevent wrist contractures after stroke?
This workshop teaches therapists how to minimise upper limb impairments in people post-stroke, and increase engagement in activities such as picking up a cup and using cutlery to eat. Workshop content is based on research about movement science/motor relearning and evidence-based interventions.
Retraining Lower Limb Skills
- What muscles are essential for sitting and standing balance during reaching?
- Why is acceleration of the trunk forward (ie hip flexion) important for standing up?
- How does hip flexion at the beginning of swing phase contribute to knee flexion?
This workshop teaches therapists how to minimise lower limb impairments in people post-stroke and increase engagement in activities such as sitting, standing up, sitting down and walking. Workshop content is based on research about movement science/motor relearning and evidence-based interventions.
- What is the difference between an instruction and a cue?
- What type of feedback is beneficial for learning?
- What can therapists do to motivate people to do more practice?
The workshop addresses a skills-gap identified by health professionals who teach stroke and brain injury survivors to regain/learn new skills. After teaching evidence-based workshops for many years, it became apparent that coaching skills were rarely targeted for peer review. This workshop will provide professionals with knowledge and current evidence about optimal coaching and the opportunity to objectively appraise and practise their coaching skills.
- How much practice is enough?
- How can therapists increase patient motivation and involvement in practice?
- How can therapists help coach patients with varying levels of motivation?
The aim of this workshop is to recommend strategies that can increase the dosage and intensity of practice in inpatient, outpatient and community rehabilitation settings. The workshop is relevant to diagnoses such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, amputation and hip fracture and will be of interest to physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, allied health assistants and nursing professionals. Evidence is reviewed for the effectiveness of extra practice, and strategies that have been shown to increase practice including one-to-one, semi-supervised and independent practice.
- Why should people not use their hands for support when doing balance exercises?
- Do walking aids prevent falls?
- How can therapists help people to ‘challenge’ their balance while being safe?
This balance workshop has been developed following the work by Professor Cathie Sherrington and colleagues that provided clear exercise guidelines to successfully improve balance and prevent falls. Despite this evidence, implementing these guidelines in clinical practice continues to be a major clinical challenge. Therapists have asked the StrokeEd collaboration about how to implement effective balance strategies that are challenging, of sufficiently high dosage and safe. This workshop aims to assist clinicians to develop evidence-based solutions for people with balance difficulties.
- Why is translating research findings and evidence into practice so challenging for health teams?
- What are common barriers and enablers to behavior change, and how do you address the barriers?
- Which behaviour change intervention should you use and in in what circumstances?
- How do you measure change in practice?
This workshop provides an introduction to knowledge translation and explains the process of implementing evidence. Examples of common research-practice gaps will be presented from Australian stroke audits and guideline recommendations. Therapists will be invited to identify research-practice gaps relevant to their practice, such as underuse of seated reach/balance retraining beyond arms reach, upper limb constraint-induced movement therapy or electrical stimulation.
Registrations are being accepted for the following workshops.
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July 2 @ 8:00 am - July 4 @ 5:00 pm
July 5 - July 6
July 30 - August 1
August 14 @ 8:00 am - August 16 @ 5:00 pm
September 17 @ 8:00 am - September 19 @ 5:00 pm
“We inspire therapists to be good coaches, to help stroke survivors reach their potential and continue improving with challenging goals, judicious feedback and by measuring progress.
If therapists and stroke survivors persist, recovery will continue.”
The Strokeed Team
Planning a Workshop
Upper Limb Workshop
The workshops are aimed at occupational therapists and physiotherapists who work with people who have had a stroke. Therapy assistants can attend the workshop.
Lower Limb Workshop
These workshops are aimed at physiotherapists who work with people who have had a stroke.
Occupational therapists who work with people with stroke are welcome to attend as there is significant overlap of skills between these professions.
1000 REPS Workshop
This workshop aims to give therapists strategies to help patients to increase the amount of practice they are doing in inpatient, outpatient and community rehabilitation.
The workshop will be of interest to physiotherapists, physiotherapy assistants and other health professionals from hospital and community based settings who work with people with balance problems.
Knowledge Translation Workshop
This workshop provides an introduction to knowledge translation and explains the process of implementing evidence. Examples of common research-practice gaps will be presented from Australian stroke audits and guideline recommendations.
The workshop will be of interest to health professionals who teach students, novice practitioners, family members and attendant carers.
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