Clinical Reasoning and Motor Learning: Dressing, Toileting, Bathing

Course overview

This course applies clinical reasoning and motor learning principles to essential self-care tasks dressing, toileting, and bathing; within neurorehabilitation. These activities are more than daily routines; they are critical opportunities to foster independence, self-efficacy, and neuroplastic recovery. Using a structured four-step framework, clinicians will learn to analyze task demands, assess individual impairments and assistance levels, modify environmental factors, and layer evidence-based motor learning strategies to design meaningful, progressive interventions. Through real patient videos, therapists will work through the framework in action; observing, reasoning, and applying strategies to rebuild daily function through purposeful, patient-centered practice. This course is designed for occupational and physical therapists working with individuals recovering from neurological injury or living with neurological conditions.