Stroke Rehabilitation (Chatiwala - Online)

Course overview

Each year nearly 800,000 people experience either a new or recurrent stroke. Stroke is a leading cause of adult disability in United States and some of these disabilities caused by stroke include deficits in motor planning and coordination, neglect, visual deficits, gait and balance impairments, aphasia, and apraxia. As health care professionals our role in treating this patient population is vital in the continuum of care of stroke rehabilitation: from acute care setting to subacute/rehab, home health to outpatient. This relevant, one-day course will focus on learning new and updated concepts as it relates to assessing and treating individuals with stroke. Participants will engage in the latest research as well as case studies and patient videos to gain a better understanding to implement best practices. Participants will be able to have better rehabilitation outcomes by having enhanced knowledge about advances in gait training, perception and cognition, hemiplegic shoulder, task specific training, treating neglect, postural control and overview of orthosis to treat hemiparetic gait. Participants will leave this course feeling they have more tools to both evaluate and treat movement dysfunction.