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Benjamin White – 2-Day: Stroke Rehabilitation Certificate Workshop
Description
This Stroke Rehabilitation Certificate Workshop, with its displayable certificate of recognition, is the perfect way for you to let patients, employers and colleagues know that you’ve invested time and effort into specialized training without the additional fees, forms and lengthy exams of credential granting certification programs.
Dr. Benjamin White is an expert in stroke rehabilitation, and an award-winning clinical instructor, who has helped countless stroke survivors leave their limitations behind.
Dr. White will make both evidence-based and cutting-edge resources available to you in a way that is instantly applicable to your work — showing you how to turn years of research and practice into practical strategies and techniques so you can:
- Skillfully assess extremity function, gait, balance, coordination, executive functioning and more
- Optimize your patients’ walking ability and restore their functional mobility
- More successfully work with spasticity in post-stroke patients
- Knowledgably use orthotics to stabilize extremities and improve stability
- Manage extremity pain with today’s best practices
- Restore executive functioning and visual skills
Better still, this training will provide you with hands-on labs and practice so you can reinforce what you’ve learned and gain confidence in using your new skills!
Purchase today and leave knowing that you have what it takes to guide patients toward rapid functional improvements and greater independence with the best methods available!
Handouts
| Manual – 2-Day Stroke Rehabilitation Certificate Workshop (4 MB) | 92 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
Functional Neuroanatomy and Neuroplasticity
- Neuroplastic changes following brain ischemia
- Lost automatic movements and postural balancing
- Theoretical approaches to Neurorehabilitation
Stroke Assessment Skills, Scales and Scores
- 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
Faculty
Benjamin White, PT, DPT, C/NDT, LSVT BIG, is an expert in stroke rehabilitation who serves as the lead neurological therapist at a not-for-profit healthcare institution in Texas. A graduate of the University of Texas Health Science Center’s physical therapy doctoral program, he has treated a wide array of neurological diagnoses over the years, from concussions and vestibular disorders to stroke, Parkinson’s, and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Dr. White is an award-winning clinical instructor, a renowned national speaker on stroke rehabilitation topics, and has published numerous articles on the topics of neuroplasticity and stroke. In addition, he serves on the Neuro-Development Treatment (NDT) publication committee and is the co-president of the Brazos Valley Parkinson’s Association.
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