Stroke Rehabilitation -Improve Functional Outcomes and Reduce Readmissions – Jonathan Henderson

Stroke Rehabilitation -Improve Functional Outcomes and Reduce Readmissions by Jonathan Henderson,
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Faculty:
Jonathan Henderson
Duration:
5 Hours 48 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Mar 29, 2019

Description

Learn how therapy can impact the lives of individuals in an effective stroke rehabilitation program. You will gain creative and evidence-based approaches to incorporate into your practice immediately. Master practical assessment tools and hands-on task-specific training to create patient-centered, impairment-based plans of care. Progress your interventions with gait training and balance and core strength training to improve upper and lower extremity functional improvement. Increase your reimbursement and decrease hospital readmission rates with improved clinical reasoning, appropriate goal setting, and applicable outcome measures.

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Outline

BRAIN ANATOMY AND CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT

  • Prevalence of stroke
  • Incidence/Epidemiology
  • Types of stroke
  • Anatomy and cerebral blood flow

COMMON IMPAIRMENTS AND TREATMENTS

  • Sensory and coordination
  • Visual changes
  • Synergies and motor recovery
  • Weakness and reflexes
  • Muscle tone and flaccidity
  • Perception and cognition
  • Postural control and balance

RECOVERY AFTER A STROKE

  • Motor recovery
  • Movement deficits
  • Atypical movement
  • Compensatory movements

FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME MEASURES

  • Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
  • Berg Balance Scale
  • Timed Up and Go

GOAL SETTING AND DOCUMENTATION

  • Keeping patient’s goals in mind
  • Key terms to maximize reimbursement
  • Showing patients progress through documentation

TREATMENT INTERVENTIONS

  • Importance of frequency, intensity, type and time
  • Motor function strategies
  • PNF
  • NDT
  • Constraint Induced Movement Therapy
  • Task-specific training
    • Upper and lower extremities
  • Gait and balance training
  • Modalities
  • Technological advances

CASE STUDIES

  • Clinical reasoning
  • Postural control
  • Balance training
  • Handling to facilitate motor function/ response
  • Handling to inhibit undesired responses
  • Gait training
  • Task-specific training

Faculty

Jonathan Henderson, PT, DPT, C/NDT's Profile

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Bartlett NeuroRehab Physical Therapy


Jonathan Henderson, PT, DPT, C/NDT, is an expert in stroke rehabilitation, who brings a unique clinical eye to treating patients with neurological deficits, honed from his experience in both acute care and inpatient rehab settings. He maintains a busy outpatient clinical practice in Memphis, TN, which focuses on providing neurological and orthopedic care to older adults, and is a Credentialed Clinical Instructor (CCI) and has served as director of the Physical Therapist Assistant Program at Concorde Career College.

Dr. Henderson travels nationally to present seminars on stroke rehabilitation, and he is known for his dynamic, hands-on teaching style. He earned his Doctor of physical therapy from Alabama State University, and he is also certified in neuro-developmentaltreatment with a focus on stroke and brain injury rehab. He is an active member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), Neurodevelopmental Treatment Association (NDTA), and the American Academy of Physical Therapy. (AAPT).

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Jonathan Henderson is owner of Bartlett NeuroRehab Physical Therapy. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Jonathan Henderson is a member of the American Academy of Physical Therapy; the American Physical Therapy Association; and the Neuro Development Treatment Association.


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