Course Description:
Stroke accounts for a large amount of death and disability annually across the world. With advancing medicine, more individuals are surviving stroke than ever. As rehabilitation professionals, it is our responsibility to provide these individuals with the most evidence-based approach to examination and treatment to maximize functional recovery. The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive approach to stroke management based on functional presentation. In addition, we will review medical, pharmacological, and anatomical characteristics in stroke management to develop a collaborative and thorough approach to treatment.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, PT/OT participants will be able to:
• Explain incidence, prevalence, and characteristics of individuals who suffer from stroke
• Apply understanding of neuroanatomy to functional exam and treatment planning
• Connect task and activity analysis to functional examination and treatment planning for stroke survivors
• Demonstrate appropriate evidence-based treatment utilizing the principles of neuroplasticity through case-based learning
• Complete comprehensive patient care plan in collaboration with other healthcare professionals
• Explain secondary risks for stroke survivors and professional role in intervention
At the end of this course, PTA/OTA participants will be able to:
• Describe incidence, prevalence, and characteristics of individuals who suffer from stroke
• Correlate gross neuroanatomy with clinical findings
• Understand and implement evidence-based interventions and collaborate with the
interdisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes
• Better understand the examination process, clinical reasoning, and task analysis in individuals
post-stroke
• Discuss secondary risks for stroke survivors and professional role in intervention
Intended Audience:
The information presented in this course is clinically relevant for Physical Therapist (PT) and Occupation and Occupational Therapy (OT) practitioners.
Disclaimer: Registrations from individuals with clinical designations not listed in the intended audience for this course may be subject to removal from the course roster without a full refund. See Brooks IHL Course Policies and Procedures for details at Brooksihl.org. If you are unsure or have questions related to the intended audience, please email CEU@BrooksIHL.org and we will be happy to help clarify!
Course Education Level: Intermediate
Contact Hours:
This course has been approved for 17.5 contact hours by the following boards:
• Florida Physical Therapy Association
• Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
Continuing Education credit for each participant who meets the satisfactory course completion requirements (licensed in FL) will be automatically uploaded to CE Broker, which means the Florida Boards will have record of your attendance, even if you do not have your own personal CE Broker account. Course certificates will be provided at the completion of the course for those that meet the course completion requirements. Certificates will be mailed for courses that include a post-course test.
Enrollment:
If you are a Brooks Clinician and want to pay by cost center, please fill out this registration form and return the check and form to the Brooks IHL.
Satisfactory Course Completion:
Full course attendance (including signing the attendance sheet each day), performance demonstrations and question and answer session.
Course Evaluation/Survey:
Within 48 hours of course completion, you will receive a post course survey. The IHL values your feedback and we thank you in advance for taking the survey.
Timed Agenda
Day 1
8:00am – 9:30am: Welcome and Introduction to Stroke Rehabilitation
9:30am-9:40am: Break
9:40am-10:40am: Neurologic Assessment Following Stroke: Using anatomy to guide the clinical exam
10:40am- 10:50am: Break
10:50am- 11:20am: Utilizing Task Analysis to Guide Clinical Decision-Making
11:20am-12:00pm: Outcome Measures in Stroke Rehabilitation: Linking Evidence with Practice
12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm-1:15pm: Vision in Rehabilitation
1:15pm – 1:30pm: Spasticity
1:30pm-2:00pm: Motor Planning and Perceptual Disorders
2:00pm-2:10pm: Break
2:10pm-2:40pm: Functional Cognition
2:40pm-3:40pm: Examination Lab
3:40pm-3:45pm: Break
3:45pm-4:45pm: Examination Lab (continued)
4:15pm-5:00pm: Questions & Day 1 Wrap up
Day 2
8:00am-8:15am: Evidence-Informed Practice: UE Rehabilitation
8:15am-8:40am: Dosage and Timing: UE Function
8:40am-9:05am: Dosage and Timing: Motor Function and Locomotion
9:05am-9:15am: Break
9:15am-9:45am: Foundational Treatment Principles
9:45am-10:15am: Interventions Breakouts
10:15am-10:30am: Break
10:30am-12:00pm: Interventions Lab
12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm-1:30pm: AHA/ASA Clinical Practice Guidelines
1:30pm-2:30pm: Technology and the stroke population: Realistic Clinical and Financial Considerations
2:30pm- 2:45pm: Break
2:45pm-3:30pm: Technology Lab
3:30pm-4:00pm: Community, Health and Well-being
4:00pm-4:30pm: Multi-disciplinary Plan of Care
4:30pm-5:00pm: Questions/wrap up
