# 237 Stroke Recovery Toolbox: Evidence Based Clinical Strategies and Assessments
Course Summary:
One of the longest-running and most-requested stroke courses in the field! Participants will develop a toolbox of evaluation tools and treatment strategies for people with stroke, from the days following stroke to the community setting. Learn easy, free ways to find the best evidence to support your treatments, 4 stroke-specific, validated evaluation tools to gauge patient progress and improve reimbursement, and effective treatment strategies. Frequently-seen impairments, and the theory and effectiveness of common treatments and technologies are discussed, including approaches to spasticity, shoulder pain, ambulation, and hemiparesis. Video cases and hands on “breakouts” complement didactic information. The course is hierarchically organized so that knowledge and treatments discussed build on previously-presented information. The day culminates with a discussion and “how to” of modified constraint-induced movement therapy; a reimbursable, outpatient therapy used for over a decade across the country that was developed by Dr. Page and his team.Expand your treatment and assessment toolbox with this stimulating course!
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Describe and use 2 online stroke “engines” for finding the best and most recent evidence
• Describe the fundamentals of plasticity and the conditions under which it occurs in healthy individuals and stroke survivors
• Describe the Brunnstrum stages of stroke
• Describe and administer the upper extremity Fugl-Meyer Assessment
• Identify and describe 3, stroke-specific outcome measures and with whom they are optimally used
• Describe spasticity and its relationship to neuroplasticity
• Describe and administer the Modified Ashworth Spasticity Scale
• Describe and differentiate common treatments for spasticity
• Discuss and differentiate different treatment strategies for electrical stimulation of the lower and upper extremities
• Describe the administration of modified constraint-induced movement therapy
Physical Therapists, Physical Therapy Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapist Assistants and Athletic Trainers
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