Brian Beh is a 71-year-old stroke survivor who sustained a left lacunar stroke in April 2016. A retired management consultant and corporate communications executive, Brian is no stranger to confronting and managing corporate change in the business world. As a pioneer of change management in Australia, this background and experience assisted Brian during his [...]
Stand in a rehabilitation gym, listen to the communication between therapists and patients, and think about how to describe that communication. Does the communication mostly centre on what the therapist wants the patient to do for them? The following transcript comes from just one minute of a therapy session. Push, very good, excellent, now [...]
This is the third of a three-part blog series on semi-supervised practice. This blog describes how to use equipment to increase the safety and effectiveness of semi-supervised practice. Man with a stroke practising a step-up exercise Environment set-up for safety Wall on unaffected side Height adjustable table in front Chair [...]
This is the second of a three-part blog series on semi-supervised practice. This blog will describe how to adapt the physical environment of a gym to make setting up semi-supervised easier. The third blog in this series will describe how to use equipment to increase the safety and effectiveness of semi-supervised practice. To enable semi-supervised [...]
This is the first of a three-part blog series on semi-supervised practice. This blog will discuss the what is meant by the term semi-supervised practice, why this mode of practice might be used, and the education needed for staff, patients and relatives to implement semi-supervised practice in rehabilitation. The following three blogs will contain more [...]
Kate has been busy recently developing a number of online resource packages. These include resources for both stroke survivors and therapists! There are currently two research projects being conducted about these programs. TRAIN is being investigated by a survey pre and post program completion and TASK is being investigated in a feasibility study. We [...]
This is a study that I did in order to examine the impact of instructions on how hard people work - the results show a dramatic change in sit to stand performance with simple but deliberate changes in the instructions given Simone Goal-oriented instructions can increase the intensity and amount of practice completed by [...]
This within participant repeated measures study examined the effect of using goal-oriented instructions compared to a non-specific baseline instruction in stroke survivors. The participants did the same exercise across three days, their rate of repetitions was measured with a baseline non-specific instruction first and then they were given one of three goal-oriented instructions (in [...]
Ward, Brander, Kelly (online early, 2019). Intensive upper limb neurorehabilitation in chronic stroke: outcomes from the Queen Square programme. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry Nick Ward's team at Queen Square (London) have published outcomes of 224 stroke survivors attending their NHS UL rehabilitation programme (a 3-week day program, 90 hours total, up to [...]
Wenke R, O’Shea K, Hilder J, Thomas R & Michakn S. (2019). Factors that influence the sustainability of structured allied health journal clubs: a qualitative study. BMC Medical Education, 19:6. Wenke R, Thomas R, Hughes I, & Mickan S. (2018). The effectiveness and feasibility of TREAT (tailoring research evidence and theory) journal clubs in [...]