‘20 Reps a Day aren’t going to cut it’
Brian is a stroke survivor who reflects on amounts of practice in this inspiring Blog. Brian understands that change is not achieved without doing significant numbers of repetitions of practice and here he describes some of his achievements in amounts of practice and the changes he has made to his right leg strength and his ability to walk. Read [...]
Kate Scrivener – Use of video-guided technology to deliver exercise programs
Kate Scrivener Use of video-guided technology to deliver exercise programs: Research and Implementation Introduced by Simone Dorsch
Caitlin Reid – Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor
Caitlin Reid Rehab Physio and Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor Presented by Simone Dorsch
Resources for Tele-rehab
With the current COVID-19 crisis many Stroke survivors and people with people with mobility problems are receiving less inpatient or outpatient rehab and being offered Tele-rehab instead. StrokeEd aims to produce resources to help clinicians to move into this new type of delivery of rehab. There are some excellent resources about the logistics of [...]
Spasticity Part 4
Distinguishing between stiffness, contracture and spasticity There are many secondary complications or adaptations which may (or may not) occur after stroke including. These can include neural (eg hypertonicity) and non-neural adaptations (eg stiffness, contracture, excessive muscle activity associated with compensatory strategies and early skill acquisition). Because of the lack of agreement about what spasticity [...]
Spasticity Part 3
Disagreement about the Lance spasticity definition A proposed alternative definition of spasticity by Pandyan et al. Over the years there has been reluctance to accept the Lance definition of spasticity. This reluctance seems to arise from the observation that there are many changes to the sensori-motor system that may occur after a stroke. [...]