NOVEMBER 2022 SERIES

APRIL 2022 SERIES

NOVEMBER 2021 SERIES

Engagement in Rehabilitation

Author: The StrokeEd Collaboration

Duration: 46 mins

Details: Originally presented to the Concentric rehabilitation group in October 2022  by Simone Dorsch and stroke survivor Brian Beh

Title: The lecture uses a model of engagement in rehabilitation to outline the ways in which therapists can increase peoples’ engagement in rehab and decrease the likelihood of disengagement. It contains a discussion on the practice variables that can increase fatigue during therapy.

Implementing upper limb CIMT in Australia
– Part 1

Author: The StrokeEd Collaboration

Duration: 30 mins

Details: Presentation at the International (virtual) CIMT Symposium, 21-23 Jan 2022 by Annie McCluskey, the StrokeEd Collaboration, Australia

Title: A 2-week CIMT program was feasible when run by 3 Australian public health services and improved upper limb use after stroke: A knowledge translation study

Co-authors: McCluskey A 1 2, Massie L 3 4, Gibson G 5, Pinkerton L 5 6, Vandenberg A 7

Implementing upper limb CIMT in Australia
– Part 2

Author: The StrokeEd Collaboration

Duration: 30 mins

Details: Presentation at the International (virtual) CIMT Symposium, 21-23 Jan 2022 by Lauren Christie, the StrokeEd Collaboration, Australia

Constraint-induced movement therapy or CIMT is a strongly recommended intervention in the Australian national stroke guidelines yet routine delivery remains poor, with a recent national audit demonstrating that less than 12% of eligible people received a CIMT program. The barriers to CIMT delivery in practice have been well explored, however there has been limited research investigating how to address these barriers and translate CIMT into routine practice. This presentation reports on a suite of six studies completed as part of Lauren’s PhD, investigating and describing how multiple CIMT programs were effectively implemented and sustained in routine practice in Sydney, Australia over 18 months.

The studies include an international survey of CIMT use (n=169), a series of interviews with experienced OTs and PTs (n=11) from six countries who have continued to deliver CIMT over several years, development and evaluation of a behaviour change program to help OTs and PTs from 9 services to deliver and sustain CIMT programs in public health, an economic evaluation, and interviews with stroke and brain injury CIMT participants.

Understanding Upper Limb Spasticity Post-Stroke – Part 1

Author: The StrokeEd Collaboration

Duration: 48 mins

Details: Presented by Karl Schurr, physiotherapist and member of the StrokeEd Collaboration, Australia. This lecture is the first in a 2-part series about the relationship between upper limb spasticity and contracture post-stroke, the effects of interventions including botulinum toxin, and implications for rehabilitation practice. Karl discusses stiffness and ‘tone’ (and argues that the term ‘tone’ is unhelpful), and how to measure spasticity reliably.

The second lecture presents information and research about upper limb contracture post-stroke.

This lecture was recorded during a workshop on upper limb retraining in 2021.

Understanding Upper Limb Contracture Post-Stroke – Part 2

Author: The StrokeEd Collaboration

Duration: 38 mins

Details: Presented by Karl Schurr, physiotherapist and member of the StrokeEd collaboration, Australia

This lecture is the second in a 2-part series about the relationship between upper limb spasticity and contracture, prevalence and predictors of contracture, interventions that have been evaluated using RCTs to prevent and reverse upper limb contracture including stretching, splinting and casting (disappointing key message: no benefit from any of these interventions). Karl concludes with reflections on what to do clinically to prevent or reverse contractures.

The lecture was recorded during an online workshop in 2021.

10 things I wish I’d known about stroke and upper limb retraining

Author: The StrokeEd Collaboration

Duration: 20.42