About the StrokeEd Collaboration

Established in 2011, the StrokeEd collaboration is an Australian registered company and education provider. Members of the collaboration offer evidence-based workshops and lectures to improve the skills, knowledge and practice of rehabilitation therapists, and influence the delivery of rehabilitation services to stroke survivors.

StrokeEd collaborators are:

• Experienced clinicians, educators and active researchers
• Recognised leaders in their profession
• Higher research degree graduates (PhD or masters by research)
• Experienced providers of rehabilitation in public and/or private health
• Registered physiotherapists and occupational therapists

Strategic Plan, 2022-2025

To improve skills, knowledge and practice in stroke rehabilitation, we will:

• Deliver 20-40 workshops per year, online and face-to-face; topics include upper and lower limb retraining, walking analysis and training, increasing the intensity of practice (1000 reps), balance retraining, coaching, constraint-induced movement therapy, and translating research into practice
• Deliver one or more Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) per year which is affordable to professionals in high income countries, free to therapists in middle and low-income countries, and in languages other than English
• Provide free resources (or access to free resources) including lectures, apps, worksheets, critical appraisals, blogs, journal articles and book chapters.
• Involve stroke survivors and carers in workshops, so that therapists can apply skills learned, and optimise their collaboration with stroke survivors
• Apply adult-learning principles when teaching (ie reflection, personal goal setting, modelling and coaching)
• Request and use feedback about workshop content and delivery
• Reduce or waive fees for therapists in developing countries to enable participation

To influence the delivery of stroke rehabilitation services, we will:

• Deliver workshops in a variety of settings including public and private hospitals, private rehabilitation clinics, universities and online
• Collaborate with stroke survivors in hospital and community settings
• Build research capacity within health services
• Conduct collaborative research with health services, which often involves honours and postgraduate research students
• Develop, influence and teach into the rehabilitation curriculum at universities for physiotherapists and occupational therapists in Australia and overseas
• Participate in national committees and working parties, such as the Australian Stroke Guidelines Working Party and Stroke Foundation Clinical Council, PEDro, Australian Physiotherapy Association and Occupational Therapy Association board/committees