Author: The StrokeEd Collaboration
Presented: 29th February 2024
Duration: 1hr 15m
Presenters:
Dr Daniel Eaves
Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science (Biomechanics), Newcastle University, England, UK.
As an academic at Newcastle University, Daniel studies the processes underlying human movement. He is particularly interested in the interplay between perception and action, across the disciplines of Sport and Exercise, Rehabilitation, Psychology, and Neuroscience. For over a decade, Daniel has investigated the effects of mental practice on human movement using behavioural and neurophysiological measures, with around 20 publications on this topic. Daniel is one of four academics who co-lead the Research in Imagery and Observation (RIO) Group. Please check out the RIO Group online: https://riogroup.weebly.com
Ass/Prof Rachel C Stockley
PhD MSc BSc FHEA, is a physiotherapist & Associate Professor in Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, England, UK
Rachel is an experienced neurological physiotherapist and researcher. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, where her work focusses on researching rehabilitation after stroke. She currently leads a programme of work examining digital health technologies in upper limb rehabilitation, spanning the life cycle of technology from design, development, evaluation and implementation. She has been involved in a range of studies of technologies and rehabilitation nationally and internationally, including trials of virtual reality, applications and wearable technologies.
Ass/Prof Sarah Moore
BSc (Hons), PhD, PGCAP, Associate Professor Northumbria University, Honorary Highly Specialist Physiotherapist Northumbria Healthcare, Associate Clinical Researcher, Stroke Research Group, Newcastle University, England, UK
Sarah is an experienced neurological physiotherapist and researcher. She is an Associate Professor at Northumbria University in the UK, where her work focusses on researching rehabilitation after stroke. She currently leads a programme of work examining daily activity and behaviour change after stroke and the implementation of complex interventions into stroke rehabilitation.
Description: Dan Eaves, Rachel Stockley and Sarah Moore present this popular workshop from the Dec 2023 UK Stroke Forum, in Birmingham, England. Learn how to create and deliver your own mental practice session, that is immersive and realistic for a stroke survivor, with a simple co-created layered script. An evidence-based intervention that can be used instead of hand splinting and Bobath therapy to elicit movement in the hand and arm.
Learning objectives
By the end of the presentation, attendees should be able to:
- Be able to summarise the current evidence for mental practice for the recovery of the upper limb after stroke
- Apply skills and knowledge about how to implement mental practice in their clinical setting
- Understand how to use a framework to consider the key components of a mental practice script and begin to develop a mental practice scripts for their setting
Handout
You can download a handout, which is available at the following link: https://advancingrehab.com/mental-practice-resource/
Scroll down the AdvancingRehab webpage to register your name and email address, then wait for an email which will arrive shortly afterwards, taking you to the handout. You will also find a link to Rachel Stockley’s 2021 systematic review on the effectiveness of mental practice on the AdvancingRehab webpage.