One-day seminar schedule example

Note: Seminars schedules can be modified in a number of ways. For instance, the schedule could reflect an additional day, or an alternate focus.

7:30am – Registration & Breakfast
8:00am – Course Begins

I. Neuroplasticity I: Neuroplasticity Made Simple

• Neuroplasticity demystified  
• A historical perspective on neuroplasticity  
• Rules for driving neuroplastic change  
• Technologies for measuring neuroplastic change

II. Neuroplasticity II: Direct Implications Of Neuroplasticity On Stroke

• The importance of neuroplasticity after stroke  
• How the brain rewires after stroke  
• Reactivating salvageable neurons after stroke  
• Tools, treatments and therapies to rewire the brain after stroke

10:00-10:15 Break

III. Modified Constraint Induced Therapy (mCIT): Neuroplastic and Reimbursable

• The history of constraint induced and forced use therapies
• An evidence based review of constraint induced therapy
• Understanding learned non-use
• Modified Constraint Induced Therapy: a reimbursable alternative
• Choosing the “right candidate” for mCIT therapy
• Implementing a structured mCIT program
• Reimbursement for mCIT

11:30am 12:30 pm — Lunch on Your Own

V. Evidence-Based Stroke Recovery

• The research–based therapist as the ultimate stroke recovery tool
• How rehabilitation research establishes efficacy
• Easy and seamless ways to an evidence-based practice
• Tricks for easy access to stroke-specific rehabilitation research

1:00-1:15 Break

V. Spasticity Measurement, Management, and A New Vision of Spasticity Reduction

• What works and what does not: a critical review
• Understanding spasticity: the first step in reduction
• Spasticity management and therapeutic strategies
• Spasticity measurement that can be done clinically
• A new perspective on tone reduction: start with the brain

VI. Tools To Reestablish Sensation and Proprioception

• Prevalence of sensation loss after stroke
• Passive and active sensory recovery strategies
• Using technology to reestablish sensation

VII. Review, Wrap-up and Evaluations

3:30pm – Course Adjourns