[Download Now] Stroke Rehab for Patients who “Push”: Management Strategies for a Unique Patient Population – Michelle Green

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Pushing behavior can be difficult to rehabilitate from a stroke. Patients who push are often low level, need a lot of assistance, and do not respond to typical treatment interventions. The root causes of pusher syndrome will be shown in this recording.

The recording will show you how to address the root causes of pusher syndrome with evidence-based treatment activities and progressions. To maximize treatment outcomes, learn how to assess and address the limiting impairments of pusher patients, using the ICF model and principles of neuroplasticity to select the right intervention at the right time, and to maximize treatment outcomes.

In order to apply treatment ideas in any environment, appropriate assessment tools and functional performance tests will be practiced. This course will give you techniques that are applicable to other patients who present with similar impairments such as difficulty with midline, retropulsion, trunk malalignments, and postural control deficits. The course will take your treatments to the next level.

1. Discuss current literature regarding suggested pathology of “pusher syndrome”
2. Recognize and list common characteristics and functional presentation of a patient who “pushes”
3. Develop a skill set for understanding normal movement as well as executing task analysis for assessments of impairments limitations
4. Discuss the criteria critical in categorizing the “pusher” patient as a low, mid, or high-level “pusher”
5. Identify appropriate treatment interventions for the low, mid, and high-level “pusher” patient to specifically improve noted activity limitations
6. Practice supporting and positioning techniques that enhance safely for the clinician and patient
7. Strategize progressions of interventions to reduce impairments and lessen activity limitations to maximize participation for each patient with “pusher syndrome”

The model is used for assessment and treatment.

• ICF Models guide to clinical reasoning
• Levels of ICF definitions and examples
• Correlation with assessment, prognosis and treatment planning

PathoPHYSIOLOGY OF PUSHING.

• Role of vestibular system
• Localization of lesions correlating with “pushing”
• Thalamic lesions and “pushing”
• Role of graviceptive systems
• Best support for occurrence of “pushing”

CHARACTERISTICS OF PUSHERS.

• Alignment faults (trunk, head, pelvis, femur)
• Movement dysfunction
• Midline deficits
• Other (sensory loss, visual, neglect, cognition)

There are assessment tools.

• Tests to confirm presence of “Pushing”
• Outcome measures
• Role of upper and lower trunk assessment

There is a hybrid drive called Task-ANALYSIS.

• Why use this framework for clinical reasoning
• What is the framework
• How it guides tasks assessment and guides treatment choices
• How to execute a task analysis
• Neuroplasticity and directing treatment choices
• Motor control and motor learning theories on set-up and progression

There is a treatment set-up for success.

• Choosing a position for treatment
• Align patient for best results
• Activate muscles in coordinated sequenced fashion to mimic functional demands
• Rehabilitation of function
• Compensation or Recovery?

There is a treatment for the low,mid and high levels of phlegm.

• Primary characteristic for each level
• Starting point and progression
• Functional re-education considerations
• Use of objects, adjunct, and equipment in treatment

There is a review about management strategies for a unique patient population. Management Strategies for a Unique Patient Population is a download. Patients who push: management strategies for a unique patient population.