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Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach: Module 9

At Home Seminars

Objectives

At the end of this course, the student will be able to: 1. Relate the seating system and mobility system evaluation process 2. Discriminate between seating for rest and seating for activity performance 3. Outline a treatment plan and identify the goals of the mobility device and seating and positioning system 4. Differentiate between the pros and cons of different mobility bases and seating system components 5. Relate the influence of the seating system on carryover of treatment goals 6. Relate the importance of the team process throughout the evaluation and fitting/delivery process 7. Relate the importance of fitting and training with the recommended system and mobility device 8. Distinguish between methods of assessing the home environment for barriers 9. Analyze the architectural guidelines as established by the American National Standards Institute 10. Relate methods for modifying the home environment and increase safety and mobility independence for patients recovering from stroke 11. Differentiate between a variety of adaptive techniques and assistive devices to allow for completion of activities of daily living 12. Relate the strategy of enhancing performance of activities of daily living using principles of energy conservation and work simplification 13. Outline environmental modifications to enhance safety and ease of mobility in the performance of activities of daily living 14. Define leisure, types of leisure, and functions of leisure activities 15. Relate the changes in an individual’s ability to engage in leisure tasks after a stroke 16. Identify problems that may interfere with a patient’s participation in leisure tasks 17. Identify possible solutions to these problems 18. Outline research addressing leisure participation and rehabilitation professional interventions after stroke 19. Outline ways rehabilitation professionals can adapt leisure tasks to allow partial or full participation by someone with a disability caused by a stroke Additional Information

Confirmation Notes

These courses are approved for 8.0 contact hours each.
Instructional level: Intermediate
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Testing: You can take your test online, fax your answer sheets, or mail your test. All tests are processed within 24 business hours regardless of how they are received. Testing online is free and you will find out immediately if you have passed or failed and can print a temporary certificate until your original arrives in the mail.

Description

These courses are offered in cooperation with Elsevier Health and utilize the hardback textbook, “Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach, 3rd Edition” by Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA.
Extensively updated with the latest research in assessment and intervention, these essential courses present a holistic, application-based approach that integrates background medical information, samples of functionally based evaluations, and current treatment techniques and intervention strategies to help you confidently manage the growing number of stroke rehabilitation clients.
Module 1: covers pathophysiology, medical management and acute rehabilitation of stroke survivors, psychological aspects of stroke rehabilitation and improving participation and quality of live through occupation.
Module 2: covers the task-orientated approach, activity-based interventions in stroke rehabilitation and approaches to motor control dysfunction.
Module 3: covers trunk control, balance impairments and vestibular rehabilitation for stroke patients
Module 4: covers upper extremity function and management and rehabilitation technologies to promote upper limb recovery
Module 5: covers edema control, splinting applications and functional mobility
Module 6: covers gait awareness, management of visual and visuospatial impairments and the impact of neurobehavioral deficits on ADLs.
Module 7: covers treatment of cognitive-perceptual deficits, speech and language deficits and enhancing the performance of ADLs after a stroke.
Module 8: covers parenting after stroke, driving and community mobility, dysphagia and sexual function and intimacy.
Module 9 covers seating and wheeled mobility, home evaluation and modifications, adaption to one-handed management of the environment and leisure participation after stroke.
This package contains the reading and testing materials for Module 9 only.
Course Goals: This course is intended to instruct the student, through self-paced study, on seating and wheeled mobility prescription, home evaluation and modifications, adaptations for activities of daily living and leisure activity participation after stroke.

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