Advances in Motor Control and Learning for Neurological Rehab

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Apply the latest research to design treatment programs for patients with impaired gait, hemiparesis and other motor control deficits, including those resulting from stroke, Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy and other neurological conditions

In many rehabilitation settings, therapists are faced with the challenge of how best to teach motor skills to patients. In pediatric settings, the challenge is to optimize the learning of new skills, while in neurologic and geriatric settings, therapists primarily focus on changing inappropriate motor behavior and the re-learning of motor skills. Successful therapists must be able to accurately determine the cause of motor skill impairments and then design treatment approaches that facilitate the learning or re-learning of motor skills. In today's fast paced health care environment, therapists must be adept in structuring the learning environment to promote the quickest and longest lasting changes in a patient’s motor skills.

In this one-day course, you will examine current theoretical and applied perspectives in the field of motor control and learning and will discuss their implications for therapeutic evaluation and treatment. Course discussion will be focused at the behavioral level and will compare and contrast information processing and dynamic systems models in understanding normal and pathological human motor behavior. Implications for treatment stemming from both approaches will be examined. Participants will constructively criticize current assumptions underlying motor control rehabilitation and discuss how theoretical frameworks bias evaluation and treatment options. Given an understanding of past and current approaches to motor control and learning, participants will be able to flexibly design their own unique treatment approaches to optimize functional outcomes in each patient.

WHAT YOU WILL COVER

• Translate recent developments in motor control and learning into interventions for neurological rehabilitation across the life span
• Use the constraints theory to promote the re-emergence of motor skills in stroke patients
• Facilitate movements using perception-action coupling
• Flexibly design evaluation and treatment approaches for impaired gait, hemiparesis and other motor control deficits
• Structure the learning environment to optimize skill learning in neurologic and pediatric settings
• Integrate recent developments in motor control and learning into interventions for pediatric, geriatric and neurologic rehabilitation
• Assess underlying causes of motor skill impairments
• Utilize the process of perception-action coupling to help facilitate movement
• Differentiate between changes in performance and motor learning
• Describe how to structure the environment to facilitate motor skill learning
• Use a holistic approach to promote the re-emergence of motor skills
• Design flexible evaluation and treatment programs for patients with stroke, cerebral palsy, Parkinson's and other neurologic and pediatric conditions

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Physical Therapists
• Physical Therapy Assistants
• Occupational Therapists
• Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants

Sponsor Background:

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