Chronic Stroke Rehab

Stroke rehab is an area where we have some of the most abundant research to draw on as occupational therapists.

But that abundance can make it hard to synthesize it all into the right action steps for your clients.

In this Ask Me Anything live webinar and course, we answer your questions on chronic stroke assessment, goal-setting, and treatment. You'll also find our full treatment guide on chronic stroke, which we keep up to date.

Our guest, Christopher Gaskins, PhD, OTR/L, CSRS, is uniquely poised to tackle this topic. He's worked at Walter Reed as a neuro OT, runs his own neuro private practice, and has consulted with the US military as a health consultant. He also has a particular interest in mental workload — both what our patients can take on, and how to ease your own as you tackle a topic this complex.

1. You will recognize occupational-based assessments of chronic stroke.

2. You will be able to identify which OT interventions for chronic stroke have the highest level of evidence supporting them.

• Intro

• Discussion

  1. How has your thinking about chronic stroke evolved over the years?

  2. How do you choose the right assessment?

  3. How do you approach goal setting?

  4. How do you choose the right intervention?

  5. What are your considerations for patient education?

  6. How can technology reduce the mental workload for therapists and patients?

• Live AMA

• Closing

• Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines for Adults With Stroke

• Minimal and robust clinically important differences for patient-reported outcome measures of fatigue in chronic stroke survivors after fatigue rehabilitation

• The evolution of neuromodulation for chronic stroke: From neuroplasticity mechanisms to brain-computer interfaces

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Speaker interests: Christopher Gaskins is the founder and CEO of Neurosuite, a neurorehabilitation company that provides clinical services, health technology consultation, and neurorehabilitation education and research services.

Alan Linic hosted this episode and has no financial interest in this topic to disclose.