Managing the Lower Functioning Individual: An NDT Workshop
Location
Back Works Physiotherapy, Waterloo
Presenter(s)
Karen Guha, PT, BScPT, C/NDT, CIDN, NDTA CI
This one-day workshop will explore current NDT principles and handling skills to promote recovery in an individual post-stroke or brain injury who is lower functioning. As therapists we often struggle to determine where to start and how to progress an individual who requires more assistance. This workshop will include progression strategies in sitting, standing, and early gait. We will explore how to involve a second person (assist x 2) when working with the lower functioning individual. The workshop will provide participants with additional skills to enhance consistency in patient care and contribute to the overall team rehabilitation efforts of achieving functional outcomes for patients.
Upon completion of this workshop the participants will be able to: Understand current literature and apply this within the NDT Clinical Practice Model to treat the individual with neurological impairments. Explore treatment strategies (assist of one and two) to address impairments within functional activities including activities in sitting, standing and early gait. Demonstrate basic handling skills to enhance patient’s movement as related to his/her functional goals during sitting, standing and walking