Stroke Rehabilitation: Throw Out Those Cones
MedBridge provides clinicians and healthcare organizations a comprehensive education platform that includes clinical education, patient education, and home exercise programs to advance their knowledge, engage patients in their recovery, and...
The Sixth Vital Sign
MedBridge provides clinicians and healthcare organizations a comprehensive education platform that includes clinical education, patient education, and home exercise programs to advance their knowledge, engage patients in their recovery, and...
Questions To Ask Your Occupational Therapist
This guest post was provided to us by Hoang Tran from Hands On TherapySo maybe you have had an injury to your body such as a broken bone or surgery,...
Reclaim Your Stability With Core Exercises For Stroke Recovery
After a stroke, many patients struggle with poor control and strength in the muscles on one side of the body. While the focus of recovery is often on the limbs...
How To Get The Most Out Of Your Hand Strengthening Program Following A Stroke
If you are setting out on a hand strengthening program following a stroke or spinal cord injury, you are seeking to retrain your muscles, joints, mind and central nervous system....
The Stroke Belt
Strokes aren't always predictable or preventable. However, there are many different traits and habits that overwhelmingly correspond to higher risks, so it's easier than ever to determine your individual risk...
Clinical Examination of the Painful Hemiplegic Shoulder
Successful clinical outcomes are typically the result of the therapist’s ability to perform a thorough and accurate examination.
Strengthening a Spastic Muscle. Why the Kerfuffle?
Not as much now, but in the recent past, discussing strength training a hyperactive or spastic muscle was a very controversial topic amongst clinicians at happy hour, in the clinic, or at CEU’s.
De-icing the Mystery Behind Hemiplegic Frozen Shoulder
If you have attended a Saebo course in the past, you most likely have heard the comment “it is the hand that guides the arm”.
An Orthopedic Approach to the Hemiparetic Upper Limb: Understanding the Biomechanics and Pathoanatomy of the Shoulder.
Before I co-founded Saebo, I was a practicing occupational therapist specializing in non-operative orthopedic medicine and manual therapy of the upper quadrant.
Neurorehabilitation; What Are Some of the Things We Know?
There is alot we still don’t know about what constitutes “best practice” when it comes to neurorehabilitation and how to affect optimal recovery and outcomes, but there are some things...
Stroke, Not So Old...
Social Issue According to the American Heart Association (AHA, 2013) stroke can occur at any age however recent studies indicate that over the past 15 years there has been an...