Course curriculum

  • 1

    Course Overview

    • Course Description and Objectives
  • 2

    Online Course

    • Part 1 - Inpatient Rehabilitation
    • Part 1 - Knowledge Checks
    • Part 2a - Outpatient Rehabilitation
    • Part 2b - Discussion of Outpatient Rehabilitation
    • Part 2 - Knowledge Checks
  • 3

    Independent Study

    • Independent Study Instructions
    • Hornby, 2016 Knowledge Checks
  • 4

    Survey - Please provide feedback

    • Feedback Survey

Course Description

This course uses a case-based format to educate participants on how to apply and modify high-intensity gait training (HIT) for a patient following stroke who has walking and non-walking goals. This challenging case demonstrates decision-making when the treatment is confounded by the patient’s global aphasia and apraxia. Two sessions are included in the course. The first session will focus on the patient’s participation in outpatient rehabilitation with emphasis on the barriers and facilitators to providing the intervention. During the subsequent session, case discussion will focus on the same individual’s inpatient rehabilitation and the associated experiences with attempting to provide this intervention earlier following neurologic injury. oth sessions will incorporate information from research and discussions about how to apply the evidence in clinical practice. This course also includes an independent study component that consists of reading a relevant article and successfully answering 5 questions about the article.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  1. Verbalize at least two relevant physical interventions for a given patient with biomechanical deficits in gait
  2. Summarize the evidence regarding the potential benefits of high-intensity gait training over conventional interventions in subacute stroke
  3. Describe the current evidence regarding the incidence and best-practice treatment recommendations for aphasia and apraxia post-stroke

Instructors

Derek Mallory, PT, DPT, is a physical therapist and Certified Brain Injury Specialist. He received his Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Indianapolis in 2021, where he served as a teaching assistant. Currently, Derek works in inpatient rehab on the traumatic brain injury unit at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. At work, he leads a monthly brain injury journal club and has served as a clinical instructor. He also stays involved with his profession as a committee member of the Indiana chapter of the APTA.



Chris Henderson, PT, DPT, PhD, is an Assistant Research Professor within Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Physical Medicine and the Director of Innovation for the Institute for Knowledge Translation. He has his PhD in Biomechanics and Movement Science from the University of Delaware. He has also completed a Neurologic Physical Therapy Residency jointly supported by the Clement J Zablocki Veterans Affairs Hospital and Marquette University. Dr. Henderson’s work is focused on optimizing the rehabilitation of individuals following acute onset neurologic injuries and translating evidence-based interventions into routine neurologic physical therapy.

Continuing Education Units

  • 3.0 Total CEU's

    The course will provide a total of 3.0 CEU's that were approved by the Indiana Physical Therapy Association. Check with your local association about requirements to transfer CEUs.

  • Required Reading

    "Variable Intensive Early Walking Poststroke (VIEWS): A Randomized Controlled Trial" (1.17 CEUs with a required knowledge check)

  • Video

    1.83 CEU's come from the recorded course done by Abbey Plawecki who is a Board-Certified Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy and works as a research physical therapist within Indiana University’s Locomotor Recovery Lab.