Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach: Module 8

Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach: Module 8
Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach: Module 8
SKU: 748

by Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA

These courses are offered in cooperation with Elsevier Health and utilize the hardback textbook, “Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach, 3rd Edition” by Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA.

Extensively updated with the latest research in assessment and intervention, these essential courses present a holistic, application-based approach that integrates background medical information, samples of functionally based evaluations, and current treatment techniques and intervention strategies to help you confidently manage the growing number of stroke rehabilitation clients.

Module 1: covers pathophysiology, medical management and acute rehabilitation of stroke survivors, psychological aspects of stroke rehabilitation and improving participation and quality of live through occupation.

Module 2: covers the task-orientated approach, activity-based interventions in stroke rehabilitation and approaches to motor control dysfunction.

Module 3: covers trunk control, balance impairments and vestibular rehabilitation for stroke patients

Module 4: covers upper extremity function and management and rehabilitation
technologies to promote upper limb recovery

Module 5: covers edema control, splinting applications and functional mobility

Module 6: covers gait awareness, management of visual and visuospatial impairments and the impact of neurobehavioral deficits on ADLs.

Module 7: covers treatment of cognitive-perceptual deficits, speech and language deficits and enhancing the performance of ADLs after a stroke.

Module 8: covers parenting after stroke, driving and community mobility, dysphagia and sexual function and intimacy.

Module 9 covers seating and wheeled mobility, home evaluation and modifications, adaption to one-handed management of the environment and leisure participation after stroke.

Course Length: 8.0 contact hours

Instructional level: Intermediate


This package contains the reading and testing materials for Module 8 only.


Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach: Module 8

Course Goals and Objectives:

Course Goals: This course is intended to instruct the student, through self-paced study, on parenting, driving and community mobility as an instrumental activity of daily living, dysphagia management and sexual function and intimacy after stroke

Student Objectives:

At the end of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify visual history

2. Outline transitional tasks

3. Relate a basic understanding of one-handed baby care task performance

4. Distinguish examples of adapted baby care equipment

5. Apply parent child collaboration to a baby care task

6. Identify an emotional or cognitive problem that can affect baby care

7. Relate the importance of teamwork between rehabilitation professionals and mental health practitioners in services to parents who have had strokes

8. Define driving and community mobility as instrumental activities of daily living

9. Identify the role of the rehabilitation professional in addressing driving and community mobility issues at different stages of rehabilitation and recovery for the stroke survivor

10. Outline the legal issues associated with involvement of driving issues and how to manage liability risks

11. Identify performance skill deficits related to a stroke and client factors that can interfere with the occupation of driving

12. Outline the current accepted practice for a comprehensive driving evaluation for the stroke survivor

13. Identify resources for information, education, and referral in addressing driving and community mobility as an instrumental activity of daily living

14. Identify the normal anatomy and physiology of the swallowing mechanism

15. Outline the effects of stroke on the swallowing mechanism

16. Distinguish clinical and instrumental assessment of dysphagia following stroke

17. Differentiate between various rehabilitative and compensatory techniques used to treat dysphagia after stroke

18. Relate the efficacy of dysphagia intervention following stroke

19. Identify the normal human sexual response cycle and the changes that occur during the aging process

20. Relate the effects of stroke on sexual function

21. Identify the role of the rehabilitation professional in sexuality intervention with a stroke survivor

22. Distinguish between sexual impairments and how they affect function

23. Contrast treatment interventions for impairments affecting sexual function

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