Semi-supervised practice – Part 1
This is the first of a three-part blog series on semi-supervised practice. This blog will discuss the what is meant by the term semi-supervised practice, why this mode of practice might be used, and the education needed for staff, patients and relatives to implement semi-supervised practice in rehabilitation. The following three blogs will contain more [...]
An update on useful online stroke resources
Kate has been busy recently developing a number of online resource packages. These include resources for both stroke survivors and therapists! There are currently two research projects being conducted about these programs. TRAIN is being investigated by a survey pre and post program completion and TASK is being investigated in a feasibility study. We [...]
Goal-oriented instructions and Practice Intensity
This is a study that I did in order to examine the impact of instructions on how hard people work - the results show a dramatic change in sit to stand performance with simple but deliberate changes in the instructions given Simone Goal-oriented instructions can increase the intensity and amount of practice completed by [...]
Goal-oriented instructions
This within participant repeated measures study examined the effect of using goal-oriented instructions compared to a non-specific baseline instruction in stroke survivors. The participants did the same exercise across three days, their rate of repetitions was measured with a baseline non-specific instruction first and then they were given one of three goal-oriented instructions (in [...]
Intensive upper limb neurorehabilitation
Ward, Brander, Kelly (online early, 2019). Intensive upper limb neurorehabilitation in chronic stroke: outcomes from the Queen Square programme. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry Nick Ward's team at Queen Square (London) have published outcomes of 224 stroke survivors attending their NHS UL rehabilitation programme (a 3-week day program, 90 hours total, up to [...]
Running a successful journal club
Wenke R, O’Shea K, Hilder J, Thomas R & Michakn S. (2019). Factors that influence the sustainability of structured allied health journal clubs: a qualitative study. BMC Medical Education, 19:6. Wenke R, Thomas R, Hughes I, & Mickan S. (2018). The effectiveness and feasibility of TREAT (tailoring research evidence and theory) journal clubs in [...]