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Using
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In this eNews:
- New Adult Best
Practice Cognitive & Motor Skills Self-Study Courses
Available
- Research News:
Music Therapy Shows Potential in Stroke Rehab
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Three-dimensional motion analysis of
the effects of auditory cueing on gait pattern in
patients with Parkinson’s disease: a preliminary
investigation
- Upcoming Live
Courses- last month to get courses at
$175 before the course cost goes up
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New Adult Best
Practice Cognitive & Motor Skills Self-Study Courses
Available Now!
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Adult Rehabilitation Best Practices: Cognitive Skills
Although adolescent/adult patients benefit greatly from
auditory and auditory-visual IM, some continue to
demonstrate deficits in visual processing, attention,
and executive functions. This was the observation of a
Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) at a Level II Trauma
hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. In order to help
these patients achieve further recovery, she developed
several IM best practices that proved to be extremely
beneficial to her patients. Spurred on by the treatment
outcomes achieved by this SLP, other clinicians in her
field developed and implemented additional best
practices for the treatment of language processing and
executive functions.
Across the U.S. in
Arizona, another SLP reported integrating treatment
tasks for Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech with IM,
improving treatment outcomes for communication and
language. This clinician has since developed best
practices for using IM in skilled nursing facilities and
with patients who suffer from dementia. This course
contains helpful assessment and treatment strategies for
the treatment of cognitive-communicative deficits in
neurologically impaired adolescents/adults. Where
applicable, specific treatment tasks, stimuli, and
hierarchy are described in detail.
Course Meets Requirements for:
- 4.0 Contact Hours
ASHA &.AOTA
Register Now!
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Adult Rehabilitation Best Practices: Cognitive Skills
Interactive
Metronome (IM) is a performance-based feedback system
that was initially developed as a tool to facilitate
learning, sensory processing and attention in children.
Early on, researchers and clinicians realized the
potential of IM to also facilitate learning and neuro-muscular
control in adults, especially for patients suffering
from neurological conditions. The “Golf Study” performed
by Terry M. Libkuman and Hajime Otani was the first
study performed on adults which showed that IM was
appropriate for this age group and possibly for persons
suffering from orthopedic conditions. This study showed
that IM improved the shot accuracy of golfers up to 35%
by improving core skills. The case of Brenda Canup is a
prime example of IM’s potential place in orthopedic
rehabilitation. Mrs. Canup opted for a below-the-knee
amputation after struggling with a foot deformity all of
her life. After surgery, she became frustrated with her
lack of progress and was still ambulating with a walker.
Later in her treatment, after she’d lost virtually all
hope of ever ambulating with her new prosthetic limb,
she started the IM program and was finally ably to make
a full recovery and run the Disney Marathon. After
further reports of good treatment outcomes with IM in
this age group, clinician’s began to incorporate IM more
and more into treatment of the adult ortho and neuro
patient. IM is now a standard of care in many adult
outpatient clinics, rehabilitation hospitals, nursing
homes, assisted living centers, home health agencies and
acute hospital settings.
Until now clinicians have
adapted IM technology for adult patients based upon
knowledge, research and evidence- based practices
employed in the pediatric populations. It has therefore
become clear that there is a need in the Interactive
Metronome (IM) community to develop “Best Practice
Guidelines” to provide the clinician with proven
techniques that will enhance their clinical practice and
understanding IM as a tool for adult rehabilitation.
This
course is therefore designed to provide the certified IM
user with advanced practice guidelines and techniques
for the adult patient based on sound evidence and the
clinical skills of advanced IM practitioners. The
material for the manual is therefore provided by
clinical experts their respective fields and the
information will be organized into area of the body and
specific diagnosis.
Course Meets
Requirements for:
- 9.0 Contact Hours
OT/COTA (AOTA) = 0.9 CEUs
Register Now!
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Research News
Music Therapy Shows
Potential in Stroke Rehab
Music therapy provided
by trained music therapists may help to improve
movement in stroke patients, according to a new
Cochrane Systematic Review. A few small trials
also suggest a wider role for music in recovery from
brain injury.
Music therapists are trained in techniques that
stimulate brain functions and aim to improve
outcomes for patients. One common technique is
rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS), which relies on
the connections between rhythm and movement. Music
of a particular tempo is used to stimulate movement
in the patient.
The review included
seven small studies, which together involved 184
people. Four focused specifically on stroke
patients, with three of these using RAS as the
treatment technique. RAS therapy improved walking
speed by an average of 14 meters per minute compared
to standard movement therapy, and helped patients
take longer steps. In one trial, RAS also improved
arm movements, as measured by elbow extension angle.
“This review shows
encouraging results for the effects of music therapy
in stroke patients,” said lead researcher
Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC, LCAT, of the Arts and
Quality of Life Research Center at Temple
University, Philadelphia. “As most of the studies we
looked at used rhythm-based methods, we suggest that
rhythm may be a primary factor in music therapy
approaches to treating stroke.”
Other music therapy
techniques, including listening to live and recorded
music, were employed to try to improve speech,
behaviour and pain in patients with brain injuries,
and although outcomes in some cases were positive,
evidence was limited.
“Several trials that
we identified had less than 20 participants,” Bradt
said. “It is expected that larger samples sizes will
be used in future studies to enable sound
recommendations for clinical practice.”
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Three-dimensional motion
analysis of the effects of auditory cueing on gait pattern
in patients with Parkinson’s disease: a preliminary
investigation
Alessandro Picelli1, 2, Maruo Camin1,
2, Michele Tinazzi2, 3, Antonella Vangelista2,
4, Alessandro Cosentino4, Antonio Fiaschi2,
5 and Nicola Smania1, 2, 6
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Neuromotor and Cognitive Rehabilitation Research Centre,
University of Verona, Via L.A. Scuro, 10, 37134 Verona,
Italy
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Department of Neurological and Visual Sciences,
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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Neurology Unit, “Maggiore” Hospital, Verona, Italy
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Rehabilitation Unit “C. Santi”, Polyfunctional Centre
Don Calabria, Verona, Italy
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IRCCS, S. Camillo, Venice, Italy
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Rehabilitation Unit, “G.B. Rossi” University Hospital,
Verona, Italy
Received: 10 August 2009 Accepted:20 January 2010 Published
online: 25 February 2010
Abstract
Auditory cueing enhances gait in parkinsonian
patients. Our aim was to evaluate its effects on
spatiotemporal (stride length, stride time, cadence, gait
speed, single and double support duration) kinematic (range
of amplitude of the hip, knee and ankle joint angles
registered in the sagittal plane) and kinetic (maximal
values of the hip and ankle joint power) gait parameters
using three-dimensional motion analysis. Eight parkinsonian
patients performed 12 walking tests: 3 repetitions of 4
conditions (normal walking, 90, 100, and 110% of the mean
cadence at preferred pace cued walking). Subjects were asked
to uniform their cadence to the cueing rhythm. In the
presence of auditory cues stride length, cadence, gait speed
and ratio single/double support duration increased. Range of
motion of the ankle joint decreased and the maximal values
within the pull-off phase of the hip joint power increased.
Thus, auditory cues could improve gait modifying motor
strategy in parkinsonian patients.
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