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Stroke Rehabilitation: Evidence-Based Update
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Course Description
Stroke rehabilitation is complex, time-sensitive, and constantly evolving—this evidence-based update equips clinicians to deliver best-practice care from acute hospitalization through community reintegration. Using research syntheses and clinical practice guideline updates (2022–2025), the course differentiates acute, subacute, and chronic-phase protocols for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, including safe mobilization timing and therapy “dosing.”
Learners will strengthen clinical decision-making for post-acute setting selection (IRF, SNF, home-based care, outpatient, and telerehab) and apply standardized outcome measures to guide transitions and document progress. The course also provides practical, evidence-driven exercise programming across task-specific training, aerobic conditioning (including HIIT considerations), resistance training (including blood flow restriction), balance training, and fall prevention. Emerging technologies—robotics, virtual reality, TMS/tDCS, and vagus nerve stimulation—are reviewed with clear guidance for patient selection and clinical integration. Cognitive impairment, depression/anxiety, and aphasia management are addressed as essential drivers of functional outcomes, and real-world case studies tie everything together with an emphasis on implementation barriers and health equity.
Stroke Rehabilitation: Evidence-Based Update
Additional Course Details
0:00 - Introduction
2:37 - Learning Objectives
4:01 - Module 1: Phase-Specific Rehabilitation Protocols
22:01 - Module 2: Rehabilitation Setting Selection
38:00 - Module 3: Exercise-Based Interventions
56:17 - Module 4: Emerging Rehabilitation Technologies
87:26 - Module 6: Implementation Barriers and Health Equity
96:30 - Module 7: Integrative Case Studies
97:40 - Case Study 1
107:57 - Case Study 2
118:49 - Conclusion
126:35 - End
- Differentiate acute, subacute, and chronic phase protocols by timing, intensity, and interventions for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.
- Evaluate patient factors (severity, cognition, comorbidities, support) to determine appropriate rehabilitation settings across recovery phases.
- Compare exercise interventions (task-specific, aerobic, resistance, balance) for optimizing motor recovery at different phases.
- Analyze evidence for emerging technologies (robotics, VR, TMS, VNS) to identify appropriate candidates and applications.
- Interpret screening tools for depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairment, and identify evidence-based communication rehabilitation approaches.
- Analyze implementation barriers across practice settings and identify strategies to promote health equity in rehabilitation.
- Select outcome measures, interventions, and follow-up intervals through comprehensive case analysis, integrating all modules.
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Anne Osborn, PT, MPT is the member manager of Ridley Learning. She receives compensation for the authorship of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.
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