StrokeEd Lecture: Implementing mental practice to help elicit upper limb motor recovery post-stroke

Title: Implementing mental practice to help elicit upper limb motor recovery post-stroke

Dan Eaves, Rachel Stockley and Sarah Moore will deliver their popular workshop presentation from the UK Stroke Forum, Birmingham, England.  Learn how to create and deliver your own mental practice session, that is immersive and realistic for a stroke survivor, with a simple co-created layered script. An evidence-based intervention that can be used instead of hand splinting and Bobath therapy to elicit movement in the hand and arm.

Learning objectives:

After this session participants will:

1. Be able to summarise the current evidence for mental practice for the recovery of the upper limb after stroke
2. Apply skills and knowledge about how to implement mental practice in their clinical setting
3. Understand how to use a framework to consider the key components of a mental practice script and begin to develop a mental practice scripts for their setting

Presenters:  

Dr Daniel Eaves (He/him), Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science (Biomechanics), Newcastle University, UK

As an academic at Newcastle University, Daniel studies the processes underlying human movement. He is particularly interested in the interplay between perception and action, across the disciplines of Sport and Exercise, Rehabilitation, Psychology, and Neuroscience. For over a decade, Daniel has investigated the effects of mental practice on human movement using behavioural and neurophysiological measures, with around 20 publications on this topic. Daniel is one of four academics who co-lead the Research in Imagery and Observation (RIO) Group. Please check out the RIO Group online: https://riogroup.weebly.com.

Dr Rachel C Stockley PhD MSc BSc FHEA, (She/Her), Physiotherapist & Associate Professor in Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Rachel is an experienced neurological physiotherapist and researcher. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, where her work focusses on researching rehabilitation after stroke. She currently leads a programme of work examining digital health technologies in upper limb rehabilitation, spanning the life cycle of technology from design, development, evaluation and implementation. She has been involved in a range of studies of technologies and rehabilitation nationally and internationally, including trials of virtual reality, applications and wearable technologies.

Ass/Prof Sarah Moore, BSc (Hons), PhD, PGCAP, Associate Professor Northumbria University, Honorary Highly Specialist Physiotherapist Northumbria Healthcare, Associate Clinical Researcher, Stroke Research Group, Newcastle University

Sarah is an experienced neurological physiotherapist and researcher. She is an Associate Professor at Northumbria University in the UK, where her work focusses on researching rehabilitation after stroke. She currently leads a programme of work examining daily activity and behaviour change after stroke and the implementation of complex interventions into stroke rehabilitation.

Date and Time: Thu 29th February 2024, 6.00-7.00PM AEDT

* London/ UK/ Ireland BST = 7am / Copenhagen = 8am / Brisbane = 5pm / Perth = 3pm / Adelaide = 5.30pm / Auckland = 8pm / Singapore = 3pm / Ottawa = 2am

Cost: Free:

Online format: This presentation will be delivered as a Zoom Webinar. Registrants will receive an email several days before the event, with a personal link associated with their email address.  The lecture will be attended by up to 500 registrants, and will also be recorded and made available free via the StrokeEd “Resources’ library.