We are thrilled to announce that our NeuroRehab app has been revised and updated! This update provides contemporary teaching and learning resources in neurologic rehabilitation and enhances the user experience. 

Partnership to deliver world-class Parkinson’s disease treatment methodology (LSVT BIG®)

We are pleased to partner with Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) Global to provide an introduction to LSVT BIG®, an intensive, amplitude-focused treatment for people with Parkinson’s disease and other adult and pediatric neurological conditions. LSVT BIG® treatment is backed by over 25 years of extensive research and is used by over 40,000 physical and occupational therapists around the world who are certified in the LSVT BIG® method. Within the Evidence-Based Practice Resources section of the NeuroRehab app:

• Access four educational modules introducing the LSVT BIG® treatment approach 

• Interact with an LSVT-specific case study

• Within the case study, watch videos of LSVT BIG® exercise and functional task examples

For more information about LSVT BIG® treatment or LSVT BIG® certification for students and therapists, visit LSVTGlobal.com.

Expanded Interventions Library

We’ve added an even larger library of interventions including several new categories shown here:

• Bed Mobility

• Balance and Stability Training

• Coordination Training

• External Cueing

• Gait

• High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

• Muscle Strengthening

• Manual Therapy

• Transfers

• Task-Specific Training

• Vestibular Training

MORE Real-Life Patient Examples

We’ve filmed more real-life patients with various neurologic diagnoses, including:

• Multiple sclerosis (MS)

• Parkinson’s disease (PD)

• Spina bifida

• Spinal cord injury (SCI)

• Stroke (both Pontine and middle cerebral artery)

• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Seated Postural Control

Standing Balance with Harness

Box Jumps

Cup Stacking

Visual Improvements 

We’ve changed the video background from black to white for better clarity. We also removed text overlays on the videos, allowing learners to focus on the intervention techniques. Detailed information and cues are now provided below each video.

These updates are designed to provide a richer, more engaging learning experience for both educators and students. Explore the revamped NeuroRehab app today and elevate your teaching!

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Are you an educator seeking to enrich your curriculum and provide your students with real-life clinical experiences?

We are thrilled to introduce the Neurologic Case Studies app, an innovative tool designed to elevate your teaching and deepen your students' understanding of neurological conditions.

Explore the Neurologic Case Studies App

The Neurologic Case Studies app is an extensive collection of videos featuring real neurologic patients performing various functional and occupational tasks. This invaluable resource allows you to organize information by diagnosis, impairment, or outcome measure, facilitating easy navigation and comparison of different patients' conditions and treatments.

This app highlights an interdisciplinary approach to patient care, featuring Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Language Pathology clinicians working together to treat real patients. By synthesizing clinical information related to patients with neurological impairments, this resource provides your students with a comprehensive view of patient care.

Develop Clinical Reasoning with Customizable Worksheets

The app also includes a downloadable and fully customizable Subjective Examination Clinical Reasoning Worksheet and an Objective Examination Clinical Reasoning Worksheet. These tools are designed to enhance your students' critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills by guiding them through detailed patient assessments and treatment planning.

Bring Real-World Clinical Scenarios into Your Classroom

The Neurologic Case Studies app allows you to bring the complexity of real-world clinical scenarios into your classroom. By incorporating videos of real patients, you can offer your students valuable insights into the challenges and intricacies of treating neurological conditions. This app serves as a bridge between theory and practice, preparing your students for their future roles as occupational therapists.

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING > DRESSING: ANOXIC BRAIN INJURY

A video showing a patient putting on and taking off their shoes independently.

INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING > COOKING: RIGHT MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY (MCA) STROKE

A video showing a patient preparing a bowl of cereal.

FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY > BED MOBILITY: PARKINSON'S DISEASE

A video showing a patient transitioning from sitting at the edge of the mat to lying on their side, to prone, to lying on their right side, and back again to sitting at the edge of the mat independently.

FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY > GAIT: MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

A video showing a patient backwards stepping and forward stepping.

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App Authors and Contributors - Thank You!

Grace Peek, MSOT, OTR/L

• Occupational Therapist at Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare

• Ms. Peek is the head occupational therapist managing clients, providing evaluations, treatment plans, and therapy for vision, ADLs, IADLs, pain, community integration, mental health, and more.

Kristen Moore, PT, DPT

• E-Learning Lead & Simulation Design Manager (OTu) 

• Dr. Moore specializes in treating neurologic injuries, professional education, and developing e-learning and simulation modules to improve classroom learning. She has extensive experience treating in interprofessional teams, emphasizing community integration with neurologic patient populations.

Mary Hudson-McKinney, PT, DPT, NCS

• Professor at Western University of Health Sciences

• With a variety of experience and board certification in neurology, Dr. Hudson-McKinney is an educator, serves on the National MS Society Professional Board, and researches novel exercise programs, fall prevention, and interprofessional education.

Sarah Green, MA, CCC-SLP, CBIS

• Speech Language Pathologist at Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare

Sheila Krajnik, EdD, OTR/L

• Education Lead (OTu)

• Dr. Krajnik, with extensive clinical and academic expertise in adult neurology and gerontology, has held various administrative and specialist roles, contributed to research and advocacy, and excelled in educating future practitioners.

Tracy Moore, PT, DPT, ONC

• Product and Education Manager (OTu)

• Dr. Moore, a clinician, educational leader, and a board-certified Oncology Clinical Specialist, teaches oncology, cardiopulmonary, and clinical skills, and has published research regarding chronic pain, simulations in education, and interprofessional patient care.

Hi Everyone, It’s Mike from OTu,

We are excited to announce a big new update to the NeuroRehab app, authored by Dr. Sara Kraft and created in Partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina.

In this new update, all intervention videos have been carefully reorganized by impairments or functional movements to improve searchability while improving usability in the clinic and the classroom.

A full examination of a neuro patient has been converted into an interactive learning experience, guiding students and new clinicians through the thought process of an expert during the evaluation session. This experience includes formative feedback and interactive quizzing to help develop clinical reasoning. These e-learning modules allow for score reporting and tracking of time spent in each module

Case studies built on clinic-based patient videos have been created to enhance clinical reasoning development and to create opportunities to engage students in context-rich learning environments. These cases include clients in the following categories:

• Stroke

• Spinal cord injury

• Traumatic brain injury

• Parkinson’s disease

• Wheelchair- Evaluation and intervention

The NeuroRehab app also includes a centralized hub for available online resources and websites to facilitate clinician and student access to enhance evidence-based clinical practice.

The next generation of learning in Neurological Rehabilitation. Brought to you by the team at OTu!

Curious about what exercises are the BEST exercises for your patients?

When using Exercise Patterns, we guarantee an evidence-based exercise approach that allows you to save time when building patient programs, address specific concerns with specific exercises, and create programs for exclusive patient needs.

Once in the Exercise Patterns web app, you will notice we have all exercises categorized by:

• Body Region

  • Once in a specific body region, you will be able to navigate further to address unique patient needs:

    • Musculoskeletal Patterns

    • Post-Operative Programs

    • Performance

Easy, Effective, and Efficient

Did you know you can also email your program directly to your patients through our app?