Neuroplasticity for Orthopedic Recovery and Pain Relief: How Injury Changes the Brain and How You Can Help Rewire It – Karen Pryor

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Neuroplasticity is one of the most important concepts when it comes to recovery, but is often overlooked when treating traumatic injuries. From traumatic injuries and post-op conditions to stroke, this course will deliver new thoughts on how to detour around damage and incorporate viable nervous system connections for faster, more complete recovery.

It’s never too late. The brain is not hard wired. It can change and adapt, even decades after the initial injury.

Drawing on over 40 years of clinical experience, Dr. Pryor will teach you practical, evidence-based techniques and interventions to stimulate the brain and enhance recovery.

• Evaluate the nervous system for damage and functional pathways
• Address tone abnormalities, vision and how they are intimately related and treatable
• Advance patient function with guided neurological reconnection
• Improve balance and visuospatial function to enhance client independence and feelings of safety
• Create actionable treatment plans to help at home
• Reclaim movement and quality of life

You will learn practical and useful techniques that can be implemented immediately within your practice. These evidence-based interventions will apply across the spectrum from initial injury to recovery.

Purchase today! You can’t afford to miss out on this chance to get the skills, techniques and knowledge you can use to promote neuroplasticity and increased function for your patients!

1. Assess the multilayer approach using neuroanatomy and brain function related to injuries.
2. Analyze the relationship between orthopedic trauma and brain dysfunction.
3. Differentiate approaches to changing low and high tone qualities.
4. Evaluate central nervous system dysfunction, and why practice makes pathways, and how to increase compliance in home programs.
5. Evaluate tremors, eye alignment and nystagmus.
6. Appraise and appreciate the importance of positive treatment sessions and verbal cues.
7. Evaluate strategies to incorporate techniques into home programs for patients and caregivers.

Improve Your Clinical Reasoning

• Central nervous system: the driver of ALL function
• Neuroanatomy
• Brain development
• Chronic pain: the nervous system remembers
• Feedback loops – pain is circular

Upgrade Your Clinical Assessment

• Neurological screens for injuries
• Identifying neurological challenges
• Primitive reflex patterns and the power of vision
• Sensory motor development
• Vision and hearing related deficits
• Sensation changes and reintegration

Integrate Neuroplasticity into Your Therapy Program

• Practice Makes NEW Pathways
• Polyvagal theory: Fight, Flight and Freeze
• Trauma memory related to therapy sessions
• Crucial component: sensory stimulation
• Smooth movement tremors and distraction
• Changing low and high tone qualities
• Challenge equates to change
• Bracing: to be or not to be

Design Effective Treatment Plans: Treat the Symptom, the Cause and Neurological Changes

• Where to rewire the brain
• Use it or lose it
• Recruitment and retraining
• Use the lobes next door
• Before/after videos of sensory stimulation
• Beware of learned non-use

Expand Your Reach: Incorporate Vision

• The link between vision and balance and sensation
• Implications for neurological disorders:
  • Stroke, TBI, concussion
• 3D vision impairments – depth perception and safety
• Practical strategies for vision on the move!

Taking it Home: Patients and Caregivers

• PT phone home – game changing HEP strategies to increase compliance
• Repetition and novelty are key
• Simple and effective activities to send home
• Explaining complex concepts to patients

Case Studies:

• MVA with TBI
• Fall with knee injury and acute pain
• Low back pain – disc herniation with acute unrelenting pain
• Neurological signs post fall
• TKA acute pain and edema with resolution of pain and edema 2 treatments
• Anoxic injury – signs, symptoms and solutions