It's been a while coming, but I've just had the first paper from my PhD published.
When doing research, you're always hoping that what you publish will have immediate benefit for clinicians and health services to use in their own practice. I hope this paper does just that.
As many of you know, I'm passionate about constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) in how it can help people regain the use of their arm after stroke. One problem is that it's quite complex for physiotherapists and occupational therapists to deliver, which means stroke survivors miss out on this effective therapy when clinicians don't know where to start.
In this paper, we go through the step-by-step process that we used to implement CIMT in a large, publicly-funded, home-based rehab service and discuss our learnings (including mistakes) along the way. We hope that this paper will provide guidance for physios, OTs and rehab services in their journey to make CIMT standard practice in stroke rehabilitation.
We've published this in the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal and it's available Open Access, which means it's free for all to read and/or download. We've also included a range of resources as supplemental files.
Go forth and read, feel free to give me a DM or comment on X (@AshanNeuroPT) or LinkedIn (Ashan Weerakkody) if you want to give any feedback or tell me what you thought.
At Cortex Neuro Rehab, we are passionate about provided evidence-based practice and high quality rehabilitation. We know the research, we apply the research and our clients benefit.
If you're looking for community-based neurological rehabilitation across the northern suburbs of Perth, feel free to get in touch with Ashan Weerakkody.
Happy reading,
Ashan
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