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Dr Ashan Weerakoddy is an APA titled Neurological Physiotherapist with a PhD in Implementation Science in stroke rehab and a Graduate Diploma in Neurological Rehabilitation. Ashan’s PhD focussed on the implementation of Constraint Induced Movement Therapy across seven sites of a Rehabilitation in the Home (RITH) Early Supported Discharge (ESD) service. He talks extensively about the implementation aspects of this large project, what we can learn from his work for any quality improvement initiative, and important aspects of effective CIMT. Ashan now runs his own mobile neuro physio business Cortex Rehab in Perth, Australia. He talks to us about this move along with his passion for community based neuro rehab.
1.31 Career pathway
5.10 Working in the NT
10.10 Falling in love with community work
16.10 PhD inception
24.03 CIMT implementation project
31.26 Methodological rigour vs pragmatism implementing the intervention
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Haseel Bhatt - Parkinson's and Functional Movement Disorders
Saison 3 · Épisode 2
mercredi 16 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:18:08
Haseel Bhatt is a neurological physiotherapist, researcher and adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and completed graduate studies at the Movement Disorders Research and Rehabilitation centre in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada before studying physiotherapy. His primary research focus has been in Functional Movement Disorders and freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease and he now runs his own practice Neurology Rehab in the Durham Region, Ontario.
Haseel regularly posts evidence-based educational content on his Instagram page @parkinsonsphysiotherapy
We cover his unique career pathway, why he developed his social media page, the latest in evidence-based Parkinson’s management including how to assess for targeted intervention. We also discuss the right time and care for FND, anxiety as a cause of freezing of gait, visuo-motor issues in PD and burnout in neuro physio.
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1.45 Career pathway
7.10 Transitioning from research to clinical
13.05 Social media as an allied health professional
18.40 FND - Evidence-based physio on social media, rehab readiness
26.00 Haseel’s approach to explaining FND
29.05 What are we missing in physio for Parkinson’s?
Professor Janice Eng - Stroke rehab, Large translational trials,
Saison 3 · Épisode 1
lundi 11 mai 2026 • Durée 59:07
Professor Janice Eng, OC, is a University Killam Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Colombia Department of Physical Therapy. Janice is currently the co-director of the Centre for Aging SMART at Vancouver Coastal Health. Her work includes the GRASP upper limb program, the FAME fitness and mobility program, robotic exoskeleton research and her most recent Walk n’ Watch multi-site trial. Having published over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, we discuss how her work is focussed on how to effectively and safely deliver high doses of therapy in complex healthcare environments, and make sure it is implemented widely in clinical practice.
20 sec Career Pathway
2min 45 sec Filling the evidence gap in neuro
5min 33sec Managing control groups in clinical trials
8min 54sec Capturing meaningful improvements with outcome measures
13min 28sec Importance of sufficiently funded trials
15min 40sec Success of Janice’s trials changing practice across the world
20min 29sec Resistance from clinicians about repetitive, task-specific & independent practice
24min 28 sec GRASP program
26 55sec FAME program
29.17 sec Walk n’Watch
32.52 Who benefits from feedback on performance, clinicians or patients?
36.00 Avoiding boredom doing reps
39.14 Gender issues in rehab trials
Links & Resources
REACH scale for Everyday Arm-use in the Community and Home extremity
Dr Vivienne Travlos is a Respiratory Physiotherapist at the MND Association of Western Australia and Principal Physio at Breathe Physio. She has a PhD, MSc of (Management of hildhood Disability) a GradCert in university teaching. This episode is all you want to know about neuro respiratory. We chat neuromuscular disorders, respiratory pathophysiology and disease, night respiration, airway clearance, assessment and measurement, intervention according to severity. Also heard answers to listeners questions - evidence base, physio role across the complex disability continuum of care.
2.03 Welcome & Career Pathway
8.59 PhD – Adolescents with NMD physical health & mental wellbeing
12.59 What are neuromuscular disorders? What resp issues occur?
A/Prof Simone Dorsch - Strength training after stroke, Dosage & Intensity, Personalising practise
Saison 2 · Épisode 8
lundi 7 octobre 2024 • Durée 01:10:23
A/Prof Simone Dorsch is a lecturer in neurological physiotherapy at Australian Catholic University in Sydney and a Director at the StrokEd collaboration. Simone holds a Masters of Health Science (Neurological Physiotherapy) and a PhD in increasing strength after stroke from University of Sydney. We spend time talking about strength training after stroke, dose and intensity of practice, courses offered by Stroke Ed including the Upper Limb Stroke Rehab Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) that ran for the first time in June 2024.
There’s chats about empowerment in rehab, the family role, personalising practise and what interventions we should and shouldn’t be using.
0 Intro 23.00 Current roles & career 45.00 MOOC UL stroke rehab 14.45 Stroke Ed courses 17.50 Coaching 21.10 How much to ‘talk’ as a physio 24.20 Empowerment & engagement 29.05 Strength training 32.45 Clinical reasoning framework of TST 35.10 What interventions we should be doing 38.30 Teaching how to practice - how not to scare people off 41.30 Hands-on approaches 44.30 Personalising practise 53.20 Family empowerment 57.10 Definition of Bobath in studies
James McQuillan - Australian Steelers, person with SCI
Saison 2 · Épisode 7
mardi 27 août 2024 • Durée 48:34
We are chatting with James McQuillan one of the Australian Steelers – the Aussie wheelchair rugby team. Not just that but an Australian Steeler who has had an incredible journey from recreational sportsman to national representative in just over 11 months. In this episode James shares his story, the injury that led him to having a SCI, how he came to be part of the Steelers, and all about Wheelchair Rugby as a sport. He also tells us about being an elite sportsman, his SCI rehab journey, nerve & tendon transfer surgeries to get more function in his upper limbs and some tips for working with people with SCI. Enjoy!
Dr Jess Nolan recently completed her PhD on Lateropulsion. Jess is a physio from Perth, Australia. Her credentials include BSc (Physio) - Curtin Uni, Grad Dip (Neuro Rehab) – UWA, member of ANZSO Emerging Stroke Clinician Scientist Committee, and Physio Working Party for the Stroke Foundation Living Guidelines. Jess worked as a senior physio, a physio coordinator of stroke services and is now at Curtin University in a teaching & research role. This episode is all about Jess’ PhD journey and results. Lots of lateropulsion clinical application in this one.
2.00 sec Intro
2.28 Career pathway/Interest in Lateropulsion
8.45 What is lateropulsion? Can it be mild?
13.20 Prevalence
14.05 Outcome Measures
18.29 Verticality
22.38 Assessing SVV – bucket method
23.00 PhD results - LOS needs, ANSNAP LOS predication accuracy, 1 year outcomes
37.10 Unknown pathophysiology of lateropulsion
40.20 Other components of lateropulsion – SPV – graviception, vestib impairment
Dr Emily Ramage - Codesign, World Stroke Emerging Leader, ENAbLE trial
Saison 2 · Épisode 5
lundi 24 juin 2024 • Durée 58:08
This episode is all about codesign. Dr Emily Ramage is a neuro physio & expert in an approach to codesign called Integrated Knowledge Translation. She’s used the methodology through her PhD (codesign of a PA intervention aimed at reducing secondary stroke risk) & in other projects which she speaks about in the episode. Emily's PhD work was piloted as part of the ENAbLE pilot trial involving physical activity AND diet intervention, we heard about it in our episode with Coralie English (season 1 WebsiteApple podcasts)
Emily’s recently been an Allied Health Research Translation lead in Victoria & an Implementation Research Associate for the international AVERT program at the Florey in Melbourne. She’s affiliated with the University of Newcastle, the University of Melbourne & is a member of the Emerging Leader’s Group for the International Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Alliance.
1.47 Introduction
2.05 Career pathway
6.55 Doing a PhD as a mum
11.45 When a PhD is advertised by a researcher team
19.10 End-user collaboration in research
20.20 Emily’s PhD – codesign of PA for secondary stroke risk
25.32 What does codesign mean?
36.00 Power differentials in codesign
39.51 Running IKT workshops – communication; knowledge & language diversity
45.02 Will codesign become a check box?
48.00 World Stroke Organisation Future Leader Program
Dr Julie Vaughan-Graham is an IBITA Basic and Advanced Tutor, holds a Masters degree in neuro rehabilitation and a PhD investigating the clinical reasoning process of expert Bobath physiotherapists. She owns her own clinical practice in Toronto, and developed the online iNeuroRehab training courses. Julie also holds a post-doctoral fellowship and adjunct lecturer position with the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto.
This episode focuses on The Bobath Concept, clinical reasoning and the Model of Bobath Clinical practice which Julie co-developed. It picks up from our previous Bobath episodes with Janet Stevens (season 1) and Dr Kim Jennings (season 2), going deeper, and addressing some of the criticisms of the Bobath concept.
2.00 Introduction
2.41 Career pathway
16.20 PhD findings –
How Bobath instructors problem solve & clinically reason
22.00 Model of Bobath Clinical Practice
26.48 Bobath and the RCT
28.45 Applying the Bobath concept – Hemiplegic UL example
36.47 Using sensory cues in Bobath
43.38 Using the Bobath Concept is a skill to develop
47.25 Neuroscience & Bobath
53.50 Movement diagnosis & hypotheses
57.53 Discrete interventions vs Bobath Concept (a framework of intervention)
Dr Sarah Milne - Friedreich's Ataxia & the cerebellum
Saison 2 · Épisode 4
lundi 29 avril 2024 • Durée 46:06
This month we are chatting with Dr. Sarah Milne from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute who is also the Coordinator of the Friedreich's Ataxia Clinic at Monash Health in Melbourne, Australia. Sarah is an expert in hereditary cerebellar ataxias and after completing her PhD in 2018 she is trying to bolster the evidence base about the right rehab for people with Friedreich’s Ataxia.
This episode will appeal to people treating Friedreich’s Ataxia or any of the inherited cerebellar ataxias, and to anyone who sees people with cerebellar pathology. Also of interest are the chats about challenges of rehabilitation research. The audio quality in this episode isn’t up to our usual standard with a lot of static happening – sorry!
2.01 Intro & career pathway
4.38 Friedreich’s ataxia
7.00 How is Friedreich’s ataxia different to the hereditary cerebellar ataxias?
8.36 Phenotypes in neurological conditions and the RCT paradigm
11.20 PhD results
15.02 State of the Friedreich’s ataxia evidence
16.49 Ataxia outcome measures
20.03 Ataxia assessment
24.25 Compensation vs optimal cerebellar functioning
27.00 What can imaging tell us about cerebellar conditions?
29.55 Treatment
36.16 Efficacy vs Effectiveness, challenges of rehab trials
39.23 Aquatic physio for this population
41.43 Episode reflection
Links Research Gate PhD - 4 studies – Pilot rehabilitation trial for people with Friedreich’s Ataxia. Clinical audit of LL spasticity relationship with ataxia severity & function. Sensitivity of balance, gait measures and instrumented measures of gait & balance change over time.
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Like our podcast and want to support us? Share the show with your friends & colleagues, give us a rating on your podcast platform or Buy us a coffee. Matt & Erin run the podcast out of their own time and resources. We'd love to update our recording equipment & cover our podcast publishing costs. Buy us a coffee if you can.
Like our podcast and want to support us? Share the show with your friends & colleagues, give us a rating on your podcast platform or Buy us a coffee. Matt & Erin run the podcast out of their own time and resources. We'd love to update our recording equipment & cover our podcast publishing costs. Buy us a coffee if you can.
Like our podcast and want to support us? Share the show with your friends & colleagues, give us a rating on your podcast platform or Buy us a coffee. Matt & Erin run the podcast out of their own time and resources. We'd love to update our recording equipment & cover our podcast publishing costs. Buy us a coffee if you can.
Like our podcast and want to support us? Share the show with your friends & colleagues, give us a rating on your podcast platform or Buy us a coffee. Matt & Erin run the podcast out of their own time and resources. We'd love to update our recording equipment & cover our podcast publishing costs. Buy us a coffee if you can.
Like our podcast and want to support us? Share the show with your friends & colleagues, give us a rating on your podcast platform or Buy us a coffee. Matt & Erin run the podcast out of their own time and resources. We'd love to update our recording equipment & cover our podcast publishing costs. Buy us a coffee if you can.
Like our podcast and want to support us? Share the show with your friends & colleagues, give us a rating on your podcast platform or Buy us a coffee. Matt & Erin run the podcast out of their own time and resources. We'd love to update our recording equipment & cover our podcast publishing costs. Buy us a coffee if you can.
Like our podcast and want to support us? Share the show with your friends & colleagues, give us a rating on your podcast platform or Buy us a coffee. Matt & Erin run the podcast out of their own time and resources. We'd love to update our recording equipment & cover our podcast publishing costs. Buy us a coffee if you can.
Like our podcast and want to support us? Share the show with your friends & colleagues, give us a rating on your podcast platform or Buy us a coffee. Matt & Erin run the podcast out of their own time and resources. We'd love to update our recording equipment & cover our podcast publishing costs. Buy us a coffee if you can.
Like our podcast and want to support us? Share the show with your friends & colleagues, give us a rating on your podcast platform or Buy us a coffee. Matt & Erin run the podcast out of their own time and resources. We'd love to update our recording equipment & cover our podcast publishing costs. Buy us a coffee if you can.
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