A Team Approach to Head & Neck Cancer Recovery
A Team Approach to Head & Neck Cancer Recovery Over a decade ago, when I was a newer “green” speech-language pathologist at a Michigan-based hospital system, I learned about our head and neck cancer tumor board meetings and was invited to sit in for observation. When the meeting was wrapping up, I was introduced to […]
Dual-Task Training in Neuro Rehab: How Therapists Rebuild Everyday Multitasking
Try patting your head while rubbing your stomach. That awkward feeling is dual-tasking, and we do it constantly without noticing: walking while talking, cooking while reading directions, or carrying items while watching where we step. After a neurological event, tasks that used to happen automatically start demanding full attention. Dual-task training is how therapists rebuild […]
Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: What Recovery Looks Like Beyond the Hospital
Spinal cord injury rehabilitation in an outpatient setting is where much of the long-term work happens, and it looks different from the hospital phase in pace, goals, and intensity. Learn what an outpatient program includes, how often therapy takes place, which technologies are used, and what happens when formal therapy ends.
High-Intensity Gait Training: The Evidence Behind Walking Recovery
High-intensity gait training is more demanding than most people expect therapy to be, and that is the point. It asks people to take many steps at an effort level that genuinely raises their heart rate. It is one of the better-evidenced approaches in neurological rehabilitation. Learn what high-intensity gait training involves, how hard it needs to be, who benefits, and how therapists build the challenge safely.
Neurological Physical Therapy: A Complete Guide to Recovery After Brain and Spinal Injury
After a stroke, a spinal cord injury, or a diagnosis such as multiple sclerosis, most people leave the hospital with a folder of paperwork and very little idea of what happens next. Neurological physical therapy is built for that moment. It focuses on rebuilding movement, balance, and independence after nervous system injury, and it works […]
Parkinson’s Physical Therapy: Exercise Protocols That Help Protect Mobility
Medication remains the foundation of Parkinson’s treatment, and exercise works alongside it rather than in place of it. What has changed is how seriously exercise is now taken. Parkinson’s physical therapy uses structured, high effort movement to protect function, and the evidence behind it is strong enough that it is treated as part of care […]
Physical Therapy After Stroke: What to Expect in the First Year and Beyond
The weeks after a stroke move quickly, and then they stop. Inpatient care ends, home health finishes, and many survivors are left wondering whether this is as good as it gets. Physical therapy after stroke is what continues from that point, and it is often where the most meaningful gains in walking, arm use, and […]