A Quick Guide to “The 15 Minute Coffee Break Syndrome”
What do you see when you look at someone’s face? Is the person happy or sad, angry or confused, surprised or afraid? Sometimes a person may be saying one thing, but his or her face…
Four Stroke Recovery Models to Help Customize Treatment Plans
Stroke recovery is a long process that begins during inpatient care. It is critical that practitioners and researchers understand the recovery process from the perspectives of stroke survivors and their family members who will be…
How to Best Support Family Caregivers of Stroke Survivors
Discharge from the hospital or inpatient rehabilitation facility can be a time of crisis for family caregivers of stroke survivors. These caregivers often do not feel prepared to assume 24/7 responsibility for the patient. As…
Dementia Care: The 6 Stages & Gems
As rehabilitation professionals, we face significant challenges when consulting and providing treatment plans for people living with dementia.After figuring out which abilities our clients have retained and which abilities they’ve lost, we must determine how…
Four Basic Strategies to Improve Hemispatial Neglect
A common problem for people who have a right hemisphere stroke is left-sided unilateral inattention.2 Left unilateral inattention is reduced processing of information from the left side of the body and environment…
Why Therapists Love MedBridge
