Harvard NeuroRehabilitation 2024

Comprehensive Neurorehabilitation Update

Cutting-edge strategies, updates, and best practices for state-of-the-art rehabilitation

Overview

Patients with stroke, SCI, TBI, brain tumors, and functional and degenerative neurological diseases face significant disruption to so many facets of their lives, and clinicians are left with so many treatment dimensions to consider, that rehabilitation is never simple. These challenges are compounded by the fact that rehabilitation approaches are now in a period of rapid expansion. It’s difficult to stay current with, choose, and use the best options for neurorehabilitation—yet this is key to optimizing patient outcomes.

It’s with these challenges in mind that we present NeuroRehabilitation 2024. Many of the country’s most experienced and committed neurorehabilitation experts provide updates and strategies for state-of-the-art clinical interventions. Education is comprehensive and practical. As a participant in the distance learning program, you can rely on this course for:

• Comprehensive updates
• Education to further your expertise in guiding patients to their maximum level of function
• Evidence-based approaches to challenging and complex cases
• Case studies
• Take-home tools
• A learning experience to heighten your success in effectively and efficiently helping your patients gain the skills that will improve their health, function, and quality of life

 

Enhanced and Accelerated Recovery

This program includes important updates, new best practices, and state-of-the-art approaches to enhance and accelerate recovery, including:

• Rehabilitation of memory and executive skills
• Spasticity management
• Psychopharmacologic interventions
• Treatment of pressure ulcers
• Structural and functional neuroimaging
• Early mobilization in the ICU
• Augmentative and alternative communication
• Music therapy
• Approach to the shoulder after stroke
• Lower extremity orthotics
• Musculoskeletal overuse after SCI
• Autonomic dysreflexia

 

Improved Quality of Life

This program includes strategies, best practices, and cutting-edge approaches to help foster quality of life:

• Wellness interventions
• The SCI consumer perspective
• Women’s health in SCI
• Adjusting to the “new normal” after TBI
• Coping and adjustment after SCI
• Pharmacologic treatment of dementia
• Approaches to communication in serious disease

 

Evolving Treatment Options

This program offers attendees the opportunity to learn about the future of treatment options and how and when they will impact patient outcomes:

• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Gamified neurorehabilitation treatments
• Stem cell therapies
• Cryoneurolysis for spasticity
• Neuromodulation therapies
• Brain-computer and brain-spinal interfaces

 

Expanded Understanding of a Wide Range of Neurological Conditions

Through this program, Physicians, NPs, PAs, PTs, OTs, SLPs, and Neuropsychologists can deepen their knowledge and optimize clinical decisions concerning the following neurorehabilitation issues:

• Functional neurologic disorders
• Mild TBI and post-concussion symptoms
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
• Severe TBI and disorders of consciousness
• Treatment of dementia
• Emotional dysregulation and affective processing after TBI
• Domestic violence and TBI
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

 

Optimized for Remote Education

The 2024 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 90 days after the end of the course.