Facilitate Motor Skill Learning in Pediatric, Adult, & Geriatric Patients
As a rehabilitation specialist, you are frequently faced with the challenge of how to best teach motor skills to your patients. Not only must you tailor your approach to the age of the patient, but in today’s healthcare environment you must also be adept at structuring the learning environment to promote the quickest and longest lasting changes.
Dr. Ben Sidaway helps you meet these challenges with the latest theoretical and applied perspectives in the field of motor control and learning and their implications for therapeutic evaluation and treatment. He will compare and contrast information processing and dynamic systems models in understanding normal and pathological human motor behavior, and help you see the treatment path that arises from both approaches. You will also get the opportunity to honestly critique current assumptions underlying motor control rehabilitation and discuss how theoretical frameworks can bias evaluation and treatment options. From here, you will go through the necessary steps to design your own unique treatment approaches to optimize functional outcomes in each patient.
What You Will Learn:
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| Slide Deck | Course PowerPoint_Advances in Motor Control and Learning for Neurological Rehab (15.48 MB) | Available after Purchase | |
| Course Manual_Advances in Motor Control and Learning for Neurological Rehab (8.50 MB) | Available after Purchase |
BEN SIDAWAY, BSc, MA, PhD, MPT, is a professor of physical therapy at Husson College in Maine where he teaches motor control and learning, anatomy, neuroscience and research methods. He also operates his own home health rehabilitation practice and is the Director of the Kenduskeag Institute’s Human Performance Lab. Dr. Sidaway has practiced in neurologic, orthopedic, pediatric and geriatric settings. Prior to teaching at Husson College, Dr. Sidaway was a professor of motor control and learning at Louisiana State University where he received two Outstanding Teacher awards. Dr. Sidaway is originally from England where he earned a BSc in kinesiology at Loughborough University of Technology. He undertook postgraduate work in physical habilitation at Liverpool University and later earned an MA in motor behavior and biomechanics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a PhD from Penn State University in motor learning and control and an MPT from Husson College.
Dr. Sidaway has an extensive research background in motor control and learning with over 100 published papers and abstracts in national and international peer-reviewed journals. He regularly presents at scientific conferences and has made numerous invited presentations in the U.S. and Great Britain. Dr. Sidaway has previously served as the associate editor of the international journal Human Movement Science and regularly reviews for other journals, including Physical Therapy, the official journal of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.
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