By Todd J Levy, MS, OTR/L, CBIST-APThe internet provides vast information about rehabilitation for children. Like most topics, information ranges from reliable and useful to nonsense and dishonest. Professionals can turn to peer-reviewed journal articles for vetted...
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Reflections on the first IPSO Virtual Conference
By Grégoire Boulouis, Peter Sporns and Jenny Wilson. IPSO had its first conference July 19-21, 2021 after COVID-19 obliterated plans for an in-person conference in 2020 in Vienna, Austria. While there was a feeling of disappointment in not being able to meet in...
Do you want to build a stroke team? Come on let’s go and play!
The first International Pediatric Stroke Expert Corner took place on Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 at 10am PST/ 12pm CST/ 1pm EST/ 7pm GMT +2Speaker BioDr. Nihal Bakeer, MD is a pediatric hematologist at the Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center located in Indianapolis,...
Embolectomy Case & Pediatric Stroke Rehab Case
The second International Pediatric Stroke Challenging Case Conference took place on Tuesday, November 17th at 11am PST/ 1pm CST/ 2pm EST/ 8pm EUR.SpeakersSahar M. Hassanein, MD Sahar M. Hassanein, MD is a pediatric neurologist at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt....
American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Annual Conference- An important educational and research platform for pediatric stroke rehabilitation.
By Todd Levy.The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) is the largest organization for rehabilitation research in the United States and includes many nations. Its’ mission is to improve lives through interdisciplinary rehabilitation research. Its’...
Can we stimulate neuroplasticity to enhance recovery in children with stroke?
By Adam Kirton. There is a general assumption that the developing brain is more plastic. While supported by scientific evidence dating back nearly 100 years, the mechanisms remain poorly understood. It is certainly true that children with strokes are different in many...
Investigating Outcome Prediction and Rehabilitation from childhood stroke via the use of EEG brain connectivity assessments
| In Development | Observational | Single Site | Kartik Iyer, Michaela Waak & Karen Barlow | Predicting clinical recovery in childhood stroke is highly challenging due to the complex nature of injury. Outcomes in these children remain unclear until months after...
Perinatal Arterial Stroke: A Multi-site RCT of Intensive Infant Rehabilitation (I-ACQUIRE)
| Enrolling | Clinical Trial | Multi-site | StrokeNet NIH | Sharon L. Ramey & Warren Lo | This is a Phase III clinical trial to compare the efficacy of two dosages of a new infant rehabilitation protocol - I-ACQUIRE - to usual and customary forms of infant...
Rehabilitation Early for Congenital Hemiplegia
|Enrolling |Clinical Trial | Multi-Site |Professor Roslyn Boyd | The REACH multisite assessor masked randomized Comparison trial directly compares an equal dose of infant modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (Baby CIMT) with infant modified Bimanual upper limb...
Rehabilitation Early for Congenital Hemiplegia
|Enrolling |Clinical Trial | Multi-Site |Professor Roslyn Boyd | The REACH multisite assessor masked randomized Comparison trial directly compares an equal dose of infant modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (Baby CIMT) with infant modified Bimanual upper limb...