Today we talk to one of our mentors, Valerie Carter, about her experience as a neuro PT who had the unique opportunity to study the effects of exercise on people with Parkinson’s by helping her mom live very well for 30 years with PD. Valerie became really interested in utilizing the most...
Woo hoo we made it to 100 episodes! Patting ourselves on the back for releasing an episode every week no matter what. In today’s show we share with you the highlights of the I Love Neuro podcast: Our top 10 most downloaded episodes. If you haven’t listened to these, I highly...
Ever feel intimidated by adding dual task activities to your therapy sessions? Are there times you’re not sure where to start with your clients? Maybe you don’t want to make it too easy or too difficult, and sometimes you’re not really sure if what you’re doing actually...
A topic too big for 1 podcast episode! On today’s show we interviewed Kaylie Zapanta, MS CSCS. Kaylie is a PhD candidate at USC who started out as a trainer and realized she was bit by the research bug. Initially she was passionate about studying muscles in athletes until she expanded her...
Today we have a conversation with fellow Sparky, Lauren Sheehan, an OT who worked for 10+ years in neuro rehab and 5 years ago made the switch to the medical device industry. Lauren became intrigued with rehab tech while working with a patient who was using it and hasn’t turned back since!...
We as healthcare workers undervalue ourselves, our work, and we struggle to ask for enough money. We want everyone to have everything for free but we don’t want to make sure we get paid to cover what we are doing. This episode was inspired by conversations with Sparkies needing a little...
Wins!! How often do you focus on the wins you get with your patients and clients? It is so natural for us to focus on the negative and the drudgery, but what if you spent a little time each day to focus on the wins you had or heard about that day? Get a dose of the feel goods as we share why...
Ever have a tough patient case? Ever have someone come to you asking for help on a tough patient case? How do you handle it? What are your thoughts? A lot of us may not feel like we are “expert enough” and it is tough. On today’s episode, we provide our solution to working on...
In today’s show we talk about something we are seeing more and more these days… healthcare worker burnout. This goes beyond feeling tired and irritated because we all feel that from time to time. In the show today we talk about what burnout looks like and feels like and what you can...
We welcome Emily Borchers, PT lead for Rogue In Motion to the show to talk about back pain and posture in PD today. This topic was January’s education topic in the Parkinson’s Focus Track inside NeuroSpark. It was a great discussion inside the program and brought up a lot of...
Do you know how to specifically describe different effort zones to your clients? Do you know the “zones” that indicate when a person is getting the most brain benefit? In today’s show we discuss Rogue’s custom Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) Chart! Claire will share...
In this episode we share our wins and challenges from both NeuroCollaborative and Rogue from 2021. What we achieved and what we are looking forward to in 2022. Each year brings new lessons and opportunities. We also share a really helpful resource for reflecting on the year and setting goals...
