NEURO-IFRAH® Advanced Function in Upright Postures 

This five day Neuro-IFRAH® Organization approved advanced course is specifically designed for occupational therapists who work with patients affected by stroke or brain injury. Licensed occupational therapy assistants, physical therapists and licensed physical therapy assistants require special permission for acceptance. Also, this course is for participants who have successfully completed the Neuro-IFRAH® Certification Course. This course covers the development and reacquisition of functional control in upright postures for patients at various levels of function including various advanced labs designed to increase mobility and dynamic control throughout the body. This course is authored and designed by Waleed Al-Oboudi who is renowned for his superior and unmatched visionary concepts and highly effective and creative techniques. This course promises to increase clinician’s assessment and management skills as well as introducing concepts that will be unmatched in expanding participant’s perspective of function in upright postures.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

1. Identify Neuro-IFRAH® concepts related to function in upright postures.

2. Identify concepts related to developing an effective well-rounded function in upright postures assessment.

3. Identify missing components interfering with normal function in upright postures on a patient.

4. Develop an effective treatment plan on an actual patient to restore identified missing components interfering with function in upright postures.

5. Demonstrate effective application of management strategies learned to resolve patient’s impairments and improve the function in upright postures.

6. Modify treatment strategies.

7. Demonstrate effective use of tools to grade and enhance effectiveness of results.

8. Integrate concepts related to whole person function in upright postures, walking, the environment, and adaptation.

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be Neuro-IFRAH Advanced Trained®.

Please note that the criteria to be admitted into Neuro-IFRAH® advance courses REQUIRE that the applicants be Neuro-IFRAH Certified® and are using the information learned in the Neuro-IFRAH® Certification Course in the treatment and management of Stroke and Brain Injury patients

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