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Stroke Ed Collaboration
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The StrokeEd collaboration is an Australian education provider. We offer evidence-based workshops and lectures to improve the skills, knowledge and practice of rehabilitation therapists, and influence the delivery of rehab to stroke survivors.
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The Advanced Rehab Centre is running an online course on sensation and its role in neurorehabilitation. There are 8 modules, including 3 live and 5 pre-recorded sessions.

StrokeEd director Annie McCluskey has registered for this interesting learning opportunity. Visit their website to register.
August 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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The StrokeEd directors have been meeting to plan the 2026 teaching calendar. What would you like to see more of in 2026?
August 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Handwriting evaluation task ✍️
Can you identify the impairments? What treatment options would you use? Patient’s goals: improve pen control, legibility and neatness.

Watch the full lecture on adult handwriting on the StrokeEd website in the resource collection: strokeed.com/adult-handwr...
August 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Understanding trunk biomechanics is critical for effective assessment and intervention in patients with neurological conditions. In this lecture Karl presents an overview of trunk muscle anatomy, biomechanics and their role in function.

Full lecture here: strokeed.com/understandin...
Understanding the trunk - StrokeEd
This lecture presents the biomechanics of the trunk, anatomy and function of the trunk muscles, and the role of muscles acting on the trunk in tasks such as sitting and standing. While stroke and spin...
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August 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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There are still vacancies for StrokeEd's upcoming online coaching workshop.

Details: August 7th and 21st 6.00pm - 10pm (Sydney time)
Registration/Info: strokeed.com/event/the-co...
July 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Sneak peek of the walking workshop biomechanics pre-work presented by Karl and Simone. StrokeEd's upcoming online walking workshop still has availability.

🔗 Register via strokeed.com/event/analys...

#StrokeRehabilitation #NeuroPhysio #EvidenceBasedPractice #StrokeEd #GaitTraining
July 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Simone and Karl examine common challenges associated with e-stim and provide guidance on how to effectively address them. It may be helpful to review these key factors:

1. Skin contact
2. Electrode placement
3. Pulse width settings
4. Channel selection
5. Integrity of leads

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E Stim Troubleshooting
YouTube video by Stroke Ed
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June 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Karl's step by step guide to making a shoulder protraction cylinder. This device can be used to train weak shoulder protractor muscles. Full video can be found in the StrokeEd MOOC materials.

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June 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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StrokeEd's balance workshop provides an evidence based approach to rehabilitation for people with balance impairments from older age and/or neurological impairment

- 16th-17th Aug '25
- Artarmon, Sydney
- Presented by Dr Simone Dorsch & Zheng Cao

Sign up/learn more: strokeed.com/event/the-ba...
June 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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In the 2024 MOOC, participants had the opportunity to ask Annie, Karl and Simone questions.

If you are already registered to our 2025 MOOC, start thinking of your questions to submit to the Q&A session.

Link to sign up now: strokeed.com/course/analy...

#strokerecovery #strokerehabilitation
June 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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The 2025 MOOC has almost 3000 participants from 66 countries. The MOOC is available in 6 languages with written and recorded content available with translations from English into: Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese (Brazilian), Arabic, Spanish and French

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June 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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If you are uncertain about what to expect from the 2025 MOOC on the Analysis and Training of Upper Limb Function After Stroke, we invite you to read the feedback below from a participant in the 2024 course.
June 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Participants from the 2024 UL MOOC felt more confident with task analysis and identifying compensations, exercise prescription, evidence based practice and semi-supervised training.

Sign up via strokeed.com/course/analy...
May 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Did you know the 2025 MOOC is available in 5 languages? All course content will be available in English, Portuguese, Arabic, French, Chinese & Spanish.

Share with your international physiotherapy colleagues and register online now at strokeed.com/course/analy...
May 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Registrations are now open for the 2025 UL MOOC: analysis and retraining of UL function after stroke.

You can register via the link: strokeed.com/course/analy...

Visit the StrokeEd website to find out more information.
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May 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Changing practice is difficult. Read examples of practice changes reported by clinicians who attended a face to face balance workshop last year.

We'd appreciate hearing examples of how people have changed their practice in accordance with evidence.
#strokerehabilitation #strokeeducation
April 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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2025 MOOC - Analysis and retraining of UL function after stroke.

✅ We supply a MOOC certificate of completion which will state that it is 15 hours of continuous professional development.

Register: strokeed.com/mooc/ from 5th May

#strokerecovery #strokeeducation #strokerehabilitation
April 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Two weeks until registrations open for the 2025 MOOC: Analysis and retraining of UL function after stroke.
Register via the StrokeEd website: strokeed.com/mooc/ from the 5th May

Please share with your colleagues and networks, we look forward to seeing you online for the 2025 StrokeEd MOOC 😃
April 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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In our 2024 MOOC live Q&A session, we answered therapists' questions on all topics, big and small. Here’s Karl’s response to a question on passive movements.

Our 2025 MOOC registration opens on 5th of May 2025, so mark your calendars!

#strokerehabilitation #strokeeducation #strokerecovery
April 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Five years ago we aimed to run 20-25 workshops/year. Now we're running up to 39 a year!
We've continued to contribute to the evidence base in stroke rehab with up to 13 publications a year! Big thanks to the StrokeEd community who are our biggest motivators.
Which workshops would you like more of?
April 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Annie shares 10 things she wishes she knew as a new grad working in stroke & UL rehab

1: Be a movement scientist
💡 Hypothesise the causes of observed movement differences
💡Assess muscle activity during tasks
💡 Hypothesise how you will target impairments

Full video: strokeed.com/10-things-i-...
April 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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BIG NUMBERS after stroke!

Stroke Survivor Brian A Beh talks about his experience wrapping his head around the number of reps required to see improvements in his functional rehab, and how he stayed motivated to keep hitting his targets.

Read the full blog post here: strokeed.com/20-reps-a-da...
April 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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We have an updated 2025 workshop calendar for online and face to face workshops from April - November 2025.

Visit the StrokeEd website to view our calendar and to book.

Face to face workshop calendar: strokeed.com/events/categ...

Online workshop calendar: strokeed.com/events/categ...
March 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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StrokeEd 2024 EU/UK Recap 🇪🇺
🇮🇪Dublin: stroke survivors did <1,500 reps in 3 days
🇬🇧Carlisle: a stroke survivor went from barely moving their shoulder to drinking from a cup
🇬🇧Edinburgh: 50+ people joined a 1000 reps workshop
🇩🇰Aarhus: a stroke survivor improved cutlery skills from 53s to 22s in 2 days
March 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Annie travels for teaching & workshops and has created an easy to make, inexpensive toolkit out of everyday items to use during UL assessment and training.

Can you guess what each item is used for? Make your suggestions in the comments, then watch the video on Youtube to hear Annie's explanation
March 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM