Treatment techniques...

[Judith Mollet]

I agree with Gawaine entirely. I'm not certain whether you are still a student or newly qualified but I am asking myself what do Physios get taught nowadays? On a sympathetic note, I remember myself as a physio student in the UK horrified as I ended up on the stroke wards placement before we had the theory of strokes. But we did have a Bobath trained physio for stuff before our final exams. Thank heavens. Now do I really have to say, go to your physio library and find books on maybe the Bobath Concept? Good for a start. If "Form and Function" from Bente E Basso Gjelsvik (norwegian o with slash) is available in english go for it. If you've had the theory already sometime go though what you learnt. Being thrown in at the deep end is not nice, but the clinical educator, should have had neuro further education and should be able to help. Talking about "techniques for the upper & lower limb" does not, I admit sound too helpful. One has to have an understanding of Motor learning, motor control, normal movement a good basics of applied neurophysiology to apply "techniques". That is to know why you are doing it. Trunk control in early stroke patients can't be forgotten, it's a whole body and nervous system that interacts and not just upper and lower limb. Inpress your clinical educator with the fact that you've done some background homework. Wish you luck in the placement. Stroke patients and neuro physio are challenging but interesting. Go for it!

[Canuck Physio]

I think that is a bit harsh. the whole problem with the teaching system is its reliance on asking students to self teach out of textbooks. It is perhaps for these reasons that the average person on the street has little faith in physiotherapy until they get first hand experience with it, while relying on drugs towards the end years of their lives to 'pseudo-solve' all their problems. An emphasis on promoting and sharing research based, or clinical based interventions should be encouraged, especially to students.

[linbin]

i agree with you.i feel a bit of self learning will help a novel physio to get awareness about the multiple options/techniques available.definitely to be good at it he/she needs assistance of an expert physio.
the books which i felt useful
steps to follow
right on the middle
adult hemiplegia