Dr. Kate Scrivener is a Senior Lecturer of Physiotherapy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia where she’s an educator and researcher. She’s also an educator with the Stroke Ed collaboration and that energy for education & innovation has seen her develop the REPS app and website - a set of exercise programs designed to help stroke survivors exercise at home, and the TRAIN program - a clinician’s guide to effective task specific training. Until recently she also worked clinically at Concentric Rehab in Sydney. She’s the lead investigator on the HiWalk trial and is involved in a number of other projects we didn’t get to talk about in the episode.
Kate’s episode zeros in on a number of her passion areas:
- Education - making neuro easier to understand for students and implementing evidence into practice for practicing physios.
- Improving mobility, especially in the chronic phase in the community
- Increasing dose of therapy
All this culminates in her HiWalk trial which has just finished recruitment.
There’s plenty to take away from this episode.
2.02 Intro – Work roles & life balance, neuro career
7.17 Teaching Neuro
10.21 TRAIN modules
11.42 Career pathway
15.19 Stroke Ed courses – practical ways to apply stroke guidelines
19.44 Australian NSF guidelines – to what setting do they apply?
20.44 Interest in rehab in community sector
23.48 HiWalk project
28.19 Intervention research pipeline - basing research trials on intervention feasibility
31.47 Interest in walking after stroke, PhD
35.48 We need clinical researchers
36.34 Do you need a PhD to be a clinician researcher?
41.22 HiWalk intervention package
43.10 Are reps the best way to quantify dose?
52.10 Kate’s favourite ways to increase dose of therapy
55.36 Post episode reflection
Links
Macquarie Uni profile
Linked In profile
ResearchGate
REPS app – download on Android or link TASK program website
TRAIN program – A clinician’s guide to effective task specific training
Articles discussed in the episode
Stroke survivors have fallen into a ‘black hole’ editorial
Schneider 2016 systematic review – amount of additional usual therapy to improve activity after stroke
Kate’s PhD articles – Exercise dose and mobility outcomes post stroke see Kate's ResearchGate
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