Navigating Neurophysio: Career Insights and Challenges

A/Prof Simone Dorsch is a lecturer in neurological physiotherapy at Australian Catholic University in Sydney and a Director at the StrokEd collaboration. Simone holds a Masters of Health Science (Neurological Physiotherapy) and a PhD in increasing strength after stroke from University of Sydney. We spend time talking about strength training after stroke, dose and intensity of practice, courses offered by Stroke Ed including the Upper Limb Stroke Rehab Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) that ran for the first time in June 2024.

There’s chats about empowerment in rehab, the family role, personalising practise and what interventions we should and shouldn’t be using.

0 Intro
23.00 Current roles & career
45.00 MOOC UL stroke rehab
14.45 Stroke Ed courses
17.50 Coaching
21.10 How much to ‘talk’ as a physio
24.20 Empowerment & engagement
29.05 Strength training
32.45 Clinical reasoning framework of TST
35.10 What interventions we should be doing
38.30 Teaching how to practice - how not to scare people off
41.30 Hands-on approaches
44.30 Personalising practise
53.20 Family empowerment
57.10 Definition of Bobath in studies

Links

Simone’s ACU profile 

Simone’s X 

Simone’s phd papers/ research gate

LinkedIn 

Stroke Ed website

Caitlin reed episode link 

Other StrokeEd presenters episodes:

Dr Annie McCluskey 

Dr Kate Scrivener

Resources

Articles discussed in episode:

Xu Wen Eng 2014 Factors Affecting the Ability of the Stroke Survivor to Drive Their Own Recovery outside of Therapy during Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation

Bobath Systematic reviews: 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S183695532030103X'

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1836955322001151

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