152: How to REALLY Train Cognition During Dual Task Activities With Dr. Mike Studer, PT, DPT, MHS, NCS, FAPTA
Mar 13, 2023
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Dr. Mike Studer shares a framework for cognitive training during dual tasks, emphasizing subdivisions like holding and processing information. He advocates for fun and free treatment methods, incorporating behavioral economics for assessments. Also, he discusses helping patients overcome fear through play, productivity, progress, and personalization.
Cognitive training should focus on holding, processing, generating, and recalling information during dual tasks.
Implement personalized, playful, and productive interventions to counter fear and support movement in rehabilitation practices.
Deep dives
Exploring the Journey to Neurological Rehabilitation
Discussing the accidental entry into physical therapy, the passion for neurologic rehabilitation, and the evolutionary career journey. Dr. Mike Studer's experience and valuable insights offer a unique perspective towards patient care and innovation in rehabilitation.
Enhancing Dual Tasking in Rehabilitation
Dr. Studer delves into personalized dual tasking interventions, highlighting the importance of cognitive distractions like short-term working memory, processes, and generating activities. Through examples and frameworks, the discussion emphasizes the value of structured cognitive challenges in improving motor functions.
Behavioral Economics and Therapeutic Approaches
Exploring behavioral economic principles, including nudging, gamification, confirmation bias, and loss aversion, Dr. Studer navigates through methodologies to counter fear and support movement. Personalized, productive, and play-based interventions redefine rehabilitation strategies, focusing on individual progress and autonomy.
Key Takeaway: Autonomy in Dual Tasking
An emphasis on alleviating pressure in creating diverse dual tasks, Dr. Studer advocates for harnessing patient autonomy and integrating personalized challenges. Encouraging clinicians to leverage patient preferences and experiences, the approach fosters engagement and innovation in rehabilitation practices.
We had a very special guest on the show today who brought the knowledge bombs!! Mike Studer is a well known speaker and educator in neuro physical therapy and boy did he come to teach today! Always thinking of the next helpful thing for clinicians and patients, Dr. Studer shared his framework for improving how we deliver and measure cognitive training during dual tasks in order to offer a comprehensive approach.
He believes cognitive training should be subdivided into holding information, processing information, generating, and recalling. He describes what each of these looks like and provides examples of how to implement them into your practice during dual task assessment and training. Dr. Studer reports testing should have a specific method, but treatment can be free and fun.
He also shares how often you should do assessments vs free flowing treatment by following behavioral economics, or the study of human decision making and choice. Additionally, we get into the ways to help patients beat fear through the 4 P’s: play, productivity, progress, and personalize.
Get out your notebook for this one! Save it to relisten (on slow speed, lol) because you’re going to get so many great takeaways that you can apply to your practice immediately.
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