This half-day workshop will focus on the application of skilled neuro-facilitation techniques borrowed from traditional neurorehabilitation approaches, including proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) and neurodevelopmental training (NDT), as well as from more modern approaches such as activity-based therapy (ABT). Participants will use their hands to adapt therapies in real-time for functional outcomes in patients with challenging neurological diagnoses.
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1/2-Day Workshop
Neuro-Facilitation in Neuro-Rehabilitation: PNF, NDT and ABT
£350.00
Your Instructor
Amie Lamoreaux Hesbach
Amie Hesbach is a doctor of physical therapy with over twenty-five years of experience with human patients and over twenty with small animal patients. She has expertise and experience in the application of manual therapy and facilitation techniques (including PNF and IASTM), corrective functional exercise training, and proprioceptive and neuromuscular retraining in orthopaedic, athletic, and neurologic patients. She has a clinical interest in the application of physical therapy and rehabilitation techniques to maximize the potential for NeuroPlasticity and recovery in her patients.
Dr. Hesbach was educated at the University of Montana (DPT, Physical Therapy), the Medical College of Virginia (MS, Physical Therapy), and Slippery Rock Univeristy of Pennsylvania (BS, Biology). She completed a post-graduate NeuroRehabilitation residency in Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) at the Kaiser Foundation Rehabilitation Center in Vallejo, California.
Dr. Hesbach is certified in Canine Rehabilitation through both the University of Tennessee and the Canine Rehabilitation Institute. Dr. Hesbach has published and lectured on both human and animal rehabilitation in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, and Japan and continues to offer webinars and clinical coaching to pet parents and pet physical therapy and rehabilitation colleagues online.
Dr. Hesbach is a past president of the Animal Rehabilitation/Physical Therapy Special Interest Group of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). She owns and operates EmpowerPhysio, a mobile pet physical therapy and rehabilitation practice near Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Hesbach was honored with the award of the IAVRPT Animal Rehabilitation Practitioner of the Year in 2022.