Walk the Walk:
High-Intensity Gait Training in Rehabilitation
A Comprehensive Online Course, Starts August 12, 2024
The online Walk the Walk course is a multi-component online course that includes online education, interaction with the course faculty in online meetings, and many resources and tools to support clinicians and organizations in implementing high-intensity gait training in clinical practice.
Registration fee: $495 USD
Description
When delivering gait training interventions to individuals with stroke, specific training parameters, including the amount, intensity, and variability of task-specific practice, can profoundly influence learning and patient outcomes. This multi-component training program provides an overview of the evidence related to high-intensity gait training. Online courses will provide a foundation for knowledge needed to apply high-intensity gait training in practice. In-person training will primarily focus on the application of this information to patients and clinical practice.
This program uses a variety of evidence-based KT strategies to maximize the use of high-intensity gait training by the program participants. Participants will also be asked to complete an online survey on current knowledge, skills, barriers, and facilitators related to High-Intensity Variable Gait Training and knowledge translation. Information obtained from the survey will guide the tailoring of information for each KT program cohort.
Online course on high-intensity gait training
3, 1-hour group question and answer sessions with the course faculty
3, 1-hour group mentoring sessions with the course faculty
High-Intensity Variable Gait Training knowledge tools (i.e. cheat sheets)
Three post-course online group mentoring sessions (3, 1 hour sessions)
Participation in an online community of practice for one year which will offer implementation support from peers and experts.
Program objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
Describe the rationale and evidence regarding the importance of amount, intensity, and variability of locomotor practice
Apply and progress high-intensity variable gait training in patient care
Identify weaknesses in the biomechanical subcomponents of gait in an individual with stroke
Explain how to safely monitor patients during application of the gait training program
Describe how to safely mobilize a maximum assistance patient
Describe knowledge translation strategies to implement high-intensity, variable gait training program