Based on the success of the Dutch 'Neurorehabilitation-Stroke' course and on questions from (inter)national organizations, we raised a Dutch International Neurorehabilitation Course.
In line with the original course applied in the Netherlands, however condensed to 3 days. This course, conducted by the Flying Dutch Stroke Team, is running since 2018 and can be offered tailored in your own country.
This course contains theoretical lectures in the morning by Dutch top researchers in the field of stroke rehabilitation and neuroplasticity (Prof. dr. Gert. Kwakkel) and practical exercise (case studies, clinical reasoning, training of practical skills and treatment of stroke-patients) in the afternoon, given by Dutch experienced teachers in Neurorehabilitation (Mrs.Jip F. Kamphuis, MSc and Hans Kerstens, MSc, PhD).
From left to right: Prof. dr. Gert. Kwakkel, Mrs.Jip F. Kamphuis, MSc and Hans Kerstens, MSc, PhD
Language during the course
English spoken
Main topics
The certified course educates allied health professionals to become experts in stroke rehabilitation.
Main topics to be teached are:
- Definitions, pathophysiology and time course of stroke recovery.
- Mechanisms of neurological and functional recovery of upper and lower limb post stroke
- Determinants predicting functional recovery early post stroke
- Clinical and Neurophysiological assessment of body functions and activities post stroke
- Evidence based therapies in Neurorehabilitation
- Optional topics suggested by the host.
Objectives
After the participant has followed the course he/she is able:
- to critically appraise scientific papers and ‘new’ interventions;
- to understand principles of motor control, motor learning and stroke recovery;
- to apply principles of clinical reasoning, including diagnostics, evaluation, prognostics and to select evidence based therapies;
- to apply state-of-the-art knowledge about evidence of current practice after stroke.
Interested?
Please contact:
Marleen Buruma
Coordinator postgraduate education Dutch Institute of Allied Health Care
About the lecturers
Professor Gert Kwakkel started his career as a physical therapists and movement scientists at the VU University medical Centre in Amsterdam. In 1998, he received his PhD on the thesis entitled: Dynamics in functional recovery after stroke. Professor Kwakkel received a chair ‘Neurorehabilitation’ at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, the Netherlands (formerly VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam) in March 2008 and head research of the department neurorehabilitation of rehabilitation center Reade in Amsterdam. Since June 2015, Gert Kwakkel is visiting professor at the department physical therapy and human movement sciences of the Northwestern University of Chicago, USA. His chair is dedicated to translational research in the field of neurorehabilitation with special focus on the longitudinal relationship between brain plasticity and motor recovery. His interest is mainly on patients with Stroke, however, some research is also focused on Parkinsons’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis.
Professor Kwakkel published more than 230 papers with more than 11.000 citations in leading scientific journals such as The Lancet, The Lancet Neurology, BMJ and Stroke (Web of Science Hirsch Index 53). Based on a prestigious laureate from the European Research Council (ERC), Professor Kwakkel belongs to one of the top researchers of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, the Netherlands. Professor Kwakkel is European Managing Editor of the journal Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair (NNR). In addition, he is member of the editorial board of Stroke, International Journal of Stroke, Journal Rehabilitation Medicine and Physiotherapy Research International Research. Finally, professor Kwakkel is president of the Dutch Society of NeuroRehabilitation (DSNR; www.neurorehab.nl) in the Netherlands.
Mrs. Jip Kamphuis is an experienced physical therapist and expert in clinical reasoning and treatment of patients after Stroke. She is working in the Sint Maartenskliniek, an innovative centre for rehabilitation in Nijmegen, Netherlands. She studied Clinical Health Sciences and graduated at the University of Utrecht. Since 2008 she is teacher and course leader of the Dutch Neurorehabilitation course for PT’s. She published several papers on Balance Rehabilitation and participated in the development and writing of the Dutch Guidelines.
Mr Hans Kerstens graduated in 1992 as a physical therapist. Since then, he worked in The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland in several hospitals, rehab centers and outpatient therapy institutions. He received his Master in Human movement science at the Maastricht University in 2012. Currently, Hans Kerstens is a lecturer Physical Therapy, and senior researcher at the HAN University of Applied Sciences and the Radboud University Medical Center. In his PhD studies, he developed and evaluated a patient centered and patient managed online spasticity monitoring system, based on a user centered design. He is member of the European steering committee for implementation of spasticity monitoring. Hans Kerstens teaches Neurorehab courses in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Ethiopia, and the neurorehab summercourses in Denmark and Singapore. Since 2007, he is lecturer and course leader of the Dutch Neurorehabilitation course for physical therapists.