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Correct Knee Hyperextension after a Neurologic Injury

by Alyanna Ta | Mar 25, 2025 | Neurologic Rehabilitation Concepts, Stroke Balance, Stroke Leg Exercises, Stroke Treatment

Struggling with Knee Hyperextension? Here’s How to Fix It! Does your knee snap backward when you walk? Do your steps feel jerky, unsteady, or inefficient? If so, you might be dealing with knee hyperextension, a common issue after a stroke, brain injury,...

How to Fix a Vaulting Gait

by Alyanna Ta | Mar 18, 2025 | Balance, Movement and Rehab, Neurologic Rehabilitation Concepts, Stroke Leg Exercises

How to Stop Vaulting and Walk More Naturally After a Stroke If you’ve ever noticed yourself pushing up on your stronger leg to swing your weaker leg forward while walking, you may be experiencing vaulting. The good news? Vaulting can be unlearned with the right...

Discover 15 Principles to Rewiring Your Brain Faster

by Alyanna Ta | Mar 12, 2025 | Neurologic Rehabilitation Concepts

Discover 15 Principles to Rewiring your Brain Faster Transform Your Mindset and Achieve Rapid Results Neuroplasticity: Your Brain’s Superpower After a stroke, the brain can suffer damage, but it’s far from the end. But here’s the good news: your brain has an amazing...

Eye Exercises for Stroke Survivors: Regaining Vision and Function

by Tara Tobias | Sep 17, 2024 | Activities of daily living, Balance, Brain Science, Neurologic Rehabilitation Concepts

Visual impairment is a very common consequence in stroke survivors—almost 50% of stroke survivors become visually impaired. This is primarily because the brain’s visual pathways are blocked or damaged when a person experiences a stroke. As a result, patients...

Discharged from therapy. What now?

by Tara Tobias | Jul 12, 2021 | Caregiver Resources, Mental strategies, Neurologic Rehabilitation Concepts, Stroke, Stroke Treatment

So, you have been discharged from therapy. So, what now? For some, this is a positive step in the rehab process. Some will understand right away that this is progress. On the other hand, for others it can bring up all kinds of negative emotions. “Is my therapist...

Hemineglect after a stroke: When half the world is missing

by Tara Tobias | Aug 4, 2020 | Caregiver Resources, Neurologic Rehabilitation Concepts, Stroke

hemineglect is a condition where someone loses the ability to attend to, sense, and/or perceive information on one side. This condition is also referred to as unilateral neglect, spatial neglect, and/or hemispatial neglect. Several neurologic condition can cause this...