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Clinical Session Proposals

Central Nervous System

Session Name: Concurrent Sessions

Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation: Debating the Controversies

Friday, November 17, 2023
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM CT
Location: CC The Great Hall B
In-Person Live Stream On Demand

    Session Director(s)

  • Joel Stein, MD (he/him/his)

    Professor and Chair
    Columbia University Medical Center
    New York, New York

    Disclosure(s): BrainQ: Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing)

    • Faculty(s)

  • Michael W. O'Dell, MD (he/him/his)

    Professor Emeritus
    Weill Cornell Med Center
    New York, New York

    Disclosure(s): Center for Independence of the Disabled - New York: Officer or Board Member (Ongoing); Merz Inc: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing)

  • PR

    Preeti Raghavan, MD

    Associate Professor
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Baltimore, Maryland

    Disclosure(s): Mirrored Motion Works, Inc.: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Officer or Board Member (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing); Movease, Inc.: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing)

  • Vu Nguyen, MBA, MD

    Professor and Chair
    University of Alabama At Birmingham
    Birmingham, Alabama

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Session Description: Stroke recovery and rehabilitation is evolving rapidly due to growing numbers of clinical trials and expanding therapeutic options. As a consequence, practitioners face difficult decisions when choosing among various therapies and prioritizing resource allocation. Among evolving topics are the use of virtual reality therapy, mirror therapy, robot-assisted rehabilitation, vagal nerve stimulation, non-invasive brain stimulation and other approaches. This session will include a case-based debate among experts regarding the best approach to facilitate stroke recovery and optimize rehabilitation for a range of stroke survivors with varying impairments and needs.

Why is this session needed? : Physicians caring for stroke survivors have a growing array of treatment options, but clinical research data is of varying quality and may be difficult to interpret. Clinical guidelines for the application of these treatments often lag behind the latest evidence. Rapid evolution of stroke recovery rehabilitation techniques, such as recent reports of remote ischemic conditioning and multiple studies of robotics and virtual reality require frequent changes in practice. This session will incorporate expertise from a panel of experienced stroke rehabilitation experts with a variety of viewpoints to help participants synthesize their own approach to this area of rehabilitation care.

Was this session previously presented at the Annual Assembly?A session with the same format was presented in 2022. The specific topics addressed this year will be different from the prior presentation, and thus the information provided will complement, rather than duplicate, prior content.

Learning Objectives:

  • List the major options for evidence-based stroke recovery and rehabilitation therapies
  • Select from among the stroke recovery and rehabilitation therapies to choose the most appropriate option(s) for each patient.
  • Identify the advantages, disadvantages, risks and benefits of a variety of stroke recovery and rehabilitation therapies.