Dr. Kate Scrivener is a Senior Lecturer of Physiotherapy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia where she’s an educator and researcher. She’s also an educator with the Stroke Ed collaboration and that energy for education & innovation has seen her develop the REPS app and website - a set of exercise programs designed to help stroke survivors exercise at home, and the TRAIN program - a clinician’s guide to effective task specific training. Until recently she also worked clinically at Concentric Rehab in Sydney. She’s the lead investigator on the HiWalk trial and is involved in a number of other projects we didn’t get to talk about in the episode.

Kate’s episode zeros in on a number of her passion areas:
-  Education - making neuro easier to understand for students and implementing evidence into practice for practicing physios. 
-  Improving mobility, especially in the chronic phase in the community
-  Increasing dose of therapy

All this culminates in her HiWalk trial which has just finished recruitment.

There’s plenty to take away from this episode.

2.02 Intro – Work roles & life balance, neuro career

7.17 Teaching Neuro

10.21 TRAIN modules

11.42 Career pathway

15.19 Stroke Ed courses – practical ways to apply stroke guidelines

19.44 Australian NSF guidelines – to what setting do they apply? 

20.44 Interest in rehab in community sector 

23.48 HiWalk project

28.19  Intervention research pipeline - basing research trials on intervention feasibility 

31.47 Interest in walking after stroke, PhD

35.48 We need clinical researchers

36.34 Do you need a PhD to be a clinician researcher? 

41.22 HiWalk intervention package

43.10 Are reps the best way to quantify dose?

52.10 Kate’s favourite ways to increase dose of therapy

55.36 Post episode reflection

Links

Macquarie Uni profile 

Linked In profile

ResearchGate 

REPS app – download on Android or link TASK program website 

TRAIN program – A clinician’s guide to effective task specific training 

Articles discussed in the episode

Stroke survivors have fallen into a ‘black hole’ editorial

Schneider 2016 systematic review – amount of additional usual therapy  to improve activity after stroke 

Kate’s PhD articles – Exercise dose and mobility outcomes post stroke see Kate's ResearchGate

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