I Love Neuro

Who hasn’t heard the “you’ve got to put your oxygen mask on first” analogy referring to self care? Is it just me or is that saying super annoying? I’m not a proponent of it, and in today’s show I’ll tell you why. I’ll share what you should do instead if you’re feeling like you’re not doing as well as you’d like to be in life. Whether you’re feeling tired, burnt out, emotionally drained, broke, stressed, overwhelmed, overworked, scared, or numb, listen up for a helpful strategy you can put to use right away. When you use this strategy you’ll start to feel happy, joyful, generous and present for yourself and the people you care about most. Promise!

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Neuro therapists are creative, problem solvers, and love challenges which makes us great candidates for doing things in a unique way. Erica DeMarch, founder of Step and Connect talks about her career journey starting as a neuro therapist, getting involved in research, and on to developing her own clinical tool to solve the problems she was seeing in the clinic. She had a strong desire to help clients improve their ability to practice balance and have specific feedback when working on their exercises at home. Learn about the path she took, the lessons she learned along the way, and get inspired to create your own unique path using your creativity.

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Article: Use of real-time multimodal sensory feedback home program improved backward stride and retention for people with Parkinson Disease: A pilot study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590112522000032

What if your work week were 32 hours? If you’re starting out in your career or have your own business, have you thought about the structure you’d like to create in your business and for your employees? Claire shares her thoughts about creating a 4-day work week at Rogue as her team grows. She’s seen a lot of benefits with a less than full time schedule that she shares and gives some things for you to consider if you have an opportunity to adjust your schedule at some point.

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Being a neuro clinician has a lot of challenges. In today’s show I talk about the top challenges you face on a day to day basis, like lack of time, lack of mentorship, lack of resources, and documentation, and I tell you exactly what to do to help. I’ll share stories and techniques that helped me go from “rage documenting” feverishly after hours to leaving work on time with all my notes done. I’ll also share exactly what to do if you’re drained because you feel overly responsible for “fixing” your patients. I hope you get some tangible strategies to try today! 

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Claire went to PD Spring Break led by Dr. Laurie Mischley, NP, PhD, a naturopathic physician based in Seattle, Washington. She treats people with Parkinson’s by combining neuroscience and nutrition, including foods and supplements.  

Top Takeaways: 

• Find a good neurologist that you can collaborate with
• Get different opinions on medication (it takes at least 75 mg carbidopa cumulative in your day for it to be effective to block the side effects of the levodopa. 10/100 medication is not effective or helpful. 1/3 of medications have series side effects right when it comes out because the studies have limitations that don’t always show the serious side effects until more people have taken it)
• Difference between naturopathic vs allopathic (ie. traditional MD/DO)
• Social connection is one of the most important components of of health along with diet, supplementation and exercise

To learn more about Dr. Mischley visit her website here: https://educationismedicine.com

Find Dr. Mischley’s Online PD School here: https://www.parkinson-school.com

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3707928/pdf/nihms462530.pdf

"The minimum daily dose of carbidopa is thought to be 75 mg per day.4"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7356419/

"Twenty-one patients with Parkinson's disease were studied because their low maintenance dosages of carbidopa-levodopa in the customary ratio of 1:10 provided less than the daily 75 mg of carbidopa believed necessary to achieve full inhibition of extracerebral dopa decarboxylation. "

https://www.rxlist.com/lodosyn-drug.htm

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Many new therapy and wellness business owners aren’t paying themselves a salary. Why is this happening? Let’s talk about finances and how you can prevent yourself from burning out and becoming resentful of your clients by actually giving yourself a paycheck! 

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On today’s show we share our top takeaways from a recent webinar inside NeuroSpark Membership taught by Jennifer Lazaro, PT, DPT, NCS. It’s a broad topic and all neuro therapists should have a basic idea of where to start and what to focus on with your clients who’ve had a concussion.  

In the show we share the keys to recovering from a concussion (hint: it is not sitting in a dark room or waking up every hour) and the key domains for treatment when someone has symptoms that linger. Symptoms lasting longer than a month are known as Post Concussion Syndrome, so this is where your skills are needed!  

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Today we talk to one of our mentors, Valerie Carter, about her experience as a neuro PT who had the unique opportunity to study the effects of exercise on people with Parkinson’s by helping her mom live very well for 30 years with PD. Valerie became really interested in utilizing the most sensitive outcome measures which led her down the road of studying backwards walking. Valerie shares why you should use the 3 Meter Backward Walking Test (3MBWT), exactly how to implement it, what the cutoff scores for falls are for the elderly and for people with PD, and more!

Article in 2020 w/ Becky Farley: Diagnostic Accuracy of the 3-Meter Backward Walk Test in Persons with Parkinson Disease https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343173711_Diagnostic_Accuracy_of_the_3-Meter_Backward_Walk_Test_in_Persons_With_Parkinson_Disease

Woo hoo we made it to 100 episodes! Patting ourselves on the back for releasing an episode every week no matter what. In today’s show we share with you the highlights of the I Love Neuro podcast: Our top 10 most downloaded episodes. If you haven’t listened to these, I highly recommend you check them out! We’ll discuss a little blurb on each episode so you know what you’re in store for. We were surprised and excited to see what rose to the top of our downloads!

Ever feel intimidated by adding dual task activities to your therapy sessions? Are there times you’re not sure where to start with your clients? Maybe you don’t want to make it too easy or too difficult, and sometimes you’re not really sure if what you’re doing actually qualifies for dual tasking. Well, this episode is for you! We interview Tara McIsaac, a clinician and researcher who breaks down the dual task puzzle into an amazingly simple taxonomy. Her research findings help you apply a simple formula into your practice to ensure you’re dual tasking in the most helpful way possible.

In the show you will learn the correct way to measure both of the tasks so you can compare the performance of single and dual task performance. We also discuss what qualifies for a dual task and what doesn’t, provide some real world examples, discuss how people can get better at dual tasking and give examples of how to progress it with clients. 

Building a framework for a dual task taxonomy. McIsaac T, Lamberg E, Muratori L. Biomed Res Int. 2015. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25961027/

Cognitive-Motor Interference in Neurodegenerative Disease: A Narrative Review and Implications for Clinical Management. McIsaac T, Fritz N, Quinn L, Muraton L. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6218850/

Creighton University Phoenix https://www.creighton.edu/academics/programs/physical-therapy-phoenix

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tara-Mcisaac