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Claire shares insights from an educational session held at Rogue on trekking poles.  She shares why clients may want to use trekking poles, who they are good for, how they can be used to optimize fitness and wellness, how they help improve coordination and posture, and more.

Check out this video from Rogue’s YouTube channel to learn more: https://youtu.be/6-IYCZTGEkU

Anti-racist Action: Understanding the characteristics of White Supremacy culture to ponder and be aware of. There are antidotes to these too. Read more at:

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html

Join us for a free 2-part webinar on gait starting May 20th and 26th! Register here: https://www.neurocollaborative.com/stance

We’re growing the support inside NeuroSpark!  We are niching down our support for members who work with people with Parkinson’s.  This summer we will start providing a Parkinson’s specific group for professionals to attend for ideas, biz tips, support and more!  Listen while we talk about our brainstorming about what this track will look like.  It will be available only for NeuroSpark members.

Anti-racist Action: Understanding the characteristics of White Supremacy culture to ponder and be aware of. There are antidotes to these too. Read more at:

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html

1. Perfectionism
2. Sense of urgency
3. Fear of open conflict
4. Right to comfort
5. Objectivity
6. Individualism
7. Paternalism

Join us for a free 2-part webinar on gait starting May 20th and 26th! Register here: https://www.neurocollaborative.com/stance

In today’s show we talk about our favorite way to learn and the exciting topics to come up over the next quadrimester in NeuroSpark Membership.  We’ll be exploring deeper into the ever-challenging topic of spasticity, movement analysis, circuit and HIIT exercises for clients, patient cases, vestibular assessment, and IASTM.  We’ll also allude to the topics we are thinking coming up down the pipeline! 

Anti-racist Action: Highly recommend the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.  Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.Her second book, CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents, explores the unrecognized hierarchy in America, its history and its consequences. Caste became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, was the 2020 summer/fall selection for Oprah’s Book Club and was long listed for the National Book Award. It was named to more best of the year lists than any other work of nonfiction and was named the No. 1 book of 2020 across all genres by the industry arbiter, Publishers Marketplace.

Join us for a free 2-part webinar on gait starting May 20th and 26th! Register here: https://www.neurocollaborative.com/stance

On today’s show we interview Carol-Ann Nelson, founder of Destination Rehab (501c3) in 2016 to address the isolation and lack of outdoor recreation for adults with neurologic conditions. Carol-Ann talks about the gap that she saw for patients after they finished rehab and found themselves rarely leaving their houses.  She was passionate about helping people experience the things they used to love in their lives that they’ve lost. She discusses the reasons she decided to create a nonprofit business, the programs, referrals, and funding.  She also explains how, even though they work outdoors, they haven’t had any trouble getting Medicare to cover therapy.  She is clear and transparent about both the positives and challenges of doing outdoor therapy.

You can learn more about Carol-Ann and Destination Rehab at destinationrehab.org

Group classes are different since COVID.  We’re excited people are able to start returning to in person groups but creative ideas are needed to do circuit classes to keep everyone safe.  We’re also noticing the levels people are at after a year of exercising virtually on Zoom, which is interesting.  Claire shares practical and creative ideas for you to implement in your next group class for people with Parkinson’s!  She shares how she helps keep participant heart rates up during classes by reducing the cognitive demand.  Follow Rogue PT Wellness on instagram and Rogue Physical Therapy and Wellness on Facebook to watch some cool Reels of her clients at work! 

Anti-racist action: New term alert!  Many of us are familiar with the term “microaggression,” however, this term has been updated to now be called “subtle act of exclusion” or SAE.  One of the books on our Building Allyship reading list is called Subtle Acts of Exclusion by Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran.  I’ll explain why the switch and my own lessons learned.  

Why are we doing this? What’s it all for? Do we look like we are doing EVERYTHING? Why does NeuroCollaborative exist and how do we know when we are successful?  

In today’s episode we talk about our mission and vision, what we are against in healthcare culture, and what we value.  We also discuss the purpose of what we’ve created in NeuroCollaborative, like our free Facebook group and what it is for as well as what it is NOT for.  We open up about all of it! 

Anti-racist action: we hired a DEI business consultant that we will be working with very soon! Plus we continue to read the books and meet in a small group with others on this path that we can talk openly to.  Creating a trusted group is highly recommended!

Sarrisa Curry is founder, president and head coach of the Parkinson’s Exercise and Wellness Center, a 501c3 organization dedicated to the Parkinson’s community of the Kansas City area. Learn the story of how being involved in the fitness world led Sarrisa to follow an intuitive nudge of working with individuals with Parkinson’s.  Sarrisa discusses how her programs began, the evolution of services offered, the cost to clients, the fundraising aspect, and her best advice to others interested in building a nonprofit wellness center.

You can learn more about the PEWC at: www.thepewc.org or call them at 913-276-4665

You can also follow their organization on FB and instagram as the Parkinson’s Exercise and Wellness Center

Today we continue our nonprofit highlights with Rebecca Bliss and Susan Saenger.  We will learn more about their unique nonprofit business model and set up. They offer free PD exercise classes in Durham, NC through the Parkinson’s Movement Initiative, which operates under the American Dance Festival.  With this setup they are able to provide free classes to their community, which has been really effective for their mission of improving access to care.  It is a collaborative model where the parent organization greatly helps with outreach and other administrative challenges that smaller groups face.  Our guests discuss their time commitment as they both work full time outside of the program.  They operate under grant funding and talk about the outcomes used for funding, as well as how a therapist interested in working in the community like this could get started.

Learn more about their clases at https://www.americandancefestival.org/community/parkinsons-movement-initiative/

Follow: NC Dance for Parkinson’s Facebook

Reach out at: [email protected]

Today we talk to Tiffany Piquillioud, PT, DPT, NCS who runs the Challenge Center, a non-profit that helps seniors and individuals with disabilities get skilled therapy and adaptive fitness services in the San Diego, CA area.

She joined the Challenge Center 18 years ago. It started as a fitness center and now provides therapy and wellness to anyone with a goal to maximize everyone’s function.  They can see people for the length of time it takes to get them there. They serve all people with disabilities and provide a sliding scale for services. She discusses how the business runs, what fundraising for the non-profit looks like, and more!

Learn more about Challenge Center by going here: http://www.challengecenter.org You can check out their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiKoy1uJ424Vc93NibNBA5Q/feed

Reach out to Tiffany at: [email protected]  

To watch more about non-profits check out the free webinar we hosted with Tiffany and others running non-profit organizations at www.neurocollaborative.com/webinars

In today’s show we talk about what you need to know about documenting wellness as well as what to say in that difficult conversation with your clients so they can understand the difference between wellness and therapy.  We’ll also let you know what you need to know in order to start a wellness program of your own.

Anti-racist action: Today we’re going through some of the advocacy bullets in the Black Rehabilitation Manifesto. We’ll let you know what they are to give an idea of how we can become advocates. http://www.ujimainstitute.com/black-rehabilitation-manifesto.html