RehabCast: The Rehabilitation Medicine Update

In the 53rd episode of RehabCast, we spotlight two revolutionary approaches that are transforming the world of rehabilitation. First, Kristin Nuckols, an occupational therapist and co-founder of Imago Rehab, takes us on a journey through the creation of a wearable soft robotic glove. This groundbreaking device empowers stroke survivors to regain independence by bringing therapy into their homes. Next, we sit down with Dr. Alberto Esquenazi, an internationally renowned expert in spasticity management, who shares insights from his landmark longitudinal study on botulinum toxin. He explains how precision treatments and patient-centered goals are unlocking new possibilities in functional recovery. From robotics to cutting-edge clinical care, these conversations shine a light on how innovation and collaboration are breaking barriers and reshaping rehabilitation for the better. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing, and more.

In the 52nd episode of the RehabCast, our host Dr. Bill Niehaus first meets four different highlighted speakers who will be presenting at the 2024 ACRM conference with PhD Elizabeth Stegemöller, an associate professor from Iowa State University, who discusses her groundbreaking research on how singing can improve motor symptoms in people with Parkinson's disease. Dr Niehaus then welcomes Alarcos Cieza, who leads rehabilitation initiatives at the World Health Organization, talks about the global push to make rehabilitation a public health priority, followed by Dr. Jeff Burns, co-director of the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, who explores how lifestyle interventions such as exercise, diet, and sleep can prevent or slow down Alzheimer’s disease. And then in closing he welcomes Brooke Murtaugh and Dr. A. Shapiro-Rosenbaum who discuss providing patient-centered education to loved ones of people dealing with disorders of consciousness brain injury. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing, and more. #Parkinson #Singing #MusicTherapy #Alzheimers #BrainInjury #RehabCast #ACRM #Rehabilitation To contact the RehabCast team go to https://acrm.org/publications/archives-of-pm-r/rehabcast/ Contact Dr Niehaus at https://twitter.com/NHausMD or https://www.instagram.com/nhausmd/

In the 51st episode of the #RehabCast, our host Dr. Bill Niehaus first meets with Maheen M. Adamson, PhD, MHL to discuss A Vision Neuroscience-Based Communication & Detection Solution for “The Speechless” (https://acrm.org/acrm-communities/technology/launchpad/acrm-launchpad-2023-winners/). Dr Niehaus then welcomes Anne Deutsch PhD, RN, CRRN and Raj Kumar PhD MPH to look into Trends in the Characteristics and Outcomes of Older Medicare Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury Treated in Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities: 2013 to 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2024.02.716).

In the 50th episode of #RehabCast, host Dr. Bill Niehaus engages in a thought-provoking discussion with Julia To Dutka, EdD, Bruce M. Gans, MD, and Richard Oliver, PhD about their study, "Delivering Rehabilitation Care Around the World: Voices From the Field" (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2023.03.009). This conversation sheds light on global rehabilitation efforts and the power of collaborative care. Following this enriching dialogue, Dr. Niehaus shifts focus to the innovative research conducted by Andrew C. Smith, PT, DPT, PhD, and Kenneth A. Weber II, DC, PhD, exploring "A Single Dermatome Clinical Prediction Rule for Independent Walking 1 Year After Spinal Cord Injury" (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2023.06.015), an impactful study that offers new insights into predicting mobility outcomes after SCI. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: #Physiatry, #OccupationalTherapy, #PhysicalTherapy, #SpeechTherapy, #Neuropsychology, #RehabilitationNursing, and more.

In the 49th episode of the #RehabCast, our host Dr. Bill Niehaus meets with the 100th ACRM conference Plenary Speakers (https://acrm2023.eventscribe.net/agenda.asp?pfp=BrowsebyDay&fb=Plenaries). Join him meeting up with Anjali J. Forber‐Pratt, PhD (she/her/hers), Mark J. Ashley, Sc.D., CCC-SLP, Lisa D. VanHoose, PT, PhD, David Putrino, PT, PhD, and Thomas J. Oxley, MBBS PhD. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing, and more. #ACRM100 #RehabCast #ACRM #rehabilitation To contact the RehabCast team go to https://acrm.org/publications/archives-of-pm-r/rehabcast/ Contact Philip Frobos at https://www.instagram.com/philipfrobos/ Contact Dr Niehaus at https://twitter.com/NHausMD or https://www.instagram.com/nhausmd/

In the 48th episode of the #RehabCast, join our host, Dr. Bill Niehaus, as he engages in a captivating conversation with seven esteemed members of the ACRM organization. Together, they explore the remarkable journey of the rehabilitation field and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. As we celebrate the 100th ACRM conference, tune in to gain insights from past ACRM presidents, including Gerben DeJong, PhD, Joseph Giacino, PhD, Sue Ann Sisto, PhD, Allen Heinemann, PhD, Deborah Backus, PhD, and Pamela Roberts, PhD. Additionally, discover the perspectives of the incumbent president, Fofi Constantinidou, MD. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing, and more. #RehabCast #ACRM #rehabilitation #Leadership #MedEd To contact the RehabCast team go to https://acrm.org/publications/archives-of-pm-r/rehabcast/ Contact Dr Niehaus at https://twitter.com/NHausMD or https://www.instagram.com/nhausmd/ Contact Jenny Ament at https://www.instagram.com/jennyament/ Contact Philip Frobos at https://www.instagram.com/philipfrobos/

In this special edition episode of the #RehabCast, our host Dr. Bill Niehaus first meets with Rebecca Eberle, MA, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, FACRM, Michael Fraas, PhD, CCC-SLP, MHL, CBIS, Donna Langenbahn, PhD, FACRM, and Amy Shapiro-Rosenbaum, PhD, FACRM to discuss how the ACRM Rebooted and Updated the Cognition Rehabilitation Manual and Associated workshops (cognitiverehabilitation.org). #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing, and more. #Cognition #BrainInjury #RehabCast #ACRM #rehabilitation To contact the RehabCast team go to https://acrm.org/publications/archives-of-pm-r/rehabcast/ Contact Philip Frobos at https://www.instagram.com/philipfrobos/ Contact Dr Niehaus at https://twitter.com/NHausMD or https://www.instagram.com/nhausmd/

In the 47th episode of the #RehabCast, our host Dr. Bill Niehaus first meets with Dr Noah Silverberg to discuss the updated American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Diagnostic Criteria for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (https://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(23)00297-6/fulltext). Dr Niehaus then welcomes Dr Wendy Magee to look into the Validation of the Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness With the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (https://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(23)00175-2/fulltext). #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing, and more. #BrainInjury #TBI #TBIrehab #Music #MusicTherapy #RehabCast #ACRM #Rehabilitation 
 To contact the RehabCast team go to https://acrm.org/publications/archives-of-pm-r/rehabcast/ Contact Philip Frobos at https://www.instagram.com/philipfrobos/ Contact Dr Niehaus at https://twitter.com/NHausMD

In the 46th episode of the #RehabCast, our host Dr. Bill Niehaus first meets with Occupational Therapist Stephanie Kubiak, PhD and Associate Professor Elliot Sklar, PhD to discuss Racial and Ethnic Disparities of Social Participation After Tetraplegia (https://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(23)00109-0/fulltext). Dr Niehaus then welcomes Psychologists Dr Jane Duff and Lucy Grant to look into when clinicians should help with the anxiety response following a spinal cord injury (https://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(23)00219-8/fulltext ). #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing, and more. #RehabCast #ACRM #SpinalCordInjury #SCI #SCIrehab #rehabilitation #MentalHealth #Anxiety # Poikilothermia https://twitter.com/NHausMD To contact the RehabCast team go to https://acrm.org/publications/archives-of-pm-r/rehabcast/ Contact Philip Frobos at https://www.instagram.com/philipfrobos/ Contact Dr Niehaus at https://twitter.com/NHausMD

In the 44th episode of RehabCast, our new host Dr. Bill Niehaus first meets with the ACRM 2022 LaunchPad winner, Lianna Genovese, who is the CEO & Founder of ImaginAble Solutions. Her Guided Hands™ device helps enable anyone with limited fine motor skills to write, paint, draw and access technology (www.imaginablesolutions.com). Dr Niehaus then welcomes Julio C. Furlan, MD, LLB, MBA, MSc, PhD who discusses their paper, “Sex-Related Discrepancies in the Access to Optimal Care and Outcomes After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Data From a Canadian Registry” (https://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993%2822%2901607-0/fulltext). #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing, and more.

In the 44th episode of RehabCast we welcome new host Dr. Bill Niehaus. Dr. Niehaus takes over from Dr. Ford Vox who joins us to make the official handoff. Dr. Niehaus' first interview is with William Kokay, BSW about his paper "Mixed Study Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Sexuality and Sexual Rehabilitation in LGBTQI+ Adults Living With Chronic Disease". Dr. Niehaus then welcomes Dr. Sheryl Katta-Charles who talks about her study "Depression, anxiety, and suicidality in individuals with chronic traumatic brain injury before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A NIDILRR TBI Model Systems Study". #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more. https://twitter.com/NHausMD

In the 43rd episode of RehabCast we feature Sara Suikkanen of the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland on a creative intervention for home based therapies to fight frailty in older adults, and Brad Dicianno of the University of Pittsburgh on what assistive technology professionals bring to the table. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

In the 42nd episode of the Archives of Physical Medicine’s RehabCast we talk with Loren Davidson of UC Davis about her work on a pediatric tele-rehab program, and then we drop in with Hiral Master on the link between ambulation and outcomes after lumbar spine surgery. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

The 41st episode of the Archives of Physical Medicine’s RehabCast introduces you to the winner of the 2021 ACRM Launchpad competition, Braze Mobility’s Pooja Viswanathan. We take a close look at her technology making it easier & safer for wheelchair users who don’t have eyes in the back of their heads to navigate all sorts of spaces. Then we take a broader look at the systematic problems bogging down faster development of useful disability tech, and what can be done about it, with Rosalie Wang of the University of Toronto #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

The 40th Episode of the Archives of Physical Medicine’s RehabCast features Tiago Jesus and Christina Papadimitriou on the growth of the person centered rehabilitation model in practice - it’s about putting the person, not the patient, at the center of what we do, and doing it collaboratively. The episode also features Elizabeth Pasipanodya of the Santa Clara Valley medical center on her work teasing out a set of cognitive profiles seen in SCI rehabilitation, and determining how they relate to the client’s psychological well-being. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

In the 39th Episode of the Archives of Physical Medicine’s RehabCast, we sit down with Dr. Jeannette Lee who is Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy at San Francisco State University to discuss her study of a new technology to manage breast cancer related lymphedema. Learn about the promise and caveats of negative pressure massage for this tough clinical problem. Then we’ll talk with Justin Chee of the University of Toronto about his study of studies on multiple sclerosis gait parameters. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

In the 38th episode of the Archives of Physical Medicine’s RehabCast, we’re looking at the opioid epidemic through the lens of the spinal cord injury population with Dr. Maria DeBarge Dipiro of the Medical University of South Carolina. Then we'll talk with Dr. Mark Hirsch of Carolinas Rehabilitation about some of the surprising issues surrounding voting rights and access after traumatic brain injury. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

Episode 37 of the Archives of PM&R’s RehabCast features a formulation of integrated knowledge translation principles for use in spinal cord injury research, and an effort to succinctly explain aphasia and its primary struggles for the uninitiated. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

Episode 36 of the Archives of PM&R’s RehabCast features Irene Battel on her work delving into the challenging problem of Parkinson’s disease related dysphagia. Dr. Battle and colleagues in Ireland and Italy conducted a systematic review of biofeedback interventions for the problem. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

The April 2021 edition of the Archives of PM&R’s RehabCast features Linda Ehlich-Jones of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab who takes a close look at the realistic side of robotic exoskeleton technology as it exists in 2021 in the clinic and in the world, minus the hype. Then we talk with John Whyte, founding director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, who presents the work behind developing the Brain Injury Functional Outcome Measure (BI-FOM) and what this new measurement tool could mean for tracking ABI recoveries and interventions in the future. #RehabCast is the PM&R podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.