Instructor Bio:
Mary Beth Osborne PT, DPT, NCS earned her BS and doctorate in physical therapy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her area of clinical expertise is in adult neurologic rehabilitation including working with people following brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, and neurologic diseases. She has over 30 years of clinical experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Osborne has served as adjunct faculty at UNC Chapel Hill assisting with online and traditional classroom courses focusing on neurologic physical therapy and evidence based practice. She is currently working on the outpatient adult neurology team at Duke University Health in Durham, North Carolina and serves as the outpatient co-director for the neurologic physical therapy residency program.
Dr. Osborne is involved as a volunteer for the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association as a nominating committee member for the Residency and Fellowship Special Interest Group and the past chair of the Brain Injury Special Interest Group and served as a member of the practice committee. She serves as a Foundation Group committee member for the International Neurological Physiotherapy Association.
This course covers physical therapy patient management at the early stages following brain injury and for people in the disorders of consciousness phase of recovery. Common complications, outcome measures and interventions will be explored.…
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This course covers physical therapy management of people following brain injury in the rehabilitation phase after medical stability is achieved. Participants will be challenged to identify strategies to address cognitive and behavioral…
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This course follows physical therapy patient management after treatment, during the patient's return to the community following mild brain injury, or after recovery from the acute phase of more severe brain injury. Participants will…
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