Online Continuing Education Courses

Poststroke Complications and Their Treatment

• Become familiar with secondary ways to prevent stroke by examining a variety of risk factors and listing ways that each can be managed
• Examine and analyze cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health to prevent deconditioning after stroke
• Outline 3 strategies for designing exercise programs in stroke survivors
• Summarize and describe at least 5 medical complications after stroke
• Understand the physiology of spasticity after stroke and examine 3 ways to measure it
• Describe 3 ways of managing spasticity after stroke and the characteristics of each intervention
• Outline musculoskeletal complications after stroke and examine characteristics of pain, and common shoulder conditions after stroke