A Neuro Physio Podcast: Caitlin Reid

Caitlin Reid

“Give your patients some control in their life, give them some choice.”

1.30 – Introduction
1.49 – Career pathway
Caitlin’s Story
2.56 – Brain injury story
5.20 – Being in PTA
6.00 – Sharing experience for good
Lessons Learned
7.20 – Empowering your patients
9.29 – Physios as motivators and coaches – adapting language
14.06 – Uncertainty in rehab and recovery
15.42 – Dealing with dense hemiplegia
16.53 – Therapy scheduling, fatigue
19.44 – Being a young brain injury survivor
20.44 – Benefits of rehab outdoors
22.11 – Therapy content – Goals-based intervention.
24.02 – Setting targets and PBs
24.47 – Principles of neuroplasticity in Caitlin’s rehab
28.20 – CIMT + Body Schema
30.08 – Motor imagery, Mirror therapy & Returning to netball
Key Messages
33.31 – Caitlin’s key message – empowerment
34.25 – What Caitlin has changed in her practice

Papers and References

Principles of Neuroplasticity paper

Principles of Experience-Dependent Neural Plasticity