The Role of the Foot in Postural Control, Locomotion and Body-weight Support Training
I just got back home from Helsinki where we had an intensive studies with Julie Vaughan-Graham from Canada . Julie is an Advanced Bobath Instructor in IBITA and also PhD in University of Toronto. She has her own practice in Toronto called Physio-Logic. She has done lots of research about clinical reasoning and she amazed the participants with it while analysing, making hypotheses and treating the patients. The course was a workshop and also an introduction to the Bobath Concept. The days included theoretical sessions, practical work and patient demo's by the instructor. The days were full of theory about the foot as an sensory and motor organ, the locomotion - a whole body activity, how the locomotion and postural control is controlled by neuronal mechanisms and of course how we can use body-weight support training as a tool in therapy. I'd like to share some highlights from the course by Julie Vaughan-Graham. The Bobath Concept is a living concept and one of the m...