Total Credits: 1.25 including 1.25 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)
** Please note this program was featured in OPSC's 35th Annual Fall Conference, CME by the Bay 2024, held in Monterey, California. If you attended this event in person or purchased the digital edition, you will not qualify for CME credits by participating in the program. **
Stroke is a leading cause of serious long-term disability in the United States,1 a devastating disease some fear greater than death. Many survivors have incomplete recovery and continue to have difficulty with cognition, mood, language, strength, and pain. Five years after a stroke, one-third may remain disabled and by 15 years, nearly 50% continue with persistent disability with loss in quality-of-life. Musculoskeletal dysfunction such as poor mobility, shoulder pain, and spasticity contribute substantially to survivor morbidity. Traditional stroke outcome measures assess an individual’s performance abilities (e.g. Barthel Index) while others demonstrate ones’ degree of independence (e.g. modified Rankin Scale, mRS). However, the failure to include patient perspectives, specifically their health-related quality of life: HRQol, as a measure of acceptable outcomes, continues to be a significant limitation of these tools. Furthermore, these measurements do not address key aspects of potential deficit (accessory motions: component and joint play) with the resultant disproportion of systemic available motion, that may compromise musculoskeletal economy.
Disclosures: Research Funding: American Osteopathic Association (SOMADC-AC Study)
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| Complementing Stroke Recovery with Osteopathic Care (2.9 MB) | 73 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Alan Yee, DO, is a Vascular Neurologist and Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of California Davis School of Medicine. He received his osteopathic medical degree from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed residencies in Internal Medicine and Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic, respectively, followed by fellowship training in Neurocritical Care and Stroke at the University of California San Francisco. He serves as the Associate Program Director for the Neurology Residency and Vascular Neurology fellowship programs.
As a core medical educator, he developed interprofessional and post-graduate training curricula to improve neurological care among health professionals. Dr. Yee’s previous research focused on neurologic prognostication in patients with critical brain disease. His current research efforts focus on neurologic medical education, osteopathic examination rater reliability, and the impact of musculoskeletal health (e.g., somatic dysfunction) on quality-of-life after stroke.