Avery Menaker and Faye Bronstein: High Intensity Training Across the Continuum.
Description
Avery Menaker is a senior occupational therapist at NYU Rusk Rehabilitation. She is certified as both a stroke rehabilitation specialist and a brain injury specialist. She co-leads an initiative at NYU to bring high intensity practice to patients participating in occupational therapy.
The following topics were among those discussed in the interview: how high intensity training differs from traditional therapy approaches and what its benefits are; kinds of patients for whom high intensity training is appropriate; research to support high intensity training; equipment needed for this intervention; what a typical high intensity treatment session looks like in physical therapy and occupational therapy; implementation challenges; whether high intensity training is done in every therapy clinic and if all therapists know about it; and contents of an NYU continuing education course on high intensity training that will be offered on May 17-18, 2025.
United States
