• Architecture
    • Recovering Function
      Tiered NDT Curriculum
      Develop NDT skills at your own pace
    • Recovering Function
      RPSFTM Framework
      A Step-by-Step Problem Solving Framework
      for client interventions
    • Recovering Function
      Webinars and Mentoring Program
      Continue to build your NDT skills online
      Get help for your current client interventions
    Recovering Function
    Tiered NDT Curriculum
    Develop NDT skills at your own pace

    Recovering Function’s tiered Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) curriculum allows you to develop skills at your own pace by progressively alternating each tier’s course work with the application of learned skills on the job.


    Recovering Function
    RPSFTM Framework
    A Step by Step Problem-Solving Framework
    for Client Interventions

    Built upon the core principles of NDT the RPSF™ is a step by step framework of problem-solving strategies and manual cues for assessing potential and individualizing functional outcomes when implementing interventions for adult clients with hemiplegia.


    Recovering Function
    Webinars and Mentoring Program
    Continue to build your NDT skills online
    Get help for your current client interventions

    Tiered Curriculum webinars and mentoring sessions allow therapists and assistants to continue building skills between courses as well as request help with clients they are currently treating at work.

  • Courses
    • Recovering Function
      Tiered NDT Curriculum
      Develop NDT skills at your own pace
      Tier-C
      Certification
      Implementing Interventions
    • Tier-A
      Advanced Training
      Clinical Reasoning and Manual Cues
    • Tier-I
      Introduction
      NDT Core Principles
    Tier-C
    Certification
    Implementing
    Interventions
    Recovering Function
    Tiered NDT Curriculum
    Develop NDT skills at your own pace

    Tier-A
    Advanced Training
    Clinical Reasoning
    and Manual Cues

    Tier-I
    Introduction
    NDT Core Principles
    Recovering Function
    for Adults with Hemiplegia
    Using the Principles of NDT
  • Webinars & Mentoring
    • Recovering Function
      Tiered Curriculum Webinars
      and Mentoring Program
      Build your NDT skills online
      Get help with your current client interventions
    • Tiered Curriculum Webinars
      Live, in-depth, online sessions
      to help you build your skills
    • Tiered Curriculum Mentoring ProgramTM
      Live, online sessions to help you with clients
      you are currently treating
    Recovering Function
    Tiered Curriculum Webinars
    and Mentoring Program
    Build your NDT skills online
    Get help with your current
    client interventions

    Tiered Curriculum
    Webinars
    Live, in-depth, online sessions
    to help you build your skills

    Tiered Curriculum
    Mentoring ProgramTM
    Live, online sessions
    to help you with clients
    you are currently treating
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Structured curriculum allows you to develop NDT skills at your own pace
Frameworks to guide you step by step
when examining, assessing, and treating your adult clients with hemiplegia
Online mentoring sessions to help you continue your evolution between courses
  • Achieving Functional Outcomes
  • Controlling the trunk posture
  • Functional outcomes for Stella
  • Facilitating the involved LE
  • Controlling the pre-lift off posture
  • Facilitating the pre-lift off posture
  • Controlling the 1/2 standing posture
  • Facilitating muscle activity
  • After one hour
  • Use of your hands
  • Facilitating a safe transfer
  • Moving to the touch down posture
  • Edna two person max assist
  • NDT is cost effective
  • ROM for lateral lumbar flexion
  • Facilitating the lateral lumbar flexors
  • Facilitate ROM for lumbar extension
  • Assessing Edna's lumbar extension
  • Facilitate ROM for scapular adduction
  • Increase adduction of Joe's scapula
  • ROM for scapular depression
  • Lengthen Edna's scapular elevators
  • Active weight bearing of the UE
  • Facilitate muscle activity
  • Edna actively weight bearing
  • Stepping up and lateral
  • Taking the first step in gait
  • Biomechanics of the trunk
  • Moving from supine to sitting
  • Stella moving from supine to sitting
  • Using the foot as part of the BOS
  • Increasing ROM of the ribcage
  • Increasing ROM for Edna's ribcage
  • Inhibit excessive muscle activity
  • Using body with arm
  • The Extended Trunk Posture
  • Practicing with your instructor
  • Applying what you have learned
  • Movement within functional activities
  • Increasing ROM for lumbar flexion
  • Facilitating shoulder joint flexion
  • Weight bearing with shoulder flexion
  • Handouts to reinforce your learning
  • Simultaneous labs
"It gave me a good foundation for treatment of stroke patients. I now have the tools for analyzing what the patient's problems are, and how I can assist with these problems. Now I have the knowledge to make my treatment plan more effective."

"I can incorporate this information to help my patients work more in midline, possibly get them independent in dressing, bathing. I can also help them get more awareness of the affected side."

"I really appreciated the hands-on and hand-over-hand demonstrations."

"This course not only reinforced learning by allowing immediate hands-on techniques after the lecture, but was also a lot of fun!"

"I feel like I have direction and meaning to take back and incorporate into treatment."

"I have truly enjoyed this course. I have learned significantly how to facilitate essential movements of the trunk to maximize function in a patient. Thank you."

"Now that I can begin to break down and analyze movement, not from individual muscles but from motor control, I can apply the knowledge with all of my CVA treatments."

"Awesome job. You rock. One day I hope to be as smart as you. It was a pleasure!!"

"Excellent course. Cathy is an amazing instructor. Her speed of giving the information was perfect. The amount of information in the packet allowing for more active listening and less writing was great"
  • Tiers
  • Frameworks
  • Mentoring
Recovering Function Frameworks
Built upon the core principes of NDT the RPSFTM is a step by step framework of problem-solving strategies and manual cues for assessing potential and individualizing functional outcomes when implementing interventions for adult clients with hemiplegia

How does a master clinician individualize functional outcomes for adult clients with hemiplegia? The RPSFTM gives you a step by step framework of problem-solving strategies and manual cues for assessing your client's potential for recovery -- those with less ability, those with more ability, those having a recent onset, or those experiencing a more chronic recovery -- leading you from the initial interview to the achievement and documenttion of reimbursable, discipline specific, individualized functional outcomes.

Equally important, the RPSFTM gives the team as a whole a common framework and vocabulary for coordinating activities, dialoguing about client potential and progress, and documenting individualized functional outcomes when implementing interventions for adult clients with hemiplegia.

"Cathy, after one day back at work, all I can say is “WOW!” Katherine and I returned to a nearly exclusive CVA caseload, which is very uncommon in our facility, but perfect timing! We were absolutely stunned at the results we were able to accomplish in an hour with each of our patients today using the techniques taught to us this past weekend! It was so exciting to see patients activating trunk muscles and triceps, etc., that were previously inactive and to see their faces light up with their new found muscle activity. We worked with one 89 year old woman today who has had an occipital stroke and is currently weaning off the ventilator. Upon initially sitting her at the edge of the bed she was in such posterior pelvic tilt that she couldn’t reach forward at all. After 50 minutes, she was able to achieve an anterior pelvic tilt and weight shift forward sufficiently to reach her hairbrush when placed 25 inches away – UNBELIEVABLE! Two other patients achieved a neutral pelvic tilt and went from max assist for balance at the edge of the bed to contact guard assist by the end of the treatment while maintaining weight bearing and tricep activation on the affected arm! You have made believers of us and we are so grateful for the new found knowledge and ability to individualize treatment plans for our patients and help maximize their potential during their time at our facility. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Develop NDT skills at your own pace
Individuals can gain competencies required for clinical ladders
Teams can establish a Tier-I, Tier-A, Tier-C team skills profile to maintain an effective peer mentoring structure
Recovering Function frameworks provide step by step problem-solving strategies and manual cues
Tiered Curriculum Webinars help you build on the skills you learned
Live WebQ&A's provide help with your questions between courses
WebConsultation's allow you to get live help with a current intervention
WebTeamConsultation's allow your team to bring the instructor into your gym for a live consultation during a client intervention