• 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 RPSFâ„¢ 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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    • Download the complete course brochure
      or only a copy of the registration form
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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 Tiered Curriculum Webinars and Mentoring Program
Live, face-to-face, online offerings

Recovering Function has offered a full range of NDT courses since 1991. Therapists and assistants progressing through these courses in the Tiered Curriculum often ask how they can build upon the skills they learned in the courses, as well as request help with applying those skills for clients they treat at work. The Tiered Curriculum Webinars and the Tiered Curriculum Mentoring ProgramTM address this by offering live, face-to-face, online offerings for therapists and assistants who have completed the prerequisite Recovering Function courses.

Tiered Curriculum Webinars
Live, online in-depth sessions to help you build on the skills you learned so your clients achieve additional functional outcomes

Tier-I, Tier-A, and Tier-C therapists and assistants can attend Tiered Curriculum Webinars between courses to help them build on the skills they learned so their adult clients with hemiplegia can achieve additional functional outcomes.

Tiered Curriculum Mentoring ProgramTM
Live, online mentoring sessions to help you apply the skills you learned for clients you are currently treating
WebQ&ATM
Tier-I, Tier-A, and Tier-C therapists and assistants can attend question and answer sessions between courses to help them with questions they have about their current interventions for adult clients with hemiplegia.
RPSF WebConsultationTM
Tier-A, and Tier-C therapists can request instructor consultations to help them with questions they have about applying the RPSFTM during interventions for their adult clients with hemiplegia.
RPSF WebTeamConsultationTM
RPSFCCM OT/PT teams working at facilities that are standardizing on the RPSFTM can request instructor consultations for themselves and their team members to help them during live interventions for their adult clients with hemiplegia.
Schedules for these offerings are distributed via email. To receive additional information about them, therapists and assistants who have completed Part II or later can send an email to info@RecoveringFunction.com
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