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.
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.
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.
Recovering Function is dedicated to the education of occupational and physical therapists and assistants who are working with adult clients with hemiplegia. Recovering Function has offered NDT (Bobath) courses since 1991, providing therapists and assistants with practical treatment ideas based on the NDT approach.
Recovering Function consistently provides state-of-the-art education that is current in the advances made in the fields of neuroscience, motor control and motor learning and in the understanding of bio-mechanical laws influencing components of movement. The courses address adult clients with hemiplegia in every setting including the acute hospital, rehab center, skilled nursing facility, outpatient clinic, and the home. The emphasis in Recovering Function courses is on “getting results faster” for your clients while providing you with the highest quality of instruction.
The “hands-on” courses offered by Recovering Function provide you with problem-solving strategies and manual cues based on the principles of NDT for your adult clients with hemiplegia. You will also learn how to write achievable, reimbursable, discipline specific individualized functional outcomes for all systems including Medicare, managed care, and private insurers. Recovering Function’s certification course offers you the unique experience of learning how to examine, assess, and treat the featured client, progressing from the initial interview to the client's achievement of individualized functional outcomes.
Join a Recovering Function course for a great learning experience. It is exciting when you realize the results that can be gained for your adult clients with hemiplegia through the use of problem-solving strategies and manual cues using the NDT approach!
Cathy Runyan, OTR/L, has over 25 years experience treating adult clients with hemiplegia in various settings including the acute hospital, rehab center, skilled nursing facility, outpatient clinic, and the home. She is recognized nationally as an expert in the treatment of adult clients with hemiplegia and has taught more than 1,000 Recovering Function NDT introductory, advanced, and certification courses throughout the United States. Among her other career achievements are guest lecturer at San Jose State University, university textbook author, and NDTA Coordinator Instructor. Cathy is the creator of the RPSFTM, a step by step framework of problem-solving strategies and manual cues built upon the core principles of NDT for assessing potential and individualizing functional outcomes when implementing interventions for adults with hemiplegia.
Cathy has dedicated her professional career to the NDT (Bobath) approach when working with adult clients with hemiplegia. Her goal is to provide you with a learning experience that will help your adult clients with hemiplegia achieve their full potential for recovery.