• 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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    • Download the complete course brochure
      or only a copy of the registration form
      (the course brochure includes a copy
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Dedicated to the education of Occupational and Physical therapists and assistants working with adult clients with hemiplegia
Recovering Function
Providing Adult Hemiplegia Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) Courses for Occupational and Physical Therapists Since 1991
Hands-on courses provide you with problem-solving strategies and manual cues based on the principles of NDT
  • 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
"Thank you for all the documentation ideas to justify our skills to the insurers, especially Medicare. I enjoyed and learned a lot. Thank you."

"I appreciate the years of experience in different settings shared with us as therapists so that we can return to our positions making a bigger impact on the quality of our patients' lives."

"Thank you for your patience and time to teach and motivate us to become better therapists in our scope of practice."

"I appreciate the sample documentation in the slides, describing the patient's function in the activity and the potential for future activities."

"I loved your enthusiasm. Thank you for working so hard to bring scientific research to therapy."

"I really enjoyed this course. I hope to be able to go home and practice these techniques in preparation for Parts III and IV. Thank you for all the hands-on practice."

"The course instructor was extremely effective in relaying course materials, incorporating Medicare requirements. Reinforced skilled documentation needed."

"Thank you so much! Excited to use and share with my SLP team. Feel much safer with pt. mobility and my knowledge of improving their independence for my functional outcomes as a Speech Language Pathologist"

"Cathy, you are a phenomenal speaker and extremely knowledgeable! It has been a true pleasure taking parts I and II with you. I have already practiced some of what I have learned on family members and am eager to return to work and 'show off'. Your course has made me appreciate our profession even more and make me more of a skilled therapist. I cannot thank you enough."
Achieve functional outcomes for your clients who have hemiplegia

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.


Tel: 408.268.3691
Dedicated to the education of Occupational and Physical therapists and assistants working with adult clients with hemiplegia
'Hands-on' courses provide you with problem-solving strategies and manual cues based on the principles of NDT
When your clients are given the opportunity to practice the use of effective movement strategies requiring the involved side, they have the opportunity to change the lesioned side of the brain and to achieve individualized functional outcomes
Learn to analyze the components of movement required for the use of effective movement strategies, and manual cues for accessing them
Improve your problem-solving strategies for examination, assessment, and treatment
Learn procedures for documenting the need for skilled intervention as well as the reimbursable, individualized functional outcomes achieved
You will know what to expect and what to do with your adult clients with hemiplegia
Acquire practical, efficient problem-solving strategies, manual cues, and documentation procedures that you use can use immediately
The courses address adult clients with hemiplegia in every setting including the acute hospital, rehab center, skilled nursing facility, outpatient clinic, and the home