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Dustin Grooms
PhD, ATC, CSCS
Dustin Grooms, PhD, ATC, CSCS, is a professor in the Division of Physical Therapy at Ohio University specializing in orthopedics and neuroscience. Dr. Grooms received his doctorate from the Ohio State University in health and rehabilitation sciences in 2015, with a focus on neuroscience and biomechanics. Before pursuing doctoral studies, Dr. Grooms was an athletic trainer, strength coach, and instructor at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, and completed a master's degree from the University of Virginia in kinesiology, an internship with the Cincinnati Bengals, and a bachelor's degree from Northern Kentucky University in athletic training and mathematics. His current research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Defense to better understand how the brain and movement mechanics change after musculoskeletal injury and develop therapy breakthroughs to improve patient function via neuroplasticity.
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Browse Course CatalogACL Rehabilitation: Motor Learning Strategies for Adaptive Neuroplasticity (Recorded Webinar)
Presented by Dustin Grooms, PhD, ATC, CSCS
ACL Rehabilitation: Motor Learning Strategies for Adaptive Neuroplasticity (Recorded Webinar)
This course is a recording of a previously hosted live webinar event. Polling and question submission features are not available for this recording. Format and structure may differ from those of standard MedBridge courses.
This webinar will provide an overview of how the brain changes after ACL injury and how clinicians can address those changes to improve their patient outcomes. While the purpose of rehabilitation is ultimately to restore or enable optimal movement capacity, typical rehabilitation focuses on physical capacity (strength, range of motion) and not the transition of those attributes to coordinated movement under a variety of conditions. The missing links are the utilization of best practices in motor learning to improve retention, and transfer of movement coordination strategies to sport. This webinar will provide theoretical and applicable foundations for the design of augmented rehabilitation that both targets physical capacity and prepares patients for the movement coordination demands of sport.
Learning Objectives
- Link the neuroplasticity after ACL injury with sensorimotor compensations
- Apply motor learning principles
- Examine patient motor coordination retention and transfer
- Create augmented therapy approaches that integrate motor learning and cognitive principles
Therapeutic Neural Correlates of Motor Learning
Presented by Dustin Grooms, PhD, ATC, CSCS
Therapeutic Neural Correlates of Motor Learning
Neuroplasticity, or the ability of the nervous system to be plastic (change), is the gateway to patient recovery and optimizing functional capacity. The treatment of everything from ankle sprains to spinal cord injury requires inducing positive, adaptive neuroplasticity. This course will briefly address the foundational and theoretical knowledge related to key brain anatomy for motor control and learning, with an extended focus on how therapy can induce adaptive plasticity to restore patient function. Everything the clinician does, from what feedback they give and how it is delivered to new technologies like virtual reality, will be explored to maximize patient functional recovery.
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Dec 2, 2023
ACL Rehabilitation Summit: Session 2
Presented by Robert J. Butler, Dustin Grooms, Kyle Matsel, and Phil Plisky
No Recording Available