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RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine

RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine is a top podcast featuring interviews with faculty and staff of RUSK Rehabilitation as well as leaders from other rehabilitation programs around the country. These podcasts are being offered by RUSK, one of the top rehabilitation centers in the world. Your host for these interviews is Dr. Tom Elwood. He will take you behind the scenes to look at what is transpiring in the exciting world of rehabilitation research and clinical services through the eyes of those involved in making dynamic breakthroughs in health care.
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Oct 17, 2018

Dr. Estelle Gallo is a Clinical Specialist at the Rusk Rehabilitation NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center. She is a certified clinical specialist in Neurology from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties who specializes in adult neurological rehabilitation. She serves as a faculty member of the accredited physical therapy neurology residency program and holds a faculty position as a Research Assistant Professor in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department at NYU School of Medicine. She has received internal funding for her research. Dr. Gallo has published her work in several peer-reviewed journals as well as presented at both national and international conferences. Currently, she is conducting a feasibility and safety study on high level mobility training in patients with non-progressive acquired central neurological injuries.  She also serves as a member of the Locomotor Training Clinical Practice Guidelines Knowledge Translation Task Force for the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy. She received her doctorate degree from New York University. 

In this interview, Dr. Gallo discusses: the ability to run a short distance in the rehabilitation of patients with acquired brain injury; existing evidence to make recommendations about the examination and intervention for high level mobility and to facilitate a return to running; examination techniques and outcome measures that are used; objective criteria used to guide initiation of high-level mobility training; recent developments in clinical practice guidelines on outcome measures for the neurologic population; upcoming recommendations about locomotor training, research being done in the physical therapy department to test the feasibility and safety of high-level mobility training; and some key rehabilitation research topics in physical therapy and some emerging areas. 

 

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