Task Specific Training

Here's a question I want you to sit with for a second.

If your patient's goal is to get up from a chair and walk to the kitchen on their own, how many times did they actually practice standing up from a chair and walking in your last session?Not traditional balance work. Not quad strengthening. Not a lateral weight shift on a foam pad. But Standing up from a chair and walking. The real task.

If you had to guess, would it be five? Ten? Fifty?

On today's episode, Annoushka Ranaraja talks about task-specific training: what it is, why it works, and how we can do a much better job of actually doing it.

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