Neurorehabilitation

The life of all licensed health care professionals includes the need for annual continuing education credits. It’s part of staying up to date. We love helping educate people in the brain injury and stroke community. So Pate is frequently out in the community visiting local hospitals to provide educational talks that qualify as CEUs (continuing […]

  What’s a therapeutic chili cook off? A fun chili tasting that’s an opportunity to to help people with brain injury work on their speech, language, motor and cognitive skills. People have to eat anyway, so why not make it delicious and therapeutic? Brinlee Creek Ranch’s recent chili cook off was a creatively complex activity.

Two Pate ranch horseriding residents took part in this year’s Fort Worth Chisholm Challenge riding competition at John Justin Arena at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth’s cultural district. The annual horse show is for people with disabilities and draws a huge crowd of supporters every year. It’s a chance for riders to

Pate physical therapists Drs. Jenna and Jessica Yeager recently presented a tape gait training study at the International Brain Injury Association’s World Congress in New Orleans. The Yeagers’ research demonstrates a simple yet effective intervention for post-stroke patients they adapted from treatments known to improve walking in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Walking impairments are common

Pate therapists recently presented a driver rehabilitation class at the American Occupational Therapy Association’s national conference in Philadelphia. Occupational therapists Jaimee Perea and Amanda Hoelscher of Pate’s Whitley Place taught the hour long driver rehabilitation class that covered clinical aspects of driving after an acquired brain injury, including on and off road assessment, training, and

Patient teachers. What better way to prepare for your return to life than teaching others your expert knowledge? Pate therapists at Whitley Place in the Fort Worth area encourage patients to teach classes for their peers that allow them to share their unique talents and life experience. Every person who begins brain injury rehabilitation is

They said he wouldn’t walk again. Here’s what happened…   What can rehab do? Incredible things. Let’s check in with someone who knows a thing or two about that. Matt’s walk after brain injury is nothing short of amazing. Matt spent a month in a coma after a near-lethal car wreck. He was ejected from

How can you crochet after stroke when you only have the use of one hand? Angie, a physical therapist at our Dallas location, heard her patient dearly loved to crochet, but it was impossible to do after her stroke. The woman’s stroke had affected her on one side (which is very common) and she could

Watch exoskeletons in action! Here’s the latest technology we took for a test drive…it’s called a robotic exoskeleton. This machine actually facilitates walking for people who cannot walk. After an acquired brain injury, it is common to have gait problems. Individuals have to relearn walking skills which can be a difficult and lengthy process. But

Decorating medical walkers is a great idea that turns this everyday mobility tool into a form of art and positivity. Many patients at Pate decorate and embellish their mobility equipment after seeing one person do it. The idea  caught on quickly. It’s a way to express themselves and it brings a smile to people around