Early Mobilisation

Improve the delivery of early rehabilitation to stroke survivors.

This is a decision-making tool to assist physiotherapists deliver safe and effective evidence-based rehabilitation in acute settings. It consists of clinical reasoning flowcharts to enable effective decision making to select evidence-based training strategies that can be achieved in acute settings. Videos are used to illustrate the critical features needed to ensure safe and effective training.

The project was initiated by a group of Sydney-based physiotherapists working in acute and rehabilitation settings who were aware of the difficulties faced in providing effective therapy in acute rehabilitation settings where barriers can include: lack of stroke rehabilitation experience, low levels of staffing and equipment, and high levels of disability of stroke survivors.

Early rehab package group: Simone Dorsch, Rachael Fisher, Erika Day, Sarah Parker, Bronwyn Varettas, Victoria Arfaras, Laura King
Abby Wall, Alex Wagner, Sarah Adams, Doris Ng.

We would like to acknowledge and thank the stroke survivors who made this project possible by generously participating in the making of the videos. We would like to acknowledge and thank the Northern Sydney local health district and Sydney local health district for providing permission to film stroke survivors and allowing clinicians the time to be involved.