Liesa Ritchie-Persaud's Top Tips and Tools for Treating Toe-Walking

News: 1 March 2018

A special request from Liesa

liesa@knowtochange.com

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Liesa is a pediatric physical therapist who is leading the field in treating idiopathic toe-walking. In this interview, Liesa gives us some amusingly honest insights into how she developed her skills and knowledge as well as where you can go to develop or progress your own clinical expertise in this area. Jam packed with advice and actionable tips for treating and assessing toe-walking, Liesa explains how she applies her learning's from autism to cerebral palsy.

How do you approach other professionals who might need a bit of up-skilling? What's the optimal dosing, timing and progression of treatment? Liesa covers this and much more in the interview.

Resources mentioned in the podcast are all listed below, as well as some handy time markers so you can jump straight to a topic of interest if you are short on time.

Enjoy!

Mindy

The Podcast: listen, enjoy, share ...

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1. Current and early experiences and influences (0.53)

2. Evidence Based vs Research Based practice (10.18)

3. Current Clinical Research in Toe-walking (10.57)

4. Mistakes therapists make about toe-walking (13.11)

5. Developing clinical skills after Liesa's course (15.25)

6. Teaching & courses (17.20)

6. Liesa's favorite resources for learning (20.18)

7. Developing your clinical skills - where to start and progress (22.23)

8. Side Passions (24.07)

9. Organizing courses (25.30)

10. Clinical Q&A