Dr. Sara Cuccurullo and Dr. Talya Flemming: Investigating and Analyzing the Effect of a Comprehensive Stroke Recovery Program, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Release Date: 01/15/2025
Dr. Maria Janakos: Rehabilitation of Patients with a Concussion, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Maria Janakos is a sports medicine physiatrist at NYU and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She completed her residency at the University of Louisville and a Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. Her clinical interests include concussion management, orthobiologics, musculoskeletal ultrasound, and event coverage. Dr. Janakos is actively involved in medical education at NYU, teaching medical students, residents, and fellows through lectures, hands-on training, and mentorship. At NYU,...
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Dr. Maria Janakos: Rehabilitation of Patients with a Concussion, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Maria Janakos is a sports medicine physiatrist at NYU and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She completed her residency at the University of Louisville and a Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. Her clinical interests include concussion management, orthobiologics, musculoskeletal ultrasound, and event coverage. Dr. Janakos is actively involved in medical education at NYU, teaching medical students, residents, and fellows through lectures, hands-on training, and mentorship. At NYU,...
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Dr. Yingrong Zhu: 5th Annual Summit on Oncology Rehabilitation, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Zhu is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her clinical interests include the management of a range of symptoms associated with cancer and its treatment, including weakness, pain, neuropathy, and limited range of motion. Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to proactive healthcare engagement, working closely with a team to provide comprehensive care. Her practice emphasizes patient education, along with helping individuals understand the causes of their symptoms and the changes their bodies...
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Dr. Patricia Tan & Dr. Megan Conklin: Rehabilitation Care of Pediatric Patients, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Patricia Tan serves as Medical Director for Rusk Pediatrics Rehabilitation. Her Certification is from the American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She has been selected as a Fellow by the following organizations: American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; American Academy of Pediatrics; American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine; and the Association of Academic Physiatrists. Her medical degree is from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. Dr. Megan Conklin is Associate Director of...
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Dr. Patricia Tan & Dr. Megan Conklin: Rehabilitation Care of Pediatric Patients, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Patricia Tan serves as Medical Director for Rusk Pediatrics Rehabilitation. Her Certification is from the American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She has been selected as a Fellow by the following organizations: American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; American Academy of Pediatrics; American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine; and the Association of Academic Physiatrists. Her medical degree is from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. Dr. Megan Conklin is Associate Director of...
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Dr. Ira Rashbaum & Dr. Samuel Mann: Role of Emotions in the Onset of Physical Health Problems, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Ira Rashbaum specializes in mind–body care and treatment of patients who have tension myoneural syndrome, previously known as tension myositis syndrome, a condition that causes pain and symptoms associated with tension and stress factors. His expertise is in diagnosing and treating individuals who have psychosomatic pain disorders. He has an extensive list of publications, national meeting presentations, and media appearances. As study guide committee chairperson of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, he led a project that compiled information on...
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Dr. Ira Rashbaum & Dr. Samuel Mann: Role of Emotions in the Onset of Physical Health Problems, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Ira Rashbaum specializes in mind–body care and treatment of patients who have tension myoneural syndrome, previously known as tension myositis syndrome, a condition that causes pain and symptoms associated with tension and stress factors. His expertise is in diagnosing and treating individuals who have psychosomatic pain disorders. He has an extensive list of publications, national meeting presentations, and media appearances. As study guide committee chairperson of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, he led a project that compiled information on advances...
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Dr. Ronald (James) Cotton Grand Rounds: Opportunities of AI Powered Gait Analysis for Rehabilitation, Part 2
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Ronald (James) Cotton who is an electrical engineer, neuroscientist, and physiatrist working as a physician scientist at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, and assistant professor in the Northwestern University Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. We have this one paper where we can use diffusion models and generate a bunch of probabilistic samples of movements and they constrain them by what we see in the cameras and have shown that we can actually estimate the confidence and the uncertainty in a reliable way. He indicated that we can use something called the...
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Dr. Ronald (James) Cotton Grand Rounds: Opportunities of AI Powered Gait Analysis for Rehabilitation, Part 1
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Ronald (James) Cotton who is an electrical engineer, neuroscientist, and physiatrist working as a physician scientist at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, and assistant professor in the Northwestern University Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. PART 1 All of us probably believe and understand that how someone moves and walks is hugely informative. People are exuding all this information about their health status, but we don't measure it and obviously a core treatment of rehabilitation is how people move. We don't actually routinely measure that and the reason is that we need...
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400th Rusk Rehabilitation Podcast Anniversary: Dr Steven Flanagan, Part 3
RUSK Insights on Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Steven Flanagan, a nationally renowned expert in the field of traumatic brain injury (TBI), has worked at the Rusk Rehabilitation Institute at NYU Langone Health since 2008. He serves as the Howard A. Rusk Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. A former President of the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R), he is certified by the American Board of PM&R (Brain Injury Medicine). A graduate of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey,...
info_outlineThe introduction is done by Dr. Steven Flanagan, Chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Health.
Sara Cuccurullo MD is Professor and Chairman, Residency Program Director in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Rutgers- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Medical Director, VP at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute; and Physician in Chief of HMH Rehabilitation Care Transformation Services
Talya Flemming MD is Medical Director: Stroke Recovery Program, Post-COVID Rehabilitation Program, Aftercare Program ABMS, Brain Injury Medicine Certified JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinical Associate Professor, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Core Associate Professor, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine.
Part 1
Dr. Cuccurullo began by discussing their stroke recovery program, specifically investigating and analyzing the effects of a comprehensive initiative on all-cause mortality, function, and readmissions. She listed the learning objectives for today’s grand round presentation. Strokes are the number one admission in their inpatient rehab facility. Twenty-two percent of their patients comply with going to the facility. Their patients have a finite resource for Medicare once they leave inpatient or the acute care setting. Payment caps compromise the ability to have outpatient therapies that prevent them from having a full recovery. Dr. Flemming pointed out that there is an overlap with patients who have neurologic disease after stroke as well as patients who have cardiac disease. So, they designed their program to combine both elements of neurorehabilitation and a modified cardiac rehabilitation program, which starts with an outpatient visit with a stroke physiatrist. Common challenges that need to be addressed are patients with: weakness on their one side versus the other, cognitive or attention deficits, poor safety awareness, and post-stroke fatigue. They decided that it would be important to collect medical and functional outcome data to see if the program could affect hospital readmissions, the recurrence of stroke, and overall mortality.