This course will describe the Ranchos Los Amigos levels of cognitive function and how these may impact therapy interventions in each stage. Clinical strategies to help manage behaviors will be delineated along with progressions of therapeutic intervention to support function as individuals progress through the various stages of recovery from brain injury.
Live Webinar
Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 6:00 pm EDTUnder Review: AOTA/0.2 - Application has been made to the American Occupational Therapy Association's (AOTA's) Approved Provider Program.
Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to describe traumatic versus non-traumatic brain injury etiologies.
- After this course, participants will be able to explain hypotheses on functional deficits and impairments that may be present, given a specific location of brain injury.
- After this course, participants will be able to identify appropriate strategies for engaging individuals at various stages of recovery based on their Ranchos Los Amigos Level of Cognitive Function.
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction and review of learning outcomes |
| 5-30 Minutes | Traumatic vs non-traumatic and location of lesions |
| 30-75 Minutes | Ranchos los Amigos stages I-X and strategies of treatment in these phases |
| 75-100 Minutes | Aerobic benefits to cognitive function in brain injury |
| 100-115 Minutes | Special considerations in this population for treatment approaches and interventions |
| 115-120 Minutes | Summary; Q&A |
Presented By
Christina Voigtmann
PT, DPT, NCS
Crissy (Christina) Voigtmann is Board-Certified in Neurologic Physical Therapy and earned her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in 2014. Dr. Voigtmann is a research physical therapist in the Locomotor Recovery Lab at Indiana University and also provides clinical treatment in an outpatient neurologic interdisciplinary clinic. She delivers protocols for multiple NIH-funded randomized controlled trials focused on examining the impact of intensity on locomotor recovery in neurologic populations (stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis). Additionally, she is pursuing a degree in the Doctor of Health Sciences program at the University of Indianapolis. Her current research investigates how intervention frequency influences walking outcomes in chronic stroke survivors.
Previously, she served as the locomotor clinical specialist at the Orlando Health Institute for Advanced Rehabilitation, where she led initiatives to standardize outcome measure use and deliver high-intensity gait training to neurologic patients in inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Voigtmann has also contributed as a certified clinical instructor and adjunct faculty at the University of Central Florida College of Health Professions and Sciences and the neurologic physical therapy residency program. In 2020, she received the Florida Physical Therapy Association’s Award for Clinical Excellence.
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Financial: Christina Voigtmann has received an honorarium for presenting this course.
Non-financial: Christina Voigtmann is an appraiser for Clinical Practice Guideline Core Outcomes with APTA.
Sponsor Disclosure: This Course is presented by OccupationalTherapy.com, a Continued site.
Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.
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