This webinar explores how functional splinting can enhance upper extremity recovery after stroke by enabling movement, increasing task performance, and driving repetition. We’ll also connect these strategies to Paired VNS Therapy, highlighting how splinting can help maximize engagement and outcomes.

Topics Discussed

• Functional splinting to support active use of the UE post-stroke
• Clinical decision-making: when and why to splint
• Case examples of splint use in functional tasks
• Overview of Paired VNS Therapy
• Using splints to maximize repetitions during VNS therapy
• Q & A

Anne Maattala is an occupational therapist with over 20 years of experience, specializing in neurologic and orthopedic upper extremity and hand rehabilitation. She is an outpatient supervisor at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, in Malvern Pa. Anne is also an experienced clinical educator, and owner of Neuro Hand Lab, a continuing education platform, with courses focused on therapeutic management and splinting of the neurologically impaired upper extremity. Anne has also presented and contributed to curriculum development in special topics in neuro rehab, for OTD and OTA programs in the Philadelphia area. She has co-presented for a local Vivistim summit, on evidence-informed strategies to enhance upper extremity recovery in neurologic populations.

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