Step Ahead: A Case-based Exploration of Cutting-edge and Traditional Interventions to Improve Walking Ability Using the RTSS Framework 1899

Thursday, October 30, 2025

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

Location: ROOM: Conference Room 4C >>> DIRECTIONS Fourth Floor >>> From the Main Elevator Bank, proceed left. Room 4C is at the end of the corridor, just beyond 4D

Presenter(s)

Andrew Packel, PT, NCS (he/him/his)

Locomotor Program Clinical Manager
Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation
Cheltenham, PA, United States

Slides Slides
Holly Paczan, PT, MPT, NCS

Therapy Manager
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Chicago, IL, United States
Gareth D. Jones, PhD

Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London, England, United Kingdom
Kristen Hohl, PT, DPT, NCS

Senior II Physical Therapist - Research
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Sue Ann Sisto, PT, MA, PhD, FACRM

Professor and Chair of Rehabilitation Science
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, United States

This session will discuss the current state of neurologic gait training, including a brief history, current principles of best practice, and evidence-based approaches. Additionally, we will discuss how clinicians and researchers can use the RTSS framework to inform clinical
decision making for gait interventions. Through several case-based discussions, we will highlight how the RTSS informed patient examination, impairment identification, and ultimately informed intervention selection. Furthermore, we will discuss how the RTSS framework may be utilized to help inform technology selection, application and progression.

Learning Objectives:

Explain how the components of the RTSS can be applied to interventions for gait.
Discuss how principles of the RTSS framework improve the precision of gait interventions.
Demonstrate how the RTSS framework can be utilized to drive improved clinical decision making in the area of gait training
Identify how use of technologies within gait training are considered as ingredients within the RTSS.