Training & Resources

Horizon’s Clinical Director, Karen Blagojevic, is a visiting lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University (BNU). Their degree programmes offer an innovative blended learning approach and purpose-built facilities, including well-equipped simulation clinics and rehabilitation teaching rooms.

Karen loves teaching at BNU and is passionate about the pursuit of clinical excellence and evidence-informed care, embracing new technologies to improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience.

The Bobath concept is the most widely used neuro-rehabilitation approach worldwide. This approach fits well with Horizon Rehabilitation’s core values – Be positive; Seek solutions; Work hard together – because it considers the impact of the neurological condition on the whole person within their individual context.

Karen and the Horizon team apply the Bobath Concept clinical reasoning framework (Michelson et al, 2019) when analysing a person’s movement in order to develop a bespoke treatment plan. The approach focuses on:

• Selective, functional movement
• Postural control, balance and stability
• The role of sensory information
• Hands-on approaches to influence how the nervous system can produce movement and become more efficient (neuroplasticity)
• Motor learning and application the current evidence base in the field Neuroscience for Movement

IBITA unites Instructors (Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists) worldwide, representing more than 255 members in 29 countries. It provides educational opportunities and the chance to collaborate with expert neurological therapists from all over the world, sharing ideas and updating our educational programmes for the benefit of people with neurological conditions.