Help 4 HD News Channel with Dr. Stuart Blatt PT

MONDAY, MAY 29 - 2012, 3:30 pm PST/6:30 pm EST Stuart Blatt, MA. PT, Ph.D, from Howell MI, is a physical therapist with 25 years of clinical experience, treating persons with various neurological injuries. Dr. Blatt received his doctoral degree from Michigan State University in the area of Adult Learning. He is currently self employed as a physical therapist in his own company called Therapists on the Move which is a mobile outpatient clinic serving people with progressive neurological diseases (like Parkinson’s Huntington’s and MS). He is also the CEO and founder of A.S.C.E.N.D (Always Striving to Create Environments which Normalize Disabilities), a not for profit organization designed to promote clinically based research and a greater understanding of the care of people with progressive neurological diseases, through non-traditional programs. Dr. Blatt speaks nationally and within the state of Michigan on the care of person’s with Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. Dr. Blatt has taught clinical neurology and patient management classes for six years in the Physical Therapy Department at the University of Michigan-Flint. Topics for discussion Exercise and HD HD Camp: A mini rehab retreat Advocacy programs for people with HD