@Sara_Issak

Physiotherapist (Neurorehab) @Epworth & PhD candidate @physiounimelb📚researching gait in FND🚶‍♀️

 Melbourne, Victoria
Joined November 2021
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Excited to share our latest paper on self-management in motor-FND! We explore how education, movement strategies, goal setting and graded activity can support confidence and recovery beyond therapy. doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2026.1…

Frontiers | Empowering recovery: the role of self-management in motor-functional neurological...

A Self-management refers to patients’ independent use of knowledge and skills to manage symptoms, maintain health, and respond to setbacks, both during and b...

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@ProsperRehab Posters at @Epworth 2026 Research Week evaluating the efficacy of outpatient rehabilitation programs for treating patients with functional neurological disorders (@Sara_Issak) and persisting post-concussive symptoms (Dr Bianca Fedele) #concussion #fnd #research
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New research study! 🎺 Can surgery or anaesthesia worsen/trigger FND? Please help Alex Lehn with this study if you are ✅18+ ✅ have a diagnosis of FND ✅ have had 1 or more procedures with general/local/regional anaesthetic/sedation Join here zurl.co/TOAJz
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Curious about how to better support patients with FND? Dr Harvey Jones and I are hosting an evidence-based workshop packed with practical tools, clinical insights, and real-world strategies you can use right away. We’d love for you to join us! trybooking.com/events/landin…

FND: Practical Management for Clinicians

Turn understanding into action. Join our intensive face-to-face workshop designed for clinicians, therapists, and healthcare professionals who work...

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Team📸 from @ProsperRehab's Interdisciplinary Management of Functional Neurological Disorder Course run in Melbourne 🇦🇺 overviewing clinical and research experience in #FND assessment and management @Sara_Issak @AniqueMuttiah @CBPsychAcademic #functionalneurologicaldisorder
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🆕📰 New Publication @Sara_Issak @ProsperRehab evaluating existing frameworks to classify #gait phenotypes among patients with functional gait disorder 💻 Read our paper here: movementdisorders.onlinelibr… @GavinWPhysio @NatFiniPhysio @GNielsen_Physio #prosperresearch #fnd #phenotype
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🆕📰 New Publication @ProsperRehab Researcher-PhD Candidate @Sara_Issak evaluating longitudinal gait changes in functional neurological disorder and associated symptoms 🖱️ Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @GavinWPhysio @NatFiniPhysio @GNielsen_Physio #prosperresearch #FND #FGD
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I’m very pleased to share the third paper from my PhD program investigating longitudinal gait changes in people with functional neurological disorder🚶🏽#FND @GavinWPhysio @NatFiniPhysio Glenn Nielsen, Richard Kanaan doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores…
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📸🎙️Photos incoming @ProsperRehab Researchers at @apaphysio 2025 scientific conference, presenting on outcomes in functional neurological disorder, lower-limb muscle-tendon surgery, traumatic brain injury, and spasticity management #APASC25 #prosperresearch #tbi #fnd #spasticity
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📸 Our @ProsperRehab Team @apaphysio scientific conference and ePoster session 📰📎Find Jack Beard's manuscript here on postural alignment: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #APASC25 #prosperresearch #acquiredbraininjury #australianphysiotherapyassociation #physiotherapy #Adelaide
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📸 @ProsperRehab Researchers presenting clinical research findings this week at the @apaphysio scientific conference with the theme of leading the physiotherapy evolution 🔬📰 #APASC25 #Adelaide #physiotherapy #prosperresearch
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📰 Incoming... Prosper Researcher Posters at Epworth Research Week 2025, displaying a range of research, on stroke-integrated cardiac rehabilitation, strength testing, gait changes in functional neurological disorder and multi-trauma rehabilitation @TashMachado @Sara_Issak
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Excited to share a new study led by @Sara_Issak on symptoms in those with functional gait disorder and the impact on health domains. See the main findings below. Full paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…… #prosperresearch #FND #FGD #FNDaware
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Happy to share paper 2 from my PhD program investigating the motor and nonmotor symptoms in functional gait disorder🚶🏽#FND #FGD doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70208 @GavinWPhysio @NatFiniPhysio @GNielsen_Physio @Richard_Kanaan

Self‐Reported Motor and Non‐Motor Symptoms in People With Functional Gait Disorder: A Cross‐Secti...

Background Functional gait disorder is a common presentation of functional neurological disorder. Altered gait is the defining feature, along with a range of associated motor and nonmotor symptoms....

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Amazing start to the International Neuropsychiatry Association Congress with the CARE #FND symposium. Highlights below. Privileged and grateful to join Prof Kanaan in his keynote on #psychedelics in FND. @Sara_Issak @Tim_R_Nicholson. Excited for the next few days. #RANZCP – at Melbourne, Victoria
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📃Excited to share our protocol paper on the first study exploring #psilocybin and #motor function in healthy participants. This informs its research application in #FND and related #neuropsychiatry disorders. @GNielsen_Physio @Sara_Issak @drjrucker psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.…
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An animation summarising our trial results in plain English has been released youtu.be/pRgVoL9nFgo?si=Ij4z…
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Brilliant work @NeuroPhysioPro It’s so great to hear about the hyper acute FND clinic at NHNN and the positive outcomes found 👏🏼
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Enjoyed hearing Prof Staab talk about PPPD! #FNDS2024
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