Welcome to PARAS
This website provides detailed training and tools for the delivery of PARAS within different stroke services.
The PARAS programme is designed to be delivered as part of current stroke rehabilitation and to be used flexibly around the needs of individual patients and stroke services.
The training has been designed to fit around your clinical demands. You can pause and re-watch parts of the videos and related tools can be found next to each video. For guidance the initial training will take approximately two hours. After delivering PARAS, you can refer back to the training and use the reflection and evaluation to evaluate your progress and development needs.
After completing this training and trialling PARAS in practice, Sarah and the PARAS team would like to know your thoughts.
Please complete our evaluation so we can understand if we need to make any further adjustments to PARAS.
About the PARAS development team
Dr Sarah Moore
Sarah Moore is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at Northumbria University. Her clinical experience as a physiotherapist led to a passion to research and develop interventions to target stroke rehabilitation.
Sarah completed a PhD which explored the impact of exercise on metabolism, function and quality of life after stroke and the exemplary results led to her being awarded a National Institute for Health Research Clinical Lectureship.
During the Lectureship, Sarah split her time between working clinically at Northumbria Healthcare and conducting research with the Stroke Research Group at Newcastle University.
It was also during this time that Sarah led the development and feasibility testing of Physical Activity Routines After Stroke (PARAS). Sarah has published over 20 peer reviewed papers in the field of physical activity and stroke and continues to promote the benefits of physiotherapy to improve patient recovery and long-term health.
Members of the PARAS development team:
- Professor Chris IM Price
- Dr Leah Avery
- Dr Darren Flynn
- Nina Hrisos
- Lucy Bednell
Welcome video
In this video, Dr Sarah Moore provides an overview of PARAS. Sarah describes that PARAS is a supported self management programme to enable stroke survivors to move more and sit less.
PARAS background
In this video, Sarah describes the research background and the theory informed systematic development of PARAS.
