Brain and Body Rehabilitation

High Intensity Unloaded-Loaded-Unloaded (HULU) is a framework that lends itself nicely to PT, OT, and SLP in rehabilitation. By combining what we know about human decision-making, motivation, and predictive processing – therapists employing the HULU framework can expect to maximize engagement and may find that they can garner greater attention and intensity. By combining the phenomenon known as Post Activation Performance Enhancement (PAPE) with autonomy and (either) error augmentation, removal of assistance, or a brief stimulus of overtraining; therapists may realize greater motor performance to motor learning translation. 

The article introducing HULU was accepted for publication recently, and is now in its final version, to be released with DOI and open access soon, with hyperlink posted here in the coming days.