About

Background

Sarosh Ahmed started working on vagus nerve stimulation as an undergraduate in Dr. Michael Kilgard’s Cortical Plasticity Laboratory at the University of Texas at Dallas, where the question was whether pairing stimulation with movement could reorganize motor cortex. Fifteen years later she is asking a version of the same question about her own patients, and publishing the answer.

In between came a Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Angelo State University, a neurologic physical therapy residency at Nova Southeastern University and Pinecrest Rehabilitation Hospital, and board certification as a Clinical Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy. She has practiced across the continuum: neurologic ICU, medical and COVID ICU, and now outpatient neurologic rehabilitation at TIRR Memorial Hermann in The Woodlands, where she leads the interdisciplinary vagus nerve stimulation team and founded the clinic’s quality council.

Her clinical focus is spasticity and the upper motor neuron syndrome: tone assessment, orthotic and casting decisions, and coordinating rehabilitation around chemodenervation and intrathecal baclofen. She sits on the health system’s Spasticity and Associated Syndromes of Movement core group, leads its dystonia project, and drove the enterprise-wide rollout of the TWSTRS outcome measure into the Epic EMR.

Alongside the clinic she teaches. She was a founding core faculty member of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Sam Houston State University and lead syllabus writer for ten of its courses, has taught the accredited Certified Brain Injury Specialist course four times, and reviews for Physiotherapy Theory and Practice.

Areas of Practice

• Spasticity & upper motor neuron syndrome

  Tone assessment beyond the Modified Ashworth, orthotic and casting decisions, cervical dystonia and the TWSTRS, and coordinating rehabilitation around chemodenervation and intrathecal baclofen.

• Brain injury & stroke recovery

  Agitation and arousal management, paired vagus nerve stimulation for upper and lower extremity recovery in chronic stroke, and the handoffs across the continuum that decide long-term outcome.

• Vestibular rehabilitation & FND

  Unilateral vestibular hypofunction, complex presentations such as Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, and functional neurologic disorder including blepharospasm, dystonia, myoclonic tremor, and ataxia.

Memberships & Service

• 2026

  Steering Group Committee Leader

  APTA Frontiers in Rehabilitation Science, Research, and Technology (FiRST) Network

• 2019–Present

  Journal Reviewer

  Physiotherapy Theory and Practice

• 2017–Present

  Member, Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy

• 2015–Present

  Member, APTA & Texas Physical Therapy Association

• 2016–Present

  Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society