Description and Objectives
This one-day pre-course will utlize a combination of didactics, free papers, point-counter-point debate, scientific posters and audience engagement to present, review and discuss evidence based pediatric SCI\D best practice, contemporary controversies on complex problems relevant to pediatric SCI\D, and outcomes of pediatric SCI\D on the child and caregivers.
- Describe the epidemiology of pediatric SCI|D amd discuss implications of regional trends and global variations
- Understand the differential diagnosis of non-traumatic, acquired pediatric SCI\D
- Describe treatment paradigms and evidenced based outcomes for non-traumatic and acquired SCI\D
- Understand the tenets and preliminary outcomes of body-weighted supported treadmill training in children
- Discuss the implication of pediatric SCI\D on informal caregiving, and identify potential interventions to support informal caregivers
- Introduce newly developed International SCI Basic Data Sets for pediatric caregiving, participation, education and 0-5 year olds
- Discuss the assessment, surgical technique, and outcomes of nerve transfers for restoration of upper limb
Featuring Invited Lectures
Dr. Bonne Lee
The Stephen M. Haley Memorial Lecture
Epidemiology of Pediatric SCI\D World-Wide
Dr. Peter New
The Newton C. McCollough Lecture
Pediatric Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Lesions
Andrea Behrman PhD
Keynote
Outcomes of Pediatric Body Weighted Supported Treadmill Training
The Howard H. Steel Course on Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury\Dysfunction Provided by the Steel Assembly, an Affiliate of the American Spinal Injury Association 2018 ISCoS Meeting Pre-Course Wednesday, September 12, 2018 | Sydney, Australia Chairs: MJ Mulcahey, PhD, OTR/L Kathy Zebracki, PhD Randal Betz, MD Lawrence Vogel, MD steelassembly.org Abstract Submission Open: December 1, 2017 Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018
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