Description

Details:

Course Name: Spinal Cord Injury: Nuts and Bolts of Examination, Intervention and Wellness Planning
Presenter: Kara Lee, PT, DPT, NCS
Dates: Saturday, October 22 – Sunday, October 23, 2016
Tuition: $325.00 – Early Registration
$375.00 – After Saturday, October 8, 2016
Location: West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Gym (Small or Large)
701 Cypress
Sulphur, LA 70668
Number of CCU’s / Contact Hours: 15
Target Audience: PT, PTA’s, OT’s, OTA’s and ATC

Course Description:

This course will introduce practitioners to the basics of PT examinations – including International Standards for Neurologic Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSCI) Exam and a variety of outcomes measures.  Participants will be able to pair expected outcomes per level of neurologic injury with potential intervention objectives along the continuum of care and identify wellness considerations including aging with a spinal cord injury, shoulder protection, and evidence-based exercise recommendation and  to identify common seating and mobility considerations for the spinal cord injured population.

Schedule:

Day One – Saturday, October 22, 2016

8:00 – 10:00 am Incidence and Etiology of Spinal Cord Injury
10:00 -10:15 am Break
10:15 – 12:00 n   Medical complications related to Spinal Cord Injury
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm   Anatomy of Spinal Cord Injury, Clinical syndromes and
Spinal Cord Injury levels and outcomes
3:00 – 3:15 pm   Break
3:15 – 5:00 pm    Examination of the patient with Spinal Cord Injury
5:00 pm End of Day One

Day Two – Sunday, October 23, 2015

8:00 – 9:00 am     Seating and mobility after Spinal Cord Injury
9:00 – 9:30 am     The Shoulder after Spinal Cord Injury
9:30 – 10:00 am   Regenerative medicine, technology and clinical trials
10:00 – 10:15 am Break
10:15 – 11:00 am  Bed mobility lab
11:00 – 12:00 n     Transfers lab
12:00 – 1:00 pm    Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 pm      Gait Lab
2:00 – 4:00 pm      Interventions and progressions
4:00 – 5:00 pm      Modular options: seating and mobility
5:00 pm End of Day Two and End of Course

Learning Objectives:

 

Presenter: Kara Lee, PT, DPT, NCS

Kara Lee graduated from the University of Kentucky PT program with a Master’s in PT in 1997, then returned for her DPT in 2007.  She currently serves as the Associate Director of Clinical Education for the University of Kentucky Physical Therapy (UKPT) program, Lexington KY, where she joined the faculty at UK in 2013. Her clinical background is in treatment of people with spinal cord injuries and other neurological conditions, as well as pediatrics. She has served as lead lecturer and lab instructor in the UK PT course in treatment of people with spinal cord injury for 8 years. Additionally, she serves in the Normal Pressure Hydrocephaly Clinic in the Kentucky Neurologic Institute. In 2015, she earned her Neurologic Certified Specialist (NCS) certification from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties.