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Details:

Course Name: Spinal Cord Injury: Nuts and Bolts of Examination, Intervention and Wellness Planning 
Presenter: Kara Lee, PT, DPT, NCS 
Price: $130.00
Number of CCU’s / Contact Hours: 15
Target Audience: PT, PTA’s, OT’s, OTA’s and ATC
Included: One Link to Access the Entire Set of Videos, A Course Manual (e-mailed), Sign-in Sheet, Evaluation and Summary Sheet

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.

Topics:

Incidence and Etiology of Spinal Cord Injury, Medical complications related to Spinal Cord Injury, Anatomy of Spinal Cord Injury, Clinical Syndromes and Spinal Cord Injury levels and outcomes, Examination of the patient with Spinal Cord Injury, Seating and mobility after Spinal Cord Injury, The Shoulder after Spinal Cord Injury, Regenerative medicine, technology and clinical trials, Bed Mobility After Spinal Cord Injury, Transfers After Spinal Cord Injury, Gait After Spinal Cord Injury, Interventions and progressions, Modular options: seating and Mobility

Learning Objectives:

The ability to learn anatomy of spinal cord injury and clinical syndromes
Pair expected outcomes per level of neurologic injury with potential intervention objectives along the continuum of care.
Identify wellness considerations including aging with a spinal cord injury, shoulder protection, and evidence-based exercise recommendations.
To identify common seating and mobility considerations for the spinal cord injured population.
To learn examination of Spinal Cord Injury patients
Identify bed mobility and transfer techniques

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.