Therapist opportunity

[Bridget]

Please let your therapists know of the following opportunity:

The TASC Network Advanced Problem Solving Workshop
April 20 – 21, 2001
Karen Pape, MD and TASC Senior Instructors
Christine Egan, PT, MPH and Leslie McKibben, PT
Easter Seals DuPage - Infinitec West - Rosalie Dold Center for Children
830 S. Addison Avenue, Villa Park, IL 60181

Open to all TASC Trained Practitioners and Interested Professionals
The Advanced Program is new. Come and network with other TASC trained practitioners from around the country for a weekend in Chicago. If you are not yet a TASC practitioner and you have ever wondered about the TASC Network, this is the time to see what it is all about. Learn the TASC Life Span approach and when to consider TES, NMES and FES to achieve optimal results. Learn how to turn technology into kids’ stuff. The outcomes of Botulinum injections, Baclofen Pumps, Rhizotomy, and Multilevel Surgeries may be changed with a focussed training program. If you have a patient who improved less than you hoped, find out what to do next.

The program consists of four Mini-workshops. The cost is $75 per session or $250 for the entire program. Sorry, there are no discounts for partial attendance.
Call the TASC Network toll free line to register, 1-877-827-2242.

Saturday April 20

8:00 Registration
9:00 Session One - IMT Presentation
Laurie Lund graduated in 1988 from The Medical University of South Carolina in Physical Therapy. She is the Director of the Spinal Cord Research Department with CenterIMT in Bloomfield, CT. She will present an introduction to Integrated Manual Therapy. Laurie is one of the instructors trained by Sharon Weiselfish Giamatteo. There have been great developments from the early days of DCR in Bloomfield, CT. For this course, Laurie has agreed to teach and demonstrate some of the IMT techniques that are most applicable to pediatrics. This is going to be an exciting and valuable program that you'll be able to put to direct use in your practice.
10:30 Break
11:00 IMT Demonstration and Problem Solving Lab
See some techniques in action and learn the what, where, when, and why of integrating the IMT approach with your own program. Find out about the wide variety of available courses and enlarge the range and depth of consultants available to help your children.
12:00 Brown Bag Lunch and tour of Infinitec West
1:00 Session Two - Life Span Approach to the Rehabilitation of Cerebral Palsy
The presentation will provide a detailed approach to the management of pediatric hemiplegia. TES, NMES, FES, EMG Biofeedback, EMG Stim, Hybrid Orthotics and Forced Use Protocols will be presented as part of an integrated rehabilitation program that spans the first 20 years of life. You will learn why the treatments and technologies need to be matched to the most appropriate period of brain development. Learn how to use the right treatment at the right time to get the best result. We chose Hemiplegia for the sample discussion to illustrate issues that affect the disciplines of PT, OT and Speech.
2:30 Break
3:00 Cerebral Palsy Problem Solving Lab
This session will discuss children with all forms of cerebral palsy. You'll learn how to apply the principles of the Life Span approach to diplegia, quadriplegia, and triplegia. Even without a clear diagnosis, this approach provides a step-by-step program that gets results. This part of the program will include the "when and why" of Baclofen Pumps and Rhizotomy for optimizing outcomes. Karen and the TASC Instructors will discuss your clients' videotapes at an interactive problem-solving lab. Using these tapes, they will demonstrate how to pick the key priorities to achieve the maximum function in the shortest possible time. Bring your challenges so the team can offer input.

Night Out in Chicago with the TASC Network - Organized by Christine Egan

Sunday, April 21, 2002

8:00 Registration
8:30 Session Three - The One-Year Plan for Surgery
Most children with a neurologic problem have one or more surgical interventions during childhood and/or adolescence. Often the response to the decision for surgery is to decrease therapy and let the child "take it easy" until after the surgery. This means the child arrives for surgery in worse shape than when last seen by the surgeon. Whether it is orthopedic surgery or a spasticity reducing intervention, the principles are the same. Using the ONE-YEAR PLAN principles, write the "game plan" for the pre-surgery run up, the acute rehabilitation, and the 6 to 7 month post-surgery programs to maximize the surgical result. Help your families approach these important events with realistic expectations and goals.
10:00 Break
10:30 Surgical Problem Solving Lab
Whatever the surgical procedure, the planning includes the same components. The demonstration lab will show how gravity eliminating techniques, music, and treadmills work. Learn fast and efficient ways to achieve cardiovascular conditioning pre-surgery and gait re-training post-surgery. Bring your case summaries and videotapes to the Problem Solving Lab with Karen and the experienced TASC Instructors.
12:00 Pizza Lunch and equipment demonstrations
1:00 Session Four - Life Span Approach to BPI
The presentation will provide a detailed approach to the management of pediatric brachial plexus injury. TES, NMES, FES, EMG Biofeedback, EMG Stim, and Forced Use Protocols will be presented as part of an integrated program. Learn why taping and splinting can be crucial to optimum recovery. Each therapy intervention and technology needs to be matched to the stage of the regenerating nerve. If you have a child who keeps doing it the "wrong" way even though they can manage the "right" way with help, … this program is what you need. Developmental apraxia is the cause of these persistent habitual movements that mask the amount of actual nerve recovery. Learn how to reverse this process in innovative ways, even Botox.
2:30 Break
3:00 BPI Problem Solving Lab
This lab, with your client videotapes, will bring it together and make sense of it all. Although BPI is one of the most common nerve injuries, few therapists have a large number of children with this problem. Leslie McKibben will demonstrate some of the BPI specific "Tricks of the Trade" to help maximize recovery. Watching the videos together gives you years of experience in just a few hours.
4:00 Final Q&A Session
4:30 Workshop Ends

[Kristie]

What is TASC trained?
Kristie

[Bridget]

TACS = Technology Assisted Self Care

[Bridget]

oops, sorry I meant "TASC"