Understanding Obesity and Pain After Spinal Cord Injury Through Preclinical, Qualitative, and Epidemiologic Research #107

  TUE 1 NOV // 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM   Primary Content Focus: Spinal Cord Injury Secondary Content Focus: Pain Obesity and pain are two common phenomena after spinal cord injury (SCI); they are notorious for deleterious functioning and quality of life. This...

Neuropharmacology   #124

    MON, 31 OCT // 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus:  Crosscutting (Neuro-Pharmacology) Secondary Content Focus:  Brain Injury, Clinical practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP) This course surveys the basic principles of...

The Importance and Reality of Integrating Outcome Assessment in Clinical Practice  #74

  MON, 31 OCT // 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus:  Crosscutting Secondary Content Focus:  Clinical practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP) Determining which rehabilitation outcome measure to use is challenging. Some are...

Mobile Health Technologies and Chronic Disease Management: Applications in Rehabilitation #268

    MON, 31 OCT // 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus:  Crosscutting (chronic disease management using technology) Secondary Content Focus:  Technology (e.g., prosthetics/orthotics, robotics, assistive technology), Measurement Non-communicable diseases...

The Neurological Effect of Lenses and Puzzles on Brain Plasticity #119

    MON, 31 OCT // 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus:  Brain Injury Secondary Content Focus:  Neuroplasticity (includes neuroscience), Clinical practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP) This workshop teaches how the use of...

Integrating Feldenkrais® Concepts into Musculoskeletal and Neuromuscular Rehabilitation: Rethinking Impairment Based Treatment Approaches #261

MON, 31 OCT // 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus: Other (Mind-body, systems based approach to human movement) This course is appropriate for practitioner health and wellness and for treating patients with neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions. Secondary...

Single-Case Design Studies: Development, Clinical Use, Reporting and Evaluation for the Rehabilitation Evidence Base #66

  MON, 31 OCT // 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus: Crosscutting (The information to be provided and the skills learned are applicable to all diagnostics groups, all rehabilitation settings, and all rehabilitation professional disciplines) Secondary Content...

Neuroplasticity: Leveraging Principles of Plasticity to Optimize Neurorehabilitation #37

  MON, 31 OCT // 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus:  Neuroplasticity (includes neuroscience) Secondary Content Focus:  Brain Injury, Stroke There has been much effort devoted to harnessing, directing, and enhancing the human central nervous system’s...

Cognitive Support Technology and Vocational Rehabilitation: Approaches for Postsecondary Students With a Traumatic Brain Injury #91

  MON, 31 OCT // 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus:  Brain Injury Secondary Content Focus:  Technology (e.g. prosthetics/orthotics, robotics, assistive technology), Clinical practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP) This...

Skeletal Muscle Design and Plasticity #48

  MON, 31 OCT // 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Primary Content Focus:  Other (Muscle Plasticity) Secondary Content Focus:  Pediatric Rehabilitation, Brain Injury This instructional course will be based on a textbook that describes both the design and function of skeletal...

Fatigue, Impaired Alertness and Daytime Sleepiness in Traumatic Brain Injury  #152

  MON, 31 OCT // 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Primary Content Focus: Brain Injury Secondary Content Focus: Clinical practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP), Other (theoretical constructs of complex perceived states) The primary objective of...

Performing and Making Sense of a Literature Search #271

  SUN, 30 OCT // 1:30 – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus:  Other (Research Literature Search and Methods Overview) The course is open to any interested physicians, therapists, nurses, or other healthcare professionals who seek to enhance their literature searching...

The Multiple Errands Test: Developing, Administering and Scoring Site-Specific Versions #33

  SUN, 30 OCT // 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus: Clinical practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP) Secondary Content Focus: Brain Injury, Geriatric Rehabilitation, Measurement, Stroke This one-day  interactive workshop is...

The NIH Toolbox: State of the Art Outcome Measures for Rehabilitation Practice and Research #143

  SUN, 30 OCT // 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus:  Measurement Secondary Content Focus:  Clinical practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP), Brain injury, Other (The rehabilitation applications of the NIH Toolbox Measurement...

Yoga: A Holistic Approach for Rehabilitation Across Disciplines #233

  SUN, 30 OCT // 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Primary Content Focus:  Clinical practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP) This course will challenge rehabilitation professionals to examine a yogic approach for health and function and to compare...