Variety Webinar - 4 Speakers

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Tara Packham OTReg.(Ont.), PhD - Pain Neuroscience Education

This presentation will help therapists understand what pain neuroscience education is and how it incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, health teaching and psycho-education. We will explain how it is used for both patient and health care providers to better understand the complexities of pain and how we can better communicate this important aspect of care in hand therapy.

Dr. Roy Meals - An update on muscle from the microscope to the gym

Since its beginning 600 million years ago, muscle has excelled as a motor in terms of durability, versatility, scalability, ubiquity, and efficiency. At its core are two protein filaments that repeatedly slide past one another. They power movement, both voluntary and involuntary, in animals of all sizes. We examine the arrangement, function, and oddities of involuntary, cardiac, and voluntary muscles and then turn to the effects of bodybuilding, performance-enhancing drugs, aging and disuse, and rigor mortis. Attention turns to various disorders of muscle along with their medical and surgical treatments. Finally, we compare muscle to botanical, other zoological, and manmade motors and conclude by discussing electroactive polymers that one day may replace missing muscles.

Gary Solomon MBA, MS, OTR/L,CHT - Restoring Essential Functions of the Wrist and Hand

This presentation examines treatment strategies to restore function and natural movement patterns following hand / wrist injury. Emphasis is on selecting interventions / treatment activities based on healing phase and patient activity needs.

Participants will be able to

•Articulate strategies to facilitate and restore wrist/ hand proprioception after injury

•Articulate activity selection rationale throughout healing phases restore essential wrist and hand functions

•Demonstrate understanding of wrist and hand “functions” and order of progression based on tissue healing

•Articulate uses of orthoses to help restore and re-train normal movement patterns

Leslie Russek PT, DPT, PhD, OCS - Hypermobility Syndrome

This lecture will describe hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS), the most common heritable connective tissue disorder. Because it is a systemic connective tissue disorder, it can affect multiple systems beyond just causing hypermobile joints. Furthermore, common comorbidities can complicate presentation and management. Participants will learn to recognize HSD/hEDS and outline conservative evaluation and management approaches.

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