Instructional Course

Pediatric Rehabilitation

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Neuroplasticity (includes neuroscience)

Spinal Cord Injury

IC13: Optimizing Pediatric NeuroRecovery: Benefits of Early Intervention and Activity-Based Therapy (808331)

Presenter(s)

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  Rebecca Martin, OTR/L, OTD

  Manager
  Kennedy Krieger Institute
  Baltimore, Maryland

  Presentation Slides
• 

  Andrea L. Behrman, PhD, PT, FAPTA

  Professor
  University of Louisville
  Louisville, Kentucky

  Presentation Slides
• 

  Dagmar Siebold

  Head and Owner of physiotherapy practice
  Practice for neuro-rehabilitation Siebold
  Berlin, Berlin
• 

  Harald Schubert

  CEO
  Novotec Medical Gmbh
  Pforzheim, Baden-Wurttemberg

  Presentation Slides
• 

  Jianhua Wu, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Georgia StateUniversity
  Atlanta, Georgia

  Presentation Slides Handouts Presentation + Audio
• EE

  Erin Eggebrecht, PT, DPT, NCS

  Physical Therapist
  Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
  Atlanta, Georgia

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio

Learning Objectives:

• List key scientific evidence and principles as the basis for activity-based therapies and rehabilitation paradigm-shift
• Understand application of training principles at an introductory level to promote recovery/acquisition of trunk control in pediatrics and identify clinical outcome measures specific to trunk control for pediatric SCI.
• Define appropriate patient selection and device prescription for mechanostimulation
• Describe intensive hospital and home-based interventions and applications of early intervention with mechanostimulation