Symposium

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

Cross-Cutting

Lifestyle Medicine

Pain Rehabilitation

Interdisciplinary Inpatient Rehabilitation for Bariatric Patients (819476)

Presenter(s)

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  Elizabeth Kliver, PT, DPT

  Senior Physical Therapist
  Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
  Chicago, Illinois
• 

  Kelcey Bines, OTR/L

  Senior Occupational Therapist
  Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
  Chicago, Illinois

  Presentation Slides
• 

  Benjamin J. Friedman, MD

  Attending Physician and Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  Chicago, Illinois
• 

  Anna Mirkin, LSW

  Care Manager
  Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
  Skokie, Illinois

We have been working with an interdisciplinary team comprised of physicians, physical
therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, psychologists, nurses, and care managers to
safely treat bariatric patients in the inpatient rehabilitation setting and establish safe discharge
plans back to home. We would like to introduce education about equipment considerations,
medical management necessities, transitional positions to safely exercise the bariatric patient,
gait training with bodyweight support systems, and discharge planning considerations needed
within the bariatric patient population to help clinicians safely treat the bariatric patient
population that is growing in the United States. We will discuss basic care considerations,
present multiple case presentations as well as video demonstrations of safe patient mobility
within the bariatric population. We will additionally present barriers to safe discharge planning,
community resource considerations and follow up care limitations in the current United States
health care system.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, participants will be able to identify safe treatment positions to mobilize bariatric patients in a hospital setting.
• Safely monitor response to exercise to help facilitate mobilization of the bariatric patient in a hospital setting.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to help establish discharge recommendation considerations for all bariatric patients from the hospital setting.
• Understand equipment expectations for the bariatric population for home and community discharge planning.