2 - Gait Disorders with Spastic Hemiparesis: Treatment with Nerve Blocks, Botulinum Toxins and Orthotics

Saturday, October 22, 2022

2:15 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Location: 309-310

Speaker(s)

Abraham Alfaro, PhD, DO

Rehabilitation Medicine Consultant; Director, Division of PM&R.
AtlantiCare Health Services: Federally Qualified Health Center
Linwood, New Jersey

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Will present cases related to the following topics
1. Scissoring gait with spastic hip adductors.
2. Stiff knee gait: treatment with quadriceps muscle chemo- denervation and/or femoral nerve motor branch blocks.
3. Genu recurvatum with spastic ankle plantar flexors: identifying and treating spastic muscles, and prescribing orthotics.