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Clinical Session Proposals

Central Nervous System

Session Name: Aging with Neurologic Conditions: Post-polio Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida

3 - Care for Adults with Spina Bifida

Friday, October 21, 2022

8:00 AM – 9:15 AM ET

Location: 314-317

Speaker(s)

Reza Farid, MD

Professor
University of Missouri - Dept of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Columbia, Missouri

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

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Unique issues for adults with spinabifida. Monitoring for hydrocephalus, and when to refer to neurosurgery? What are long term changes in bowel and bladder? Weight changes and exercise recommendations. Mobility changes.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will have an improved understanding of life expectancy in patients with Spina Bifida
Participants will demonstrate improved awareness of the desires and thoughts related to sexual activities in patients with Spina Bifida
Participants will demonstrate factors important to the management of metabolic syndrome in Spina Bifida as well as complications associated with it.