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Monday 7th June

PLENARY SESSIONS (morning)

Not so easy riders: reflections on achieving wheeled mobility - Tom Shakespeare

TBA

Dance and Disability in Scotland - Marc Brew and Caroline Bowditch

Outcome Measures: what can I use in my clinic? - Rory O'Connor and Mark Schmeler

PARALLEL SESSIONS (afternoon)

Best Practice Guidelines

BPGM1 (part 1&2) Vehicular transportation for users occupying their wheelchairs - John Tiernan

BPGM2 (part 1&2) Early Powered Mobility for Children - Josephine Durkin

BPGM3 Early Interventions - best practice before the patient reaches the rehabilitation unit - Laura Graham

BPGM4 Tilt, recline and elevating leg rests for wheelchairs - Helle Dreier

BPGM5 Clinical Guidelines on use of pressure mapping systems - Pat Meeker

Workshops

Abnormal reflexes and seating strategies - Leslie Fitzsimmons

Integrating quantitative information used for decision making during manual wheelchair evaluations - Theresa Berner

Physical Assessment - A "how to" guide for engineers, nurses and therapists - Jean Minkel and Dorte Stovring

Technical Workshop - Changes in properties with use: aged to perfection or it's downhill from here - Evan Call

The MDD - How does it apply to my every day practice? - Peter Diesing

Free Papers

Measurement Stream

Upper Limb Stream

 

Tuesday 8th June

Breakfast Satellite Symposia (0800 hours - 0900 hours) Consolor Ltd - 107 backs + 127 cushions = 234 reasons to choose MaTRx! Merz Pharma UK Ltd

PLENARY SESSIONS (morning)

Tissue Integrity and Support Surfaces, Where We Are...Where should we go? Wounds Tissue Damage and its causes - Dave Brienza and Makoto Takahashi EPUAP/NPUAP Prevention Guidelines, an Overview- Michael Clark and Evan Call Support Surface Laboratory Testing and its Clinical Significance - David McCausland

Community and Culture in Rehabilitation: a UK perspective - Chris Ward

Decision-making for people in rehabiliation - Andrew Hanrahan

Capacity and cognition - Alan Carson

PARALLEL SESSIONS (afternoon)

Best Practice Guidelines

BPGT6 (part 1&2) Maintaining Upper Extremity Health and Maximizing Mobility Related Activities of Daily Living for Manual Wheelchair Users - Tina Roesler

BPGT8 (part 1)Clinical Practice Guidelines: Transfer Training for Transferring in the Home and Beyond - Jean Minkel

BPGT7 Seat Elevating Devices for wheelchair users - Lise Moeldrup

BPGT9 Supported Standing: Integrating Evidence into Practice - Ginny Paleg and Wendy Murphy

Workshops

Remote Wheelchair Provision -  David Constantine, Lloyd Walker, Free Paper - Sarah Frost

BSRM Vocational Rehab Special Interest Group - Judith Allanson

BSRM Special Interest Group Electronic Assistive Technology - Malcolm Fisk, Emlyn Williams and Tarek Gaber

Tissue Integrity - Lisa Ledger and Helle Dreier

Difficult decisions in multidisciplinary rehabilitation: how to reduce the pain - Chris Ward

Free Papers

Assessment and Wheelchair Stream

Product Design Stream

 

Wednesday 9th June

PLENARY SESSIONS (afternoon)

Opportunities for joint working: holding hands with industry

Opportunities for joint working: holding hands with industry - Mark Sullivan

Collaboration in Toronto - Geoff Fernie

Programme for prevention of hip dislocation and severe contractures in cerebral palsy - Gunnar Hagglund

The value of a Physician in the tertiary wheelchair centre - Andrew Frank

The role of medicine in promoting function in posture and movement - Margaret Phillips

PARALLEL SESSIONS (morning)

Best Practice Guidelines

BPGW10 (part 1&2) Empowering children and adults with cognitive disabilities to learn skills for powered mobility - Rosalie Wang

BPGW11- (part 1 &2) Supported lying - Joyce MacDonald

BPTG8 (part 2) Clinical Practice Guidelines: Transfer Training for Transferring in the Home and Beyond- Jean Minkel

Workshops

Invasive Methods of Treating Spasticity - Chris Roy

Fundamentals of Research - David Porter and Marie Kelly

Wheelchair Set-Up and Implications for Function  - Hannah Proctor and Lone Rose

BSRM Special Interest Group Amputee Medicine

Free Papers

Management Stream

Carers and Users Stream