Spinal Cord Injury Association of Illinois Presents:

SPINAL CORD INJURY AND CHRONIC PAIN

A seminar for health professionals and persons with 

spinal cord injury

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital

26W171 Roosevelt Road

Wheaton, IL 60187

 

Course Description:

This seminar will provide attendants with the most up to date knowledge on spinal cord injury related chronic pain disorders, understanding the effects that pain stressors have on a person's motor function and various options for

learning model of the human spinal columns managing chronic pain. Physical therapists will also discuss proper seating and positioning in a wheelchair and teach modifications that can be made to protect one's upper extremity, as well as educate on training strategies to improve locomotor function for individuals with incomplete spinal cord injuries.

 

Seminar Agenda

7:30-8:15am:  Registration, Vendor      Exhibits & Continental Breakfast

8:15am:      Welcome

8:30-9:30:   Chronic Pain and SCI

  Ray Lee, MD, Schwab                Rehabilitation Hospital

9:30-10:30:  Smart Wheel and Pressure Mapping Clinic

Kathrina K. Prostka, PT, ATP, Marianjoy Rehabilitation           Hospital     

10:30-11am:  Break & Vendor Exhibits
11-12:00pm:  D evelopment of Effective Locomotor Training                                  Strategies for Individuals with  Motor Incomplete 
                     Spinal Cord Injury,  T. George Hornby, PT, PhD, 
                     Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 
12-1:30pm:   Lunch & Vendor Exhibits
1:30-2:30pm: Effects of Physiological Stressors (pain, cold                                    exercise) and Volitional and Spastic Activity in 
                     Patients with Motor Incomplete SCI,
                     T. George Hornby, PT, PhD , Rehabilitation 
                     Institute of Chicago
2:30pm:  Adjourn

Tours of Marianjoy Assistive Rehabilitation Technology Institute begin.

 Last tour to end at 4pm.

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Registration

Health professional $35__________        

Individuals with SCI & Family Members $20________

          (Limited scholarships available)

 

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Spinal Cord Injury Association of Illinois

P.O. Box 545 

Palos Heights, IL 60463, 

708-671-1808, Fax 708-671-1807

SCIinjury@aol.com, www.sci-illinois.org