Training Course:

Neuro Evolution:
Connecting Science to Rehabilitation

15th & 16th April 2012

An experiential workshop translating cutting edge scientific evidence into clinical practice for PTs and OTs. Designed for Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists who have the curiosity to develop a dynamic approach to their practice by integrating the latest scientific research into sensory and motor techniques.

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Hear from leading experts about new and ongoing research on remyelination and neuroplasticity and what it means to you as a clinician
Enhance clinical effectiveness by learning how to apply the scientific information into sensori-motor techniques
Learn techniques to integrate FES (Functional Electrical Stimulation) protocols into your treatment sessions
Discover how the role of language can increase the speed and efficiency of recovery
Understand the role orthotics can play in optimizing rehabilitation

Guest Speakers

Dr. Adam Kaplin
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology

John Hopkins Hospital USA

Dr. Adam Kaplin is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Kaplin focuses on the psychiatric complications of neurological diseases. He will present on understanding the clinical effects, diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment in CNS demyelinating diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis and Transverse Myelitis.

*Seeing is worth a thousand unforgotten words: Cutting edge research on imaging cognitive impairment and the development of novel approaches to preventing and reversing cognitive impairment in CSN demyelinating diseases.

Dr Kaplin has been responsible for the following research literature:

Depression: How to avoid getting depressed by depression: The biological basis and clinical relevance of immune-mediated depression.
Persuasion before healing: Recognizing the role CNS demyelinating diseases play in the causation of clinical depression, the role that clinical depression plays in worsening demyelinating diseases and the ability of the same treatments to treat and reverse both.
Serotonin: Awash in a sea of serotonin: How SCUBA diving has led to novel theories of how to restore lost function in chronic spinal cord injury.

Dr. Daniel Becker
Professor of Neurology

John Hopkins University USA

Dr. Daniel Becker is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital and also the Director of Pediatric Restoration Therapy at Kennedy Krieger Institute at the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Becker is going to discuss how the spinal cord responds to injury. The discussion will include the principles of self-repair mechanisms, and neuroplasticity, re-myelination and endogenous stem cells. He will then discuss the role of activity on these principles and how they can be enhanced. Special focus will be on the role of activity based restorative therapies (ABRT) and functional electrical stimulation (FES) on a clinical level and basic science level.