Not only is Magee Rehabilitation the Delaware Valley's original provider of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), it also has sponsored the area's longest-standing professional enrichment program designed to educate those in the rehabilitation community.

These programs mirror areas of Magee expertise, namely spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke/geriatrics, amputation and workplace injury.

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May 2010

Guy Fried Educational Seminar (PROGRAM IS FULL)

Attendees will learn to access the brain injury client; make decisions based on evidence based practice guidelines; manage patient therapies in accordance with evidence based practice and work with others to provide patient-focused care for patients with traumatic brain injuries.

May 17, 2010

Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
1513 Race Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102

7:30 - 8:00      Registration

8:00 - 8:15      Introduction

8:15 - 8:45       Timothy Young, MD - Neurobehavioral Sequelae of Traumatic Brain Injury

8:45 - 9:45     Ross Zafonte, DO - Physiology and Management of Sports Related Concussion

9:45 - 10:00   Break

10:00 - 11:00   Ross Zafonet, DO - The Neuropharmacology of TBI- Lessons from Clinical Trials,
Acute and Postacute

11:00 - Noon   James McDeavitt, MD - Behavioral Syndromes in Traumatic Brain Injury

Noon - 1:00      Lunch

1:00 - 1:45       Todd Lewis, PhD - Management of the Agitated Patient

1:45 - 2:30        Lane Brown, PhD - Rehabilitation Readiness

2:30 - 2:45        Break

2:45 - 3:30        NeuroRehab Team Panel - NeuroRehab Team Case Review

3:30 - 3:45        Closing

Timothy Young, MD
Medical Director Brain Injury, NeuroRehab Unit
Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

Managing TBI  - Pieces of the Puzzle

Ross Zafonte, DO
Chairman of the Department of PM&R
Harvard Medical School

Neuropharmacology of Traumatic Brain Injury - Lessons from clinical trials acute and postacute

Physiology and Management of Sports Related Concussion

James McDeavitt, MD
Senior Vice President Education&Research
Carolinas Healthcare System

Behavioral Syndromes in Traumatic Brain Injury

Todd Lewis, PhD
Neuropsychologist,  NeuroRehab Unit
Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

Management of the Agitated Patient

Lane Brown, PhD
Program Director, NeuroRehab Unit
Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

Rehab Readiness

Cost: $100 for Physicians, $50 for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

Click here to view the brochure.

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October 2009
Locomotor Training Principles and Practice

October 8 - 11, 2009

Locomotor training, an activity-based therapy, provides task specific practice of standing and walking by optimizing the sensory cues to generate improved motor activity for mobility, standing, and walking after neurological injury.  Locomotor retraining is provided on a treadmill using partial body weight support and manual facilitation. Improved neuromuscular capacity is then transferred to overground skills that are integrated into the home and community. Participants will learn the scientific basis, hands-on skills, clinical decision-making, and administrative and management strategies for providing locomotor training in a three and one-half day intense course.

Course Schedule:
Day 1
Registration: 7:30-8:00 AM
Course Program: 8:00 AM–6:00 PM
All participants will attend lectures that will focus on developing an understanding of the basic science and guiding principles of activity-based therapy, with an emphasis on locomotor training. All participants will be introduced to the skills and clinical decision making required to deliver locomotor training. Considerations for implementing activity-based therapy into rehabilitation programs will be discussed.

Days 2-4
Course Program Day 2-3: 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Course Program Day 4: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Clinical team members will participate in intensive skill development of locomotor training techniques. This includes patient evaluation and progression using a body weight support treadmill system, locomotor training, overground assessment and progression, and community ambulation and activity training.

Course Objectives
This intensive three and one-half day course combines didactic teaching and practical skills development with hands on treatment of individuals with spinal cord injury.
At the completion of this program, participants will:

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the basic science related to activity-based therapy.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the guiding principles of activity-based therapy, with an emphasis on locomotor training on the treadmill, over ground, and in the community.
• Identify and incorporate the principles of locomotor training during patient evaluation and progression.
• Demonstrate knowledge of trainer positions and the roles of each trainer during locomotor training.
• Demonstrate introductory level hands on skills as a trainer of locomotor training (in preparation for continued practice and skill development upon return to own clinical site).
• Describe the resources necessary to establish an effective and efficient activity-based therapy program, with an emphasis on locomotor training.
• Discuss how to effectively integrate locomotor training into an existing comprehensive therapy program.

Registration Fees:
Day 1 only:     $125 per person
Day 1-4:         $995 per person
Team of 3-5     $2,895

Contact
Mary Schmidt Read, PT, DPT, MS
Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
Philadelphia, PA

215-587-3151
mschmidt@mageerehab.org

Brochure: Click here for a copy of the brochure

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May 2009

Assessment and Management of Functional Gait Walking For Life

Date: May 2&3, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Location:
Magee Riverfront Outpatient Center
1500 S. Columbus Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Description:
This three day introductory level course is specifically designed for physical and occupation therapists and certified assistants who work with adults who have suffered a stroke or brain injury.  This course will provide participants with a comprehensive whole body and whole person approach to assessment, management planning and management of walking. 
 
This course will utilize movement analysis and an effective, outcome oriented and inclusive management approach based on concepts of normal movement, movement sciences, the Neuro-Integraticve Functional Rehabilitation and Habilitation approach (NEURO-IFRAH)
by Waleed Al-Oboudi. 

Creative progressions in resolving impairments and developing control and carry over for patients with various levels of function will be demonstrated and discussed.  Therapists and assistants working in acute rehab, outpatient and home health will benefit from this workshop. 

The course format will include lecture, problem solving, demonstration of practical application of concepts by the instructors, practice labs and possibly videos demonstrating the application on patients.  This course will be followed by intermediate level, advanced and ultra advanced courses on function in upright postures.  Information will be shared by lecture, lab and possibly using video or other visual aids. Cost: $450, Two or more participants from the same facility, $400 each

Brochure: Click here for a copy of the brochure.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Identify the importance of walking as a critical step in the rehab process and its effect on role assumption and resumption.
• Identify factors influencing walking (whole body and other systems).
• Identify normal components of movement in gait
• Identify abnormal components of movement interfering with gait in various conditions of observation.
• Apply handling techniques to facilitate control in standing and pre-gait
• Apply handling techniques to facilitate one step at a time, walking forward and backward and turning, for patients with various levels of function.
• Identify strategies to facilitate increased walking speed to normal on an individual basis
• Identify strategies to use tools to facilitate more normal components of movementand responses at various stages of recovery.

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