Peacocks annual conference will take place at Centre for Life on Saturday 26th January 2019. This year's topic - Contracture Management - will appeal to a wide range of healthcare professionals including Orthotists, Physiotherapists and Podiatrists working in both the adult and paediatric arena.
As always we have attracted a very high calibre of speakers, and have a jam-packed agenda.
Booking is via Eventbrite here
Programme
9:00 Arrival
9.30 Welcome
9.35 Introduction; What is contracture?
Dr Stephen Ashford
10:05 A physiotherapy approach to contracture management
Sharon Solan, paediatric orthopaedic physiotherapist; Great North Children’s Hospital
10.25 An Orthotic approach to contracture management;
Gary Carden Orthotist, Peacocks Medical Group
10.45 What if it isn’t contracture? Tone v contracture;
Jane Gillman Senior physiotherapist North East Regional Clinical Gait Laboratory
11:05 Coffee and Biscuits
11.25 Research project; Use of contracture correction devices in Muscular Dystrophy;
Jassi Sodhi; Research Physiotherapist Regional Muscle Team, Centre For Life
11.45 Splinting for the prevention and correction of contractures in adults with neurological
dysfunction Practice guideline for occupational therapists and physiotherapist
Dr Stephen Ashford
12.15 Surgical options for contracture management, Great North Children’s Hospital
Mr Antoine De Geldhere FRCS, Consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeon;
12.45 Other technologies and applications
Professor Anand D Pandyan Professor of Rehabilitation Technology
13.15 Panel questions and discussion
13.30 Close and Lunch
Event poster and programme can be downloaded and shared below.