Spinal Cord Injury Rehab (Daywalt)

Course overview

Spinal cord injuries affect nearly 18,000 new Americans each year. At any one time, nearly 300,000 people in the United States are living with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). With increasingly high first year mortality rates, and a steadily decreasing length of stay in both acute care and rehab settings, it is our responsibility as healthcare providers to educate ourselves in order to more effectively treat this population. Physical and occupational therapists have the potential to make the single, biggest impact on the functional outcomes of these patients, drastically improving both quality and quantity of life post-injury. This one-day course will equip clinicians with the skills needed to better understand the diagnosis and accompanying comorbidities patients with SCI may experience. Course participants will gain valuable hands-on* experience with transfer techniques, interventional strategies, and wheelchair skills. Two separate lab* sessions will provide attendees the opportunity to practice techniques on one another. Following this course, therapists will immediately be able to integrate the techniques and ideas learned to more effectively meet the needs of their patients with SCI.