Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Cross-Cutting

Pediatric Rehabilitation

Instructional Course

(595100) IC 10: A Non Pharmacological Treatment Approach to Reduce Pain and Spasticity in the Pediatric Patient.

Presenter(s)

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  Annie O'Connor, MSPT, OCS, Cert. MDT

  Chief Clinical Officer for MSK Partnerships
  Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
  Oak Park, Illinois
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  Melissa Watson, MSPT, Cert MDT

  Physical Therapist
  Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
  Lombard, Illinois

Moderator(s)

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  Roberta OShea, PT, DPT, PhD

  Professor
  Governors State University
  Countryside, Illinois

This one day course will introduce a nonpharmlogical exercise approach to decreasing pain and spasticity via lecture, case review, and participatory lab. The course includes a literature review of current pain and spasticity interventions, and introduces a reliable classification system for exercise selection using directional preference and neurodynamic exercise in the pediatric patient. Demonstration of the Pain Mechanism Classification System for pain and spasticity as a clinical reasoning guideline to drive intervention selection of patient education and active execise. Video cases and live patient testimonies of patients will demonstrate how this PMCS impacts neurological pediatric clinical practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Differentiate subjective and objective clinical characteristics for mechanical peripheral neurogenic spasticity symptoms.
• Apply pain mechanism classification clinical reasoning principles to the pediatric patient to identify trapped, tight, or centrally mediated pain or spasticity.
• Classify peripheral spasticity dominant pain mechanism and prescribe individualized patient education and active care intervention to a pediatric patient.