Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)
Lifestyle Medicine
Cross-Cutting
Symposium
Stephen Trapp, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Utah
Park City, Utah
Juan Carlos Arango Lasprilla, PhD
Ikerbasque Research Professor
Biocruces Health Research Institute - Cruces University Hospital
Bizkaia,, Pais Vasco
Melina Longoni, MD
Director
Clínica de rehabilitación Reverie - Centro de rehabilitación ReDel - Dirección de discapacidad Ituzaingó
Tigre, Buenos Aires
Melissa Ertl, MS
Doctoral Student
University at Albany-State University of New York
Albany, New York
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Sex, intimacy, and sexual functioning are important aspects of quality of life that continue to be under-addressed in rehabilitation medicine. There is a call for rehabilitation professionals to have greater awareness of and training in the range of sexuality concerns of rehabilitation patients. This proposed half-day instructional course will review the state of the science, including systems barriers and disease-specific factors related to sexuality after disability, and will review clinical aspects of sex and sexual functioning for individuals with rehabilitation conditions. Overall aims are to promote clinical conversations necessary to enhance sexual quality of life for patients and their partners.
