Splinting and Casting for Neuro and Acute Care

Description:

This comprehensive two day workshop is designed for therapists with basic to intermediate level splinting skillsówho want to improve their splint making skills for patients with neurological diagnoses and for patients in the acute care setting. Enhance theoretical knowledge and be better able to problem solve and choose the correct splints for patients with a variety of upper extremity conditions.

Improve your efficiency and take the fear factor out of splinting and casting. Learn to master the mechanics of splint fabrication and cast making with special techniques and helpful hints that let you create professional looking upper extremity splints and castsóquickly and easily.

Location: Virginia Mason Medical Center
1201 Terry Ave.
Seattle, WA 98101

When: April 10, 2010, 08:00 AM – April 11, 2010, 05:30 PM

Sponsor: Rehab Education, LLC

Link: http://rehabed.com/ws-splint-neuro-acute-care.php

Venue: Virginia Mason Medical Center

Short blurb:

This comprehensive two day workshop is designed for therapists with basic to intermediate level splinting skills who want to improve their splint making skills for patients with neurological diagnoses and for patients in the acute care setting. Enhance theoretical knowledge and be better able to problem solve and choose the correct splints for patients with a variety of upper extremity conditions.

Instructor name: Susan Baum Locker MSEd, OTR/L

Instructor bio:

Susan Baum Locker MSEd, OTR/L has been an Occupational Therapist since 1977. She has worked in a variety of settings: rehabilitation hospital, acute care, home health, independent living center and out-patient hand therapy clinics. She has been a member of the American Society of Hand Therapists since 1982 and is board certified by the state of California as an advanced practitioner in hand therapy, and in the use of modalities.

Susan has been teaching splinting workshops since 1991. She has been a guest lecturer at ASHT (American Society of Hand Therapists), AOTA (American Occupational Therapy Association) and OTAC (Occupational Therapy Association of California), RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America) and Hand Therapy Special Interest Groups. Susan has been an instructor at the University of Southern California, and has co-authored numerous articles in the field of physical disabilities.

She remains clinically active as an occupational therapist (in hospital and out-patient hand therapy settings) and as an educator for the therapy community. Due to her broad knowledge in UE management, and her love for teaching, Susan has been teaching and mentoring hand splinting throughout the United States since 1991. She provides workshops that facilitate an intensive, but relaxed learning environment. Topics include splinting for the orthopedic, neurological, acute and pediatric patient.

Contact hours: 14

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