Child Agenda
Day 1
7:30 am Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00 am Gait Pattern Review: terminology, kinematics, kinetics, EMG.
9:30 am Break
9:40 am Development of gait in children: How many hours/day a typical 10 month old works on walking?
11:00 am Break
11:05 am Cerebral Palsy gait: video case study, 3-D gait analysis, CP terminology, and impairments (spasticity, stiffness, weakness).
12:15 am Lunch Break (on your own)
1:00 pm Common Gait Deviations in Cerebral Palsy: Causes, impact, and intervention.
2:55 pm Break
3:00 pm Common Gait Deviations in Cerebral Palsy continued: Causes, impact, and intervention.
4:05 pm Adjourn
Day 2
8:00 am Cerebral Palsy research: Evidence in the literature on strengthening, rhizotomy, orthopedic surgery, and other common interventions.
10:00 am Break
10:15 am
Physical therapy interventions to improve gait in children with CP and presentation of a treatment algorithm.
12:15 pm
Lunch Break (on your own)
1:00 pm Management of gait in individuals with Cerebral Palsy: Case Studies
2:30 pm
Summary
3:00 pm Adjourn