Instructional Concurrent Session VII
A Biopsychosocial Perspective of Treating Clients with Chronic Pain
Description:
This course will provide treatment strategies for engaging clients with chronic pain from a biopsychosocial perspective. Covered topics include: 1) pain neuroscience education using storytelling and metaphor to explain the purpose of pain, how persistent pain works, and that pain can change over time. 2) Integrative strategies for addressing chronic pain including stress management, mindfulness, physical activity, nutrition, and sleep. 3) Using an occupation-based perspective in chronic pain management. Addition pain education handouts, resources, books, and tools will be provided.
Objective(s):
Describe pain neuroscience education stratgies for clinic use.
Discuss integrative strategies for chronic pain intervention.
Apply an occupation-based perspective to chronic pain intervention.
Speaker(s):
Hand Therapists’ Research Priorities and AHTF Resources for Grants and Scholarships.
Description:
In 2002, the Board of Directors of the AHTF published a research agenda, based on responses of therapists surveyed in 1998. It guided the AHTF program for 20 years. Much has changed in healthcare and hand therapy practice since 2002. An AHTF appointed taskforce repeated the survey in 2021, questioning hand therapists not only about funding needs for research and education, but also about hand therapy practice and barriers to conducting research. Of the 28 questions asked, nineteen were close-ended questions and nine were open-ended that encouraged participants to express their knowledge, feelings and understanding of question subject matter. We will share survey outcomes for both types of questions.
The session will include interaction with members of the AHTF research agenda taskforce and participants. A complete overview of the AHTF grants and scholarships currently available will be provided. Participants may compare, contrast, and potentially expand on the insights brought forward by 2021 survey participants, and additionally may comment on AHTF grants and scholarship resources, and website clarity and ease of application.
Objective(s):
Recognize the value of the mixed method approach to analyzing the 2021 AHTF survey data and describe hand therapy research needs based upon the survey responses.
Discuss barriers to research participation and research adoption in clinical practice.
List the AHTF funding opportunities that align with attendee's personal and professional research funding and research education needs.
Informing Interdisciplinary Upper Limb Amputation Rehabilitation Using an Outcomes-based Perspective to Promote Patient Well-being.
Description:
The multi-disciplinary team approach during care of the upper limb amputee has been shown to have positive results in patient outcomes (Latour, 2022). This course will explore how to use outcomes to strengthen the collaborative team working with upper limb amputees using patient-centered treatment plans to promote maximum patient well-being. We will explore the current trends of the multi-disciplinary team and the effects on the outcomes of rehabilitation, including the results of an enhanced collaboration between prosthetists and therapists focusing on shared goals. We will provide therapists with an improved understanding of how to access support and resources when working with a patient with an upper limb amputation or prosthesis to promote skill and comfort level when working with this population. This course will use established outcome measures to help identify patient-specific challenges to then apply to treatment plans that target participation and patient-identified goals. The therapist will also come away with skills to implement in the clinic when working with clinicians of different disciplines with a goal of improving patient overall well-being.
Objective(s):
Effectively interpret outcome data to design treatments that support patient-driven goals in the amputee population.
Identify how to search and access resources when working with patients of this population to build skills and maximize comfort level.
Identify strategies to implement in the clinic when working with clinicians of different disciplines with a goal of improving patient overall well-being.
Speaker(s):
The Last Mile: Advanced Rehabilitation, Functional Training and Return To Sport Programming For The Upper Extremity Specialist To Safely Return Athletes To Play
Description:
Sports participation is increasing and so are upper extremity injuries to the athletes that play at all ages and levels. Hand therapists are experts in upper extremity rehabilitation, but require additional skills to safely return athletes to their maximum performance and safely return to play. This course will focus on sports-focused advanced rehabilitation interventions, functional movement analysis to develop functional training programs and return to sport process development. Clinical cases will be presented with video to enhance the participants learning and integration of new skills into their treatment.
Objective(s):
Discover and apply advanced sports-specific upper extremity rehabilitation concepts including neuro-dynamic, neuro-cognative, torque/speed, weight- bearing, skill drills and plyometrics.
Describe functional movement testing and interpreration to develop functional training programs for athletes.
Formulate a return to play process for your organization to safely return athletes to maximum sports participation.
Update on Management of Complex Extensor Tendon Reconstruction in the Hand
Description:
This course will cover surgical and therapy management of complex extensor tendon reconstructions. The course will cover the anatomy and physiology of extension, surgical and therapy management of complex reconstructions in the hand. Principles of surgical and therapy management will be illustrated through lecture and case presentations.
Objective(s):
Describe the extrinsic and intrinsic contributions to the extensor mechanism and how they affect management in different zones of injury.
Recognize the different finger deformities caused by extensor mechanism injury and analyze the mechanics of deformity.
Assess appropriate splinting and rehabilitation techniques for postoperative management of complex extensor reconstructions in the hand.