Information on Pre- and Post-Conference Workshops
Pre-Conference Workshop 1 (Half-day)
Title:
Neurophysiology of Walking in Young Children and Implications for Rehabilitation
Date:
2 October 2015 (Friday)
Time:
9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 113-115, School of General Nursing, Queen Elizabeth Hospital,
Jordan, Kowloon
Speaker: Prof. Jaynie YANG
Prof. Yang is a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, a member of the Neuroscience and
Mental Health Institute, and the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute at the University of
Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
Her undergraduate training is in physical therapy (Queen’s University), with
graduate training in the biomechanics of human walking (University of Waterloo), and post-doctoral
training in the neuroscience of human walking (University of Alberta).
neuroscience of walking between quadrupeds and humans.
Her work bridges the gap in
By using young children as participants, she
showed that children are born with a sophisticated locomotor system similar to other mammals.
More
recent work has examined motor learning during walking in young children, which is proving to be
different from adults.
Her translational research focuses on optimizing retraining of walking after
injuries to the nervous system, and understanding the neural mechanisms underlying training-induced
changes. Current projects are on intensive leg training for children with perinatal stroke and training with
the ReWalk exoskeleton for adults with severe spinal cord injury.
Description:
The workshop will summarize the neural control of walking in humans, focusing especially on the early
stepping in infants.
It will then review current understanding of motor learning in children with
emphasis on walking.
Finally, it will review animal work on the importance of activity in molding motor
development, and the implications for children with early brain injury.
Class Size: 40
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Pre-Conference Workshop 2 (Half-day)
Title:
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSKUS) Diagnostic Workshop on Knee – Static and Dynamic
Date:
2 October 2015 (Friday)
Time:
1:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 113-115, School of General Nursing, Queen Elizabeth Hospital,
Jordan, Kowloon
Speaker: Dr. Stanley LAM
Course Objectives:
The workshop will help to understand more about sonoanatomy of knee.
After this workshop, attendees
should be able to do a basic diagnostic MSKUS scanning of knee following the protocol. With
demonstration, attendees should know the advance dynamic MSKUS scanning of knee.
Course Outline:
1:30pm to 2:00pm
Basic Ultrasound Physics and Knobology
2:00pm to 2:45pm
Sonoanatomy and Demonstration of MSKUS scanning of Knee

Anterior Knee: Suprapatellar, Infrapatellar,
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Medial Knee: MCL and Medial Meniscus
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Lateral Knee: LCL, Lateral Meniscus, ITB, Biceps Femoris
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Posterior Knee: Baker's Cyst, PCL, Posterior horn of Medial and Lateral
Menisci
2:45pm to 3:00pm
Coffee/Tea Break
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Hands-on Scanning of Knee
4:30pm to 5:00pm
Ask the Pearl and Demonstration of Advance Knee MSKUS scanning.
Class Size: 40
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Post-Conference Workshop (Whole day)
Title:
The Bio-Psychosocial Management of Complex Patients with Low Back Pain
Date:
5 October 2015 (Monday)
Time:
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 113-115, School of General Nursing, Queen Elizabeth Hospital,
Jordan, Kowloon
Speaker: Ms. Gail SOWDEN
Ms. Sowden was appointed as a Consultant Physiotherapist in 2005. She is passionate about improving
the quality of care of people with musculoskeletal pain through the delivery of cost effective evidence
based practice. She is the Allied Health Professions lead for pain and vocational rehabilitation across
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent NHS Partnership Trust (UK) and influences national policy and practice
through involvement in projects (e.g., standards, competencies) and membership of societies and
committees (e.g., a British Pain Society Committee). In 2014 she became a member of the West Midlands
Academic Health Science Network(AHSN) Integrated Care implementation team and an NIHR CLAHRC
West Midlands Diffusion and Leadership Fellow. She has led service design and redesign projects
resulting in the commissioning of new services and job roles. She provides leadership and clinical input
into an award winning interdisciplinary chronic pain service and delivers postgraduate teaching as well as
internationally regarded clinical skills training. She also works in a clinical trials unit (Keele University)
where she is involved in world leading musculoskeletal research (e.g., STarTBack, IMPacT Back, BEEP,
SWAP trials), is a co-applicant on three international research collaborations and publishes in peer
reviewed journals (e.g. Lancet). She has recently become a NICE Fellow.
Description:
The workshop will provide a brief introduction to the assessment and management of the more distressed
and disabled low back pain patients (STaRT Back high risk group).
Course Outline:
Introduction and Background

Pain is a multiple system output activated by the

Pain control versus meaningful living, with pain

Shifting the agenda from pain control to
brain based on perceived threat.

The normal psychology of pain (cognitions,
emotions and behaviours)
meaningful living

Communication skills

Values based goal setting

Conducting a biopsychosocial assessment

Increasing meaningful living

Explaining chronic pain
Class Size: 40
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