Teatime Talks – Interview with Nicky Eddison
Join us for an indepth interview with Dr Nicky Eddison, the first consultant Orthotist in the UK and senior Research Fellow at Staffordshire University. Listen to her career journey to date in our teatime talks series exploring the opportunities for our profession
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Teatime Talks – Ground Reaction Force Manipulation in KAFOs
This session will discuss, interactively, the basic points to ensure that an AFO or KAFO can manipulate the effect of the ground reaction force to the benefit of your client, and clinical outcomes. This webinar is perfect for students, New grads and those just wanting a refresher!
P&O Day
Orthotist of the Year Nominations
Prosthetist of the Year Nominations
Prosthetists of the Year nominations are open! Please click for more details
BAPO Conference 2021
Physical Activity for the Prevention and Management of Long-Term conditions
As ‘Making Every Contact Count’ conversations are occurring in every clinical intervention, it is important Prosthetist/Orthotists can promote healthy activity to our patients.
BAPO is proud to collaborate with Public Health England to provide training about leading advice in physical activity for the prevention and management of long term conditions.
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Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_drX4bj4rQ6el2NziTcNUiQ
Orthotics Technology Forum Event
FIT360, in collaboration with BAPO, are proud to host the OTF 2021.
The OTF is an accredited educational event aimed at introducing delegates to the opportunities, benefits and challenges that existing and emerging scan, design and make technologies offer our foot health communities
Focus On – Hypermobility Management
Hypermobility and EDS is commonly seen in Orthotic and Prosthetics clinic, but when do we know when to treat or not treat? When is treatment more than a device? How do we communicate with the patient and their family about the Prostheses or Orthoses design and effect?
BAPO presents an evening of education and discussion on hypermobility spectrum disorders and symptoms. Looking at diagnoses, prescription, communication and what we need to further educate ourselves on. #HSD #hypermobility
Speaker profile:
Helen McCormack is an Orthotist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She works in general clinics with specialism in Paediatrics and Pectus. Since her first exposure to hypermobility during university placements she has recognised the stigma attached to the subject, something which has been further bolstered in her career. This has motivated her to tackle the obvious difficulties in diagnosis and the challenges presented when communicating this to the patient and their next of kin.
Over the last few years she has been to seek out further information and working alongside other AHPs to see the prevalence and effect of hypermobile symptoms, EDS, Marfans and other HSD. Also, the impact that diagnoses early on in intervention, even in patients that are undiagnosed, can have.
She is hosting an educational evening for BAPO, involving an open discussion on hypermobile symptomatic patients within Prosthetics and Orthotics. The aim is to address what we already understand about these symptoms, and when we use this diagnosis to treat, or when it can scare us away from treatment
This Course is now Full – We are looking forward to you joining our next webinar