Speaker: Anne Paré
Children with hypermobility and low muscle tone often present with excessive pronation.
While families are reassured that children outgrow flat feet, this population is at risk for compensation.
Atypical alignment at the foot and ankle can impact postural control, activation of core and leg muscles, upright motor development, and gait development. These deficits can affect a child’s ability to play, have fun with friends and family, and participate in social activities.
Excessive pronation can be controlled through dynamic orthotic intervention which helps improve distal alignment while allowing the typical movements necessary for postural control, motor activities, and social participation.
#TeaTimeTalk: Career Diversification
Speaker: Florence Goodwin.
Florence Goodwin will reflect on her interesting career pathway towards dual qualification as an Orthotist and Physiotherapist. Florence graduated from the University of Salford and started her career as an Orthotist for Taycare Medical. Here, she worked in Derbyshire where she linked closely with the diabetic foot team and built a foundation in diabetic foot care. Her next role was for Sherwood Forest Hospitals where she ran a neuro-paediatric clinic alongside her general outpatient and acute practice. Florence is passionate about empowering patients to independently manage their long-term health and mobility and minimise dependence on health services. This passion has recently led Florence to work towards an MSc in Physiotherapy, and she hopes to use her skills in both disciplines to achieve this.
#TeaTimeTalk: Transfemoral Direct Socket – Our Experiences
Speaker: Rachel Malcolm
This presentation aims to give an introduction to Ossur’s Direct Socket TF technique, for producing sub ischial sockets, and how we have incorporated this into regular practice in our service here in North Wales. The process will be described and then an overview of our clinical process and some case studies to help share our thoughts as well as a quick look at some of the literature available.
#TeaTimeTalk: BAPO: Developing a Leadership Platform for AHP’s
In a panel conversation between:
Richard Shorney and Joanne Casey, this teatime will focus on the benefits of developing leadership training platforms across all AHPs.
To be truly effective, leaders need to build a toolkit of knowledge, skills and behaviours that will set them, their teams and their organisations up for success.
It is BAPO’s aim to highlight the need to:
Develop more than just a course
Encourage reciprocal learning
Understand leadership needs
Webinar Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ITYAg38_TP-ZQJ_USLr3eQ
P&O day 2022
OETT Lecture: Can Orthotic and Prosthetic Prescription Influence Cognitive Load?
People with physical impairments often experience higher amounts of cognitive load as the nature of their impairment makes the performance of certain tasks inherently more complex. This webinar aims to provide participants with a deeper understanding of the concept of cognitive load and to explore the effects that orthotic and prosthetic device provision may have on cognitive processes.
Nerrolyn will present results of neuroimaging studies investigating the use of finger orthoses to reduce cognitive load for individuals with joint hypermobility disorders, as well as studies investigating cognitive load associated with prosthetic knee joint prescription.
The webinar will conclude with a discussion of how to measure cognitive load in a clinical environment.
Teatime Talks – BAPO Leadership Programme (Inspiring our Future Leaders)
During this Tea Time Talk we will be sharing information regarding the new BAPO Leadership Programme 2022.
BAPO have been successful in obtaining an educational grant from Health Educational England (HEE). The intention of this funding is to implement a professional development programme to support the next generation of leaders in P&O.
To be truly effective, leaders need to build a toolkit of knowledge, skills and behaviours that will set them, their teams and their organisations up for success.
It is BAPO’s aim to develop a programme which fulfils the delegates’ leadership expectations from both an operational and strategic perspective.
Teatime Talks – The role of P&Os in improving the public’s health: What does it mean to me and my practice?
There is increasing recognition that AHPs are an integral part of the public health workforce with over 70,000 AHPs in the UK and over 4 million contacts per week. With this in mind the AHP Public Health Strategy Framework document 2019-2024 was developed, which acknowledges the role of AHPs to improve population health and reduce health inequalities with public health being a core element of what they do. It focuses around 5 goals to enable AHPs to improve population health.
As Prosthetists and Orthotists, we work across many sectors and have the potential to add value to public health priorities. We often work with people over a life course which allows us to develop a rapport with the people who utilise our services and we routinely incorporate questioning around healthy lifestyles and wellbeing in our assessments.
In this tea time talk we will introduce you to the domains of Public Health and the Framework document and examine how we can incorporate and routinely record our population health interventions or improve our services to ensure they are equitable.
Teatime Talks – P&O Prescription with Cellulitis, Wounds and Lymphoedema
Speaker – Linda Jenkins
Teatime Talks – Functional Neurological Disorder in Paediatrics
Functional movement disorders can be defined as “Symptoms with no organic cause, or that are out of proportion to underlying illness” (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2012). The diagnosis includes conditions with no medical explanation AND conditions where there is some underlying pathology but an exaggerated response. Often such patients get passed from service to service seeking solutions, and often report having unhelpful experiences with healthcare professionals.
Holistic treatment approaches, including physical and psychological aspects can be incredibly helpful for children and young people with functional movement disorders, however regionally and nationally accessing treatment can be challenging. Maggie has experience in managing children and young people with functional movement disorders within her inpatient service. Vic works within an outpatient service treating a range of children and young people with persistent physical symptoms, including those with functional movement disorders, and is involved in work to develop services across the North East region
They will share the background to their work and the impact it may have on those professionals who see these patients.