*PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME*

Eastern Rehab Group – Educational Conference  09/09/2005

The Neurorehabilitation of Children and Young Adults

The Maltings, Ely, Cambridgeshire [view directions]

9:00 am                        Registration and Coffee

9:30 am                        Welcome

9:35 am                        New Developments in Spasticity Treatment in Children with Cerebral Palsy: What is the Evidence? 

Dr Jan Willem Gorter, Rehabilitation Centre De Hoogstraat and Wilhelmina Children's Hospital as part of the University Medical Center, Utrecht

10:20 am                       Mobility in Children with Neurological Disease

Marja Van-Dijk, WhizzKids, Kent

11:00 am                       Coffee

11:20 am                       Intrathecal Baclfofen and the Treatment of Childhood Spasticity; The Nottingham Experience

Kath Brimlow, Queen’s Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham

12:05 am                       Latest Developments in the Clinical Application of Dynamic Lycra Splinting for Children and Young Adults with Acquired and Congenital Neurological Disability  

Jenni Colgate, Second Skin, London

12:50 am                       Lunch

1:50 am                        The Psychological Rehabilitation of Children and Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury

Dr Patrick Vesey, Queen’s Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham

2:35 am                        The Journey of a Child through the Rehabilitation Process at The Children’s Trust

Speakers tbc: The Children’s Trust, Tadworth Court, Surrey

3:20 pm                        Tea

3:40 pm                        The Assessment and Rehabilitation of Children and Adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury at the Bath Head Injuries Unit

Dr Peter Tucker, Bath Head Injury Unit, Bath

4:25 pm                        Closing remarks