Adjunctive therapies to optimize botulin toxin injections for spasticity

Thursday, May 28 – 1200 – 1330 PM ET (1800 CT)

Join us for a 60 minute webinar (45 minutes of content & 15 minutes for Q&A) in the safety of your office. The lengthy offering for Q&A will be helpful for generating discussion, from across the country, to understand what the different barriers are by province. We will remain on line until 1330 to answer any additional questions.

These webinars showcase an international faculty to address the needs of medical and surgical physicians, PT/OT, and orthotists

Target audience: Physiatrists, Residents, Medical Students, Physicians treating spasticity in an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary setting, PMR, Plastic Surgery, Orthopedics, pediatrics, neurology, Neurosurgery, Physio and OT, and Orthotists.

Dr. Rajiv Reebye:

At the end of the session, participants will be able to:

  • Define adjunctive therapies post BoNT-A
  • Provide an evidence based review of adjunctive therapies including stretching, casting, taping post BoNT-A
  • Describe mechanism of action, practical clinical pearls in using adjunctive therapies including stretching, casting, taping for post BoNT-A and use of TENS for spasticity management

Dr. Stephano Carda:

At the end of the session, participants will be able to:

  • DESCRIBE the principles of how stretching, casting and taping act on spastic muscle
  • EXPLAIN to patients the importance and methods of adjunctive treatments after botulinum toxin
  • IDENTIFY contraindications of casting and taping

Dr. Heather Finlayson:

At the end of the session, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the physiologic basis for TENS as a modality for spasticity management
  • List key results from research studies on TENS for spasticity and have a practical approach to TENS use for your patients

CanMEDS Roles: Medical Expert (the integrating role), Collaborator, Leader, Health Advocate, Scholar

Panelists:
Heather Finlayson, MD, FRCPC, Clinical Assistant Professor @UBC Division of Physical Medical & Rehabilitation in Vancouver, BC, Canada
Stefano Carda, MD, Associate @Centre Hospitalier Uni
Rajiv Reebye, MD FRCPC, Clinical assistant professor in the department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia

Hosts:
Paul Winston, MD FRCPC, Clinical assistant professor in the department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and the Island Medical Program UBC
Genevieve Sirois, MD, Spécialiste en médecine physique et de réadaptation, Institut de réadaptation et déficience physique, QC

Co-developed with Allergan
Co-development is defined by the Royal College as the process by which two or more organizations — at least one of which must be a physician organization — prospectively collaborate to develop and implement an accredited educational activity, learning resource or tool.

The physician organization (CANOSC) has ultimate authority over all decisions and is accountable to ensure that the administrative, educational and ethical accreditation standards for group learning activities are met.

This webinar was co-developed with Allergan and CANOSC and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.

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Heather Finlayson, MD, FRCPC, Clinical Assistant Professor @UBC Division of Physical Medical & Rehabilitation in Vanouver, BC, Canada

Dr. Heather Finlayson is a physiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the UBC Division of Physical Medical & Rehabilitation in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She is the co-founder of the GF Strong Rehab Centre Interdisciplinary Spasticity Management Clinic and was a co-chair of the inaugural CANOSC meeting in 2019. She has sub-specialty diplomas in Sport and Exercise Medicine, EMG, and Medical Education. Her clinical interests include spasticity management, sports medicine, and electrodiagnostics. She is heavily involved in undergraduate and post-graduate medical education and is a member of the national specialty examination board.

Stefano Carda, MD, Associate @Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)

Associate MD, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) Dr. Carda obtained his post-graduate education in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in 2003. He has an extensive experience in neurological rehabilitation, gait analysis and spasticity treatment. He is in charge for the Spasticity Outpatient Clinic, Orthosis Evaluation Program and Neuromuscular practice at the University Hospital in Lausanne. He is also in charge for the residents’ training in neurological rehabilitation.

Rajive Reebye MD, FRCPC, Clinical Associate Professor @University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia

Dr. Rajiv Reebye is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) specialist and Clinical Associate Professor in the department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Reebye is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC) and holds a specialist certificate in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is an attending physician on the inpatient neuro-musculoskeletal program and on the outpatient acquired brain injury and neuro-musculoskeletal programs at GF Strong Rehabilitation Center, Vancouver, Canada. He is also a consulting physician in the spinal cord clinic at BC Children’s Hospital and at the UBC Multiple Sclerosis Clinic. Dr. Reebye is the director of the New Westminster Rehabilitation Medicine spasticity clinic- a community based spasticity clinic focusing on the treatment of patients with adult spasticity and also children with spasticity transitioning to adults.