ISCoS OT/PT SIGs SCI Pre-conference Day
"Implementation of WHO's Rehab 2030, Package of Interventions"
How do we implement available research into interventions in our daily work?
📅 Date: 8 October 2025
⏰ Time: 09:00–17:30
📍 Place: The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre (Meeting venue)
👥 Organisers: OT and PT ISCoS SIGs
An educational day with focus on implementation of research and to share clinical practice. Separate programs before lunch with OT and PT focus and a joint program in the afternoon. Targeted audience: advanced level for experienced SCI staff.
The ISCoS OT/PT SIGs SCI Pre-conference Day has been approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 6 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s).
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOCUSED MORNING PROGRAM
Time | Topic | Presenter | Rehab 2030 interventions |
9.00- 9.15 | Welcome and intro | OTSIG committee |
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9.15- 9.45 | Assistive technology, what’s new? | Monique Wijnen OT Adelante Rehabilitation center, The Netherlands Diana Vanmulken OT, Msc Adelante Rehabilitation center, The Netherlands. | Provision and training in the use of assistive products for self-care Provision and training in the use of assistive products for mobility Provision and training in the use of assistive products for communication |
9.45- 10.00 | The tenodesis grip and adaptive equipment for the tetraplegic hand Classification of tetraplegic hands. Interventions and adaptive equipment in a low income country perspective | Ass Prof Johanna Wangdell, OT, PhD, Sahlgrenska University hospital, Gothenburg Sweden Kamrunnaher Koly, OT, MSc, Department of Rehabilitation Science, BHPI,Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed(CRP), Dhaka, Bangladesh. | Assessment of Hand function.
Functional training for hand and arm use
Muscle-strengthening exercises |
10.00- 10.30 | Functional Arm-Hand Training Through Activities of Daily Living: The Power of Meaningful Activities | Ass Prof Annemie Spooren OT, PhD, Hasselt University, Belgium Nele Bertels, PhD student, Hasselt University, Belgium | Education and advice on self-directed exercises Functional training for hand and arm use |
10.30 -11.00 | Coffee break | ||
11.00- 11.30 | Work Participation: Reflections on occupational therapy assessments and opportunities for supporting inclusion and sustainability. | Ass Prof Lisa Holmlund, OT, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden | Vocational assessment Vocational counselling, training, and support Provision and training in the use of assistive products for work Modification of the workplace environment |
11.30- 12.00 | The Naked Truth: Independence, Intimacy & Bodily Autonomy after SCI. Introduction and how to facilitate independence related to sexuality, focus on bowel/bladder and menstruation management.
| Candice Smith, OT, Deputy Unit Manager, Spinal Unit @ Rita Henn & Partners. Rehab Program manager, and Vice-Chair, Southern African Spinal Cord Society. South Africa Iva Hradilova, Therapist for intimate life areas, Intimate Life Guarantor, Research Center Paralab, OT, Paraple Center, Prague, Czech Republick | ADL training Bladder and bowel management skills training Provision and training in the use of incontinence products Provision and training in the use of assistive products for self-care |
12.00- 12.30 | E-stim for Upper limb – hands on use Delivering intensive NMES and FES augmented upper limbs and hand rehabilitation -challenges and rewards. | Daniel Seebach, OT, Clinical Educator Department of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury, The Neuroscience Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet, Bodil Eskesen Center. Denmark Shiva Jamwal, MSc, Consultant OT, Director, INRES Ltd and Trust Telerehab Ltd, United Kingdom | Muscle power functions:Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (incl. functional electrical stimulation) |
12.30-13.30 | LUNCH | ||
PHYSIOTHERAPY FOCUSED MORNING PROGRAM
Time | Topic | Presenter | Rehab 2030 interventions
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9.00- 9.15 | Welcome and intro | SCIPT committee |
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9.15- 9.40 | Community based therapy | Dr Kholofelo Mashola, Senior Lecturer Department of Physiotherapy, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa | Carer and family training and support Participation focused interventions | |
9.40- 10.05 | Various modalities of electrical stimulation including FES, NMES, long-pulse stimulation and transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation in rehabilitation of individuals with spinal cord injury | Ines Bersch, PT PhD International FES Centre® for treatment, research &education, Swiss Paraplegic Centre Nottwil, Switzerland Head of : International FES Centre® for treatment, research &education | Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (incl. functional electrical stimulation) | |
10.05-10.30 | Enhancing SCI Rehabilitation: Leveraging Activity Patterns, Energy Expenditure, and Self-Reported Data from the Wheelability App for Improved Clinical Outcomes and Management of Secondary Complications | Ass Prof. Tobias Holmlund PT, PhD Division of Physiotherapy Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society Karolinska Institutet, Sweden | Education, advice and support for selfmanagement of the health condition Education and advice on self-directed exercises | |
10.30- 11.00 | Coffee break | |||
11.00- 11.30 | Assessments and Interventions for Trunk Muscle Function After SCI | Anne E Palermo, PT, DPT, PhD, Research Fellow, Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia | Assessment of balance Balance training Respiratory (breathing) exercises Respiratory muscle-strengthening exercises Muscle-strengthening exercises Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (incl. functional electrical stimulation) | |
11.3012.00 | From Research to Reality: Implementing Arm-Crank Exercise for SCI in Community Settings
| Ass Prof. Shin-Yi (Chloe) Chiou University of Birmingham, UK | Fitness training Assessment of exercise capacity Training of balance Participation focused interventions Education and advice on self-directed exercises | |
12.00-12.30- | Implementation of the Australian and New Zealand Physiotherapy guidelines for the Physiotherapy Management of people with SCI project | Ass Prof Joanne Glinsky, University of Sydney, Australia Ass Prof Jennifer Dunn, PT PhD, Senior Research Fellow, University of Otago, New Zealand | Education and advice on self-directed exercises Education, advice and support for healthy lifestyle Advice and support for self-management of the health condition Assessment of lifestyle risk factors | |
12.30-13.30 | LUNCH | |||
JOINT OT/PT AFTERNOON PROGRAM
13.30-13.45 | Introduction to Rehab 2023 Package of interventions | OT/PT Committee /Middleton? |
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13.45- 14.00 | To be confirmed | ||
14.00- 14.30 | Neuromodulation and strategies to prime the nervous system for change
| Ass Prof. Rebecca Martin, OTR/L, OTD Manager Clinical Research and Education. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Baltimore, Maryland, USA | Muscle power functions Functional training for hand and arm use Muscle-strengthening exercises Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (incl. functional electrical stimulation) |
14.30- 15.00 | How to provide a suitable wheelchair in a life time perspective, Results from using the Wheelchair check app | Ass Prof Matthijs F. Wouda, Physiotherapist, movement scientist, Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway Linda Valent, Occupational therapist, movement scientist, Heliomare Rehabilitation Centre. Senior researcher at the R&D department and OT at the SCI-ward, Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands | Provision and training in the use of assistive products for mobility Provision and training in the use of assistive products for pressure relief Advice and support for self-management of the health condition |
15.0015.30 | Coffee break | ||
15.30 -16.00 | How can we support persons with SCI to get an active daily life without pressure ulcers Prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers, summary of guidelines, tips and tricks from 25 years of clinical experience. | Emelie Butler, PT, PhD Carin Bergfeldt, OT Madde Stenius, Wound nurse, Aleris, Rehabstation Stockholm, Sweden | Assessment of the skin (incl. assessment of risk for skin damage) Provision and training in the use of assistive products for pressure relief Positioning for pressure relief Education, advice and support for self-management of the health condition |
16.00-16.30 | Wheelchair sports and Handbike to improve Participation | Ulla Bergner PT, MSc Physiotherapist SCI Department, Neurorehabilitation BG Unfallklinik Murnau, Germany Ingrid Kouwijzer, OT, PhD, Post-doctoral researcher Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Senior researcher, Reade Amsterdam The Netherlands | Participation focused interventions |
16.30-17.15 | Panel discussion How to implement research in practice and to Identify knowledge gap in clinic
Panel: OT:s: Lisa Holmlund, Johanna Wangdell, Rebecca Martin. PT:s: Melanie Harding , Tobias Holmlund, Annie Palermo , Ulla Bergner, Kholofelo Mashola | Chair: Ass Prof. Joanne Glinsky, PT,PhD University of Sydney, Australia |
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17.15- 17.30 | Closing and Summary | OT & PT SIG |
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17.30- 18.30 | Networking and drinks
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Registration Information
Registration fee: SEK 350 or GBP 25.00
Fees are exclusive of VAT which is applicable at 25%.
You can register for the pre-conference course as part of your main annual scientific meeting registration, or you can register for the pre-conference course only.
Format
Educational day with focus on implementation of research and to share clinical practice. OT and PT have separate programs before lunch and a joint program in the afternoon.
