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
OT AM PROGRAMME
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 and Diana Vanmulken OT, 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 | Johanna Wangdell, OT, PhD, Sweden Kamrunnaher Koly, OT, MSc, 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 | Annemie Spooren OT, PhD, and Nele Bertels, PhD student, 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. | Lisa Holmlund, OT, PhD, 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, South Africa. Iva Hradilová, OT, Czech republic
| 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, Denmark Shiva Jamwal, OT, MSc United Kingdom | Muscle power functions:Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (incl. functional electrical stimulation) |
12.30-13.30 | Lunch break | ||
PT AM PROGRAMME
Time | Topic | Presenter | Rehab 2030 interventions | |
9.00- 9.15 | Welcome and intro | SCIPT committee |
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9.15- 9.40 | Community based therapy | Kholofelo Mashola, PT, PhD 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-Porada, PT, PhD Switzerland | 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 | Tobias Holmlund, PT PhD, 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 | Annie Palermo PT, DPT, PhD, 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
| Shin-Yi (Chloe) Chiou, PT PhD United Kingdom
| 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 | Joanne Glinsky, PT PhD, Australia Jennifer Dunn, PT PhD, 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 break | |||
JOINT OT/PT AFTERNOON PROGRAMME
13.30-13.45 | Introduction to Rehab 2023 Package of interventions | OT/PT Committee |
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13.45- 14.15
14.15-14.30 | Neuromodulation and strategies to prime the nervous system for change
Discussion | Rebecca Martin, OT, PhD, 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 | Matthijs Ferdinand Wouda, PT, PhD, Norway Linda Valent, OT, PhD, 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 |
15.00-15.30 | 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 Carin Bergfeldt, OT Madde Stenius, Wound nurse, 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 Germany, Ingrid Kouwijzer, OT, PhD, The Netherlands | Participation focused interventions |
16.30-17.15 | Panel discussion How to implement research in practice and to Identify knowledge gap in clinic | Chair: Joanne Glinsky, Australia OT:s: Lisa Holmlund, Johanna Wangdell, Rebecca Martin. PT:s: Melanie Harding , Tobias Holmlund, Annie Palermo , Ulla Bergner, Kholofelo Mashola |
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17.15- 17.30 | Closing and Summary | OT & PT SIG |
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17.30- 18.30 | Networking 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.
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