Spinal Cord Injuries at ECPRM 2016
Despite the small number of persons with spinal cord injuries (SCI), according to WHO less than 0.1% of the population suffers by SCI, the management of SCIed persons challenges almost every aspect of the health system, the society, and almost every aspect of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine. How many times as PRM physicians haven’t we faced complicated issues post SCI concerning: the completeness or not of the somatic and autonomic nervous system lesion, education and health awareness of patients and their family members, heterotopic ossification and osteoporosis: better to prevent than treat, severe spasticity interfering with functionality, neurogenic bladder and bowel dysfunction and chronic pain deteriorating quality of life, women with SCI, sexuality, ageing, prognosis, and valuable exchange of experience and knowledge among different countries, these are some topics that you can enjoy during the special sessions on SCI and throughout the whole Congress in other SCI related sessions.
Dear colleagues it is my honor to invite you to particularly interesting sessions concerning SCI at the 20th European Congress of PRM that will be held in Estoril April 23rd till 28th.
Sunday April 24th
At 10.30-12.00 | Halls C3-C4
Anabela Ferreira (Portugal)
will present the “Clinical Assessment of Spinal Cord Injury” during the session coordinated by Joana Almeida: “Neurological Clinical Examination in PRM”.
At 13.00-18.00 | Halls C5-C6
Filipa Faria (Portugal)
will present “Patient Education on SCI” during the special session coordinated by Filipa Faria & Laurent Bensoussan: “Patient Education”.
Tuesday April 26th
At 17.00-18.30 | Auditorium
during the Session ESPRM with European Pain - Federation EFIC® a very interesting session will be coordinated by
Prof. Roberto Casale (Italy)
Chair of Pain and disability Committee: “Pain medicine and rehabilitation in SCI: two aspects of the same coin”.
Wednesday April 27th
[a day full of SCI topics]
At 08.30-10.30 | Auditorium
a plenary session with an introductory lecture by
Prof. Brigitte Perrouin Verbe (France)
on“Women and SCI”;
Carlotte Kiekens (Belgium)
will enlighten us on“Sexuality and disability” -and
Christina-Anastasia Rapidi (Greece)
on“Ageing with SCI”
At 11.00-13.00 | Auditorium
Athanasios Kyriakides (Greece)
will present
“Clinical and Radiological Predictors of Recovery after SCI: A Review”;
“Predictors of better health awareness in persons with SCI” by
Piotr Tederko (Poland) ;
“Twenty years of SCI rehabilitation in Lithuania” by
Alvydas Juocevicius (Lithuania) - and
“Epidemiological profile and management of traumatic SCI in Latvia” by
Anda Nulle (Latvia)
At 14.30-15.30 | Halls C5-C7
a special session on
PRM and people with Bladder and Bowel Disorders
with
Prof. Brigitte Perrouin Verbe giving answers in:
“Posterior sacral rhizotomy with anterior root stimulation, has a place in the management of
persons with SCI?” and
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Finally working for
a consensus on an Autonomic Dysreflexia European Medical Emergency Card,
we need all of you, interested in SCI, to come and comment on the final form of the card
presented by Christina-Anastasia Rapidi and
commented by the scholiasts: Brigitte Perrouin Verbe (France) & Nathalie Draulans(Belgium).
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Moreover on Wednesday,
oral presentation sessions on the topic of SCI
will take place following the above sessions, and
At 17.00-19.00 | Halls C1-C4
during LABS session
Frederic Brocard (France)
who is leading a basic and translational research group in the institute of neurosciences La Timone, Marseille, on rats and humans with SC lesions,
will present
“Preclinical Evaluation of New Therapeutic strategies to reduce spasticity”.
Looking forward to meet you in the SCI sessions @esprm2016
and interactively all together to give answers to questions and
common concerns dealing with individuals with SCI.
Christina-Anastasia Rapidi
Chair of SCI Committee of ESPRM
