Course curriculum

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    Welcome to the course!

    • Some questions before we begin...
    • Course description and outline
    • Required readings and resource review
    • Handouts
    • Suggested Measures for Review
    • Course Completion Time
    • Summary and NCS Prep Documents
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    Chapter 1. Medical Management and Clinical Syndromes

    • Topic 1. SCI Medical Management: A Rehabilitation Perspective
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 1.1
    • Topic 2. SCI Clinical Syndromes
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 1.2
    • Topic 3. Secondary Complications
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 1.3
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    Chapter 2. ASIA Testing

    • Handouts
    • Topic 1. Introduction to ASIA Testing
    • Topic 2. The Sensory Assessment
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 2.2
    • Topic 3. The Motor Assessment
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 2.3
    • Topic 4. The Anorectal Assessment
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 2.4
    • Topic 5. Synthesizing Findings
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 2.5
    • Topic 6. Determining Injury Completeness & ZPP's
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 2.6
    • Topic 7 Video Tutorials: The Sensory Assessment
    • Assessment of light touch at C5 (intact)
    • Assessment of light touch at C8 (impaired)
    • Assessment of light touch at L3 (absent)
    • Assessment of sharp:dull at C8 (intact)
    • Assessment of sharp:dull at C5 (impaired)
    • Assessment of sharp:dull at L3 (absent)
    • Topic 8 Video Tutorials: The Motor Assessment
    • Topic 8. C5 motor (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. C5 motor (score 2)
    • Topic 8. C5 (score 1 )
    • Topic 8. C6 motor (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. C6 motor (score 2)
    • Topic 8. C7 (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. C7 (score 2)
    • Topic 8. C8 (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. C8 (score 2)
    • Topic 8. T1 Motor (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. T1 motor (score 2)
    • Topic 8. L2 motor (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. L2 motor (score 2)
    • Topic 8. L3 motor (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. L3 motor (score 2)
    • Topic 8. L4 motor (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. L4 motor (score 2)
    • Topic 8. L5 motor (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. L5 motor (score 2)
    • Topic 8. S1 motor (score 3-5)
    • Topic 8. S1 motor (score 2)
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 2.8
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    Chapter 3. Prognosis

    • Topic 1. Functional Potentials - Mobility
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 3.1
    • Topic 2. Functional Potentials - Wheelchair Mobility
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 3.2
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    Chapter 4. Ambulation after SCI

    • Topic 1. Ambulation after SCI
    • van Middendorp SCI ambulation CPR
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 4.1
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    Chapter 5. Video Tutorials

    • Transfer videos
    • Wheelchair Skills
    • Assisted Coughing
    • Tenodesis
    • Pressure reliefs: C5 Pressure Relief
    • Prone on Elbows as Pre-Requisite to Supine to Long Sit Transfer (Cervical Injury)
    • Prone Scapular Strengthening (Cervical Injury)
    • Supine to long sit through posterior elbow position (Cervical Injury)
    • Rolling with a Bed Ladder (Cervical Injury)
    • Rolling and pre-requisite skills (Cervical Injury)
    • Prone on elbows (Cervical Injury)
    • Long sitting lateral scooting on mat (Cervical Injury)
    • Leg Management onto the mat (Cervical Injury)
    • Bilateral and unilateral UE balance and strengthening in long sitting (Cervical Injury)
    • Adapted Vehicle for Driving (Thoracic Injury)
    • Balance Activities Long Sitting (Thoracic Injury)
    • Leg Range of Motion (Thoracic Injury)
    • Mat to Chair lateral scoot transfer (Thoracic Injury)
    • Self Hamstring Stretching with Gait Belt (Thoracic Injury)
    • Sliding Board Transfer (Thoracic Injury)
    • Supine to long sitting and self stretching (Thoracic Injury)
    • Transfer to the mat and rolling to prone (Thoracic Injury)
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    Chapter 6. Knowledge Checks for Required Readings

    • Kahn, 2016 - SCI EDGE
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 6.1
    • Mulroy, 2011 - STOMPS
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 6.2
    • van Middendorp, 2011 - ambulation CPR
    • Knowledge Checks Lesson 6.3
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    Next steps

    • Post Course Survey
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    March 2, 2020 - Mentoring, Case 1 Description and Questions

    • Brief Patient Description, SCI Case 1
    • Assessment and Prognosis, SCI Case 1
    • Assessment Results and Assessment Plan, SCI Case 1
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    March 2, 2020 - Mentoring, Case 2 Description and Questions

    • Brief Patient Description
    • Assessment and Prognosis, SCI Case 2
    • Assessment Results and Assessment Plan, SCI Case 2
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    March 2, 2020 - SCI Mentoring (Recorded Discussion)

    • March 2, 2020: SCI mentoring
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    SCI Journal Club (Recorded session)

    • November 25th - STOMPS Journal Club
    • November 30, 2020 SCI Journal Club
    • December 14, 2020 SCI Mentoring