Webinar with Dr. Fay Horak and Dr. Martina Mancini
Join OHSU’s Dr. Fay Horak and Dr. Martina Mancini for a webinar entitled “Evidence-Based Fall Risk Assessment.”
December 4th, 2015 – 12:00-1:15pm
OBJECTIVES
• Learn how to differentiate the underlying systems’ contribution to balance problems and fall risk in patients
• Be able to identify high and low tech methods for fall risk analysis, including the potential of instrumented tests to appropriately direct intervention to reduce fall risk
• Discuss new research that can help advance your practice
• Learn how instrumented tests can be carried out in few minutes with automatic analysis and graphs of results compared to normal controls
Earn 1 hour of CEU credit over lunch!
Limited space left!
Register now – $55.00
Falls are the leading cause of injury death and the most common cause of nonfatal injuries, hospital visits, and nursing home admissions among older adults age 65 and over. Given the prevalence and negative impact of falls in quality of life, clinicians must be equipped with measures that are practical for use in clinical settings and accurate in prospectively predicting falls so that interventions can be provided to reduce fall risk.
Dr. Fay Horak – Professor of Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Behavioral Neuroscience, Director of Balance Disorders Laboratory – Portland VA Medical System and OHSU, Chief Scientist, Fellow – APDM
Dr. Horak holds a PhD in Physiology and Biophysics, an MS in Neurophysiology from University of Minnesota, and a BS in Physical Therapy from University of Wisconsin. Her background is in neural control of balance and gait and the effects of neurological disorders on motor control. She has received the prestigious MERIT award from the NIH, a rare Mary McMillan Research Award from the American Physical Therapy Association, and many national and international honorary research awards. She is past-president of the International Society of Posture and Gait Research and past-editor of Gait and Posture. She has over 200 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Martina Mancini – Senior Research Associate at Balance Disorders Laboratory, Department of Neurology, OHSU
Dr. Mancini received her doctoral degree in bioengineering at University of Bologna in Italy, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurology at OHSU. Her translational biomedical research focuses on objectively characterizing, understanding and monitoring mobility impairments in patients with neurological disorders with wearable sensors in order to develop tailored rehabilitation intervention, such as biofeedback-based solutions. She has presented at national and international meetings on topics related to balance and gait impairments in subjects with Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonism, as well as fall risk in healthy elderly. Her efforts involve active collaboration with researchers at the Engineering Department at University of Bologna, the University of Michigan, and OHSU. She recently received an NIH K99-R00 award from the National center for Medical Rehabilitation Research to characterize the physiology of gait disturbances during locomotion with body-worn sensors, and to determine whether vibrotactile biofeedback improves such gait disturbances in Parkinson’s disease in a laboratory and home environment.
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