Touch Our Minds
International Congress of Portuguese Association of Physiotherapists - Manual Therapy Special Interest Group - 18 - 20 October 2002 - Estoril - Portugal

 

Final Scientific Program 

1st Day
Friday, October 18th

08.00 - Opening Secretariat

09.30 - Opening Ceremony

10.00 - 1. Main Lecture: Chairperson- João Vasconcelos Abreu
Patient’s Perspectives of Low Back Pain, Prof. Ann Moore

10.40 - Discussion

10.50 - Coffee Break

11.20 - Invited Papers Session: Chairperson- Annelies Pool
Low Back Pain management- a randomised controlled trial,Prof.h Ann Moore, Lucy Goldby 

11.40 - A randomised controlled trial of spinal manipulation and ultrasound for chronic low Back pain: Subgroup analysis and relationships between outcome measures, Mohammad A Mohseni-Bandp

12.00 - Grades of movement Revisited, Nicola Petty

12.20 - Discussion

12.30 - Lunch

14.00 - Invited Papers Session: Chairperson- Isabel Rasgado Rodrigues
Quantitative Measurements of Lumbar Range of motion, Mike Troke

14.20 - Ultra sound monitoring of the Muscles of Anterior Abdominal Wall in Low Back Patients , Steve Bunce

14.40 - Measurements of Peripheral nerve motions using ultra sound, Alan Hough

15.00 - New perspectives of abdominal musculature, Susan Mercer

15.20 - Discussion

15.30 - 2.Main Lecture: Chairperson- Prof. Ann Moore
Pain production, pain perception influences on pain management, Prof. Gerbrand Groen

16.10 - Discussion

16.20 - Coffee Break 

16.50 - Invited Papers Session: Chairperson- Peter Bolens
Functional Assessment of the Shoulder. Three dimensional scapulo-humeral rhythm as a clinical parameter, Prof. Augusto Gil Pascoal 

17.10 - Gleno-humeral joint instability, Lucy Redhead

17.30 - Ankle Functional Stability- Effects of tapping, José Esteves

17.50 - Discussion

18.30 - Welcome Cocktail




2 nd Day
Saturday, October 19th

09.00 - Invited Papers Session: Chairperson- José Marcelino
Upper Cervical Stability Tests- Validity and reliability, Kareen Beeton

09.20 - Clinical Models and the Morphology of the Adult Thoracic Intervertebral Disc, Susan Mercer 

09.40 - Preseason Training of the Hamstrings Muscles in Elite Male Soccer Players: Effects on Strength, speed and Occurrence of Hamstrings injuries, C Askling, J Karlsson, A Thorstensson

10.00 - Discussion

10.10 - 3.Main Lecture: chairperson- Prof. Gerbrand Groen
Occupational health, ergonomics and musculoskeletal therapist, Dr.Jeffrey Boyling

10.50 - Discussion

11.00 - Coffee Break

11.30 - Invited Papers Session: Chairperson- Drª. Jane Greening
A hypothetic Deductive Approach in a Case Study, Isabel Rasgado Rodrigues

11.50 - Clinical Reasoning of Experienced neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapist`s in the management of Acute Low Back Pain Patients, Eduardo Cruz

12.10 - The focus of expert and novice neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapist`s diagnostic reasoning, Catherine Doody

12.30 - Discussion

12.40 - Lunch

14.10 - 4.Main Lecture: Chairperson- Mark Comerford
New Topics in Pelvic Research, Annelies Pool

14.50 - Discussion

15.00 - Clinical Workshops 

15.10 - Workshop 1:Clinical Reasoning and Assessment-Prof. Ann Moore; Nicola Petty

15.10 - Workshop 2: Repetitive Strain Injury- Assessment and Treatment-Drª. Jane Greening

15.10 - Workshop 3: Minding the worker-Dr. Jeffrey Boyling

16.10 - Coffee Break

16.40 - 5. Main Lecture: Chairperson- Dr. Jeffrey Boyling
Minor Nerve Injury: an underestimated source of pain, Drª Jane Greening

17.00 - Discussion

20.00 - Conference Dinner

18.00 - IFOMT Meeting


3rd Day
Sunday, October 20th

09.00 - Invited Papers Session: Chairperson- João Vasconcelos Martins
Sympathetic changes in upper limb following second rib mobilization, João Vasconcelos Abreu

09.20 - A comparison of trunk flexion range of motion in standing position after applying “Matos Manouvre” and the Slump Test, Nuno Matos

09.40 - The Knee Joint- Simple Rehabilitation of a Complex Joint, José Marcelino

10.00 - Discussion

10.10 - 6. Main Lecture: Chairperson- Agneta Lando 
Movement Dysfunction, Mark Comerford

10.50 - Discussion

11.00 - Coffee Break

11.30 - Panel – MusculoSkeletal Challenge Chairperson- Marina WallinParticipants: Ann Moore; Mark Comerford; Gerbrand Groen; Annelies Pool

12.30 - Closing Ceremony


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