The Cambridge Amputee Rehab Meeting 2006
Madingley Hall, Madingley, Cambridge CB3 8AQ
Tuesday October 10th 2006
10.00:
Making light work of amputation
level assessment: optical techniques for predicting
tissue viability. Dr David
Harrison PhD, Dr Med Habil, FIPEM, Consultant Medical
Physicist and Head of Durham Unit, Regional Medical
Physics Department, University Hospital of North Durham
& Dr John Allen, BEng (Hons), MSc, PhD, Principal
Medical Physicist in Microvascular Measurement, Freeman
Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.
11.15:
Ethical and medicolegal dilemmas
in supply and withdrawal of prostheses & assistive
technology. Dr. Jai
Kulkarni, Consultant & Hon. Reader in Rehab
Medicine, Manchester DSC
12.00:
Review of
Medical Devices Directive and Potential new requirements in
Prosthetic and Orthotics Mr. Saeed Zahedi
OBE, Blatchford & Sons & BHTA
2.00:
Flexible polyurethane sockets for
trans-femoral, hip & knee disarticulations
amputations. Dr. Kevin D.
Murray, Prosthetist-Orthotist Lecturer, University of
Strathclyde
2.45:
Spinal cord stimulation in
critical limb ischaemia: Cochrane
Review.
Dr Dirk
Ubbink, Epidemiologist, Amsterdam Medical Centre,
Netherlands.
3.30:
Prosthetic and amputee rehab
training in Egypt.
Dr. Ashraf
Azer, SpR rehab medicine, Manchester
4.20:
Aulie knee for water activities
prostheses. Miss Laura
Callan, Prosthetist, Cambridge, Mr. Laurence Staegemann,
Prosthetist, Norwich & Dr. Stephen Kirker,
Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine ,
Cambridge.
4.40:
Calcaneal implantation &
rehabilitation after short transtibial
amputation. Miss
Alessandra Canal, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, & Miss
Lysa Downing, Senior Physiotherapist, Addenbrooke's
Hospital, Cambridge
Sponsors:
Chas
A Blatchford & Sons Ltd - Prosthetics &
Orthotics
© 2006
Stephen Kirker