2018 Program & Schedule

(Buses depart form the Convention Center at Noon)

• Basic Financial Accounting—How to Read a Financial Statement (B1-A)
• Overhead Reduction Strategies (B1-B)
• The Top 5 Things to Know About Your Business to Survive and Succeed (B1-C)

• Opening General Session

Keynote: Tobie Hatfield, Director of Innovation – Nike

• Thranhart Lecture Series (C2)
  • Significant Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Cranial Remolding Orthoses in Infants with Deformational Plagiocephaly (C2-A)
  • Comparative Effectiveness of Microprocessor and Energy Storing Prosthetic Ankles (C2-B)

• Top Ten Series (B2)
• Outcomes and Evidence-Based Practice in P&O: How You are Documenting Value in Your Clinic and Using it to Improve Reimbursement (C3)
• Top Ten Insights for Making and Keeping Your Pedorthic Practice Successful – Part 1 (P1)
• A Modular Approach to Dynamic Bracing (T1) / O&P Fabrication Challenges in Developing Countries (T2)

• Compliance in a Changing World (B3)
• Update on the Evidence for Benefits of Microprocessor-Controlled Knees in Limited Community Ambulators: Review of the Literature, Results of the Current Studies, and Future Research Projects (C4)
• Triplanar Management to Achieve Optimal Skeletal Alignment and Orthotic Outcomes: An Observation from the Orthotist, Physical Therapist and Patient (C5)
• The Development and Utility of ReLoad: A Mobile Sensor System of Auditory Feedback for Gait Deviation Detection and Correction for Lower Limb Amputees (C6)
• Top Ten Insights for Making and Keeping Your Pedorthic Practice Successful Part 2 (P2)
• Proven Fabrication Techniques over Rigid Foam Positive Models (T3) / Future Tech (T4)

• Regulatory / Legislative Update (B4)
• A Step Forward in Prosthetic Care – A Free Paper Session (C7) / Socket Design–The Foundation of Prosthetic Care Free Paper Session (C10)
• Pediatric and Adolescent Bracing Free Paper Session (C8) / Spinal Orthoses Free Paper Session (C11)
• Integrating Outcomes Measures to Improve Patient Care (C9)
• Modifiable Premades / Certification / Accreditation (P2 Continued)
• Blood in Custom Laminated Sockets: More Than Just a Freckle? (T5) / “Finding Your Way” Developing and Utilizing Standards in the Fabrication Setting (T6)

• Award Winning Hamontree Lectures (B5)
  • Successful Contract Negotiations (B5-A)
  • Organizational Mission Possible: Top Ten Developmental Impacts with Increasing Employee Engagement and Lean Strategies (B5-B)
  • Top 10 Ways to Get and Keep Your Money (B5-C)
  • Certified Orthotists and Prosthetists: Product Supplier or Knowledge Based Healthcare Professional? (B5-D)
• Technology for Geriatrics (C12)
• Clinically Relevant Diagnostic Measures to Determine AFO Ankle Joint Stiffness with an Instrumented AFO (C13)
• WHO Standards for Prosthetics and Orthotics (Policy, Products, Personnel, & Provision) (C14)
• Top Ten Insights for Making and Keeping Your Pedorthic Practice Successful Part 3 (Continued)
• Getting Your Feet with O&P 3D Printing (T7)
  • How Can 3D Printing Not be Disruptive? (T7A)
  • Design of Upper-Limb Prostheses using 3D Printing and Scanning Technologies (T7B)

• Strengthening the O&P Profession through Development and Activism (B6)
• Prosthetic Socket Design Impact on the Amputee User in the Laboratory and Clinic (C15)
• Multi-disciplinary Panel on Rehabilitation of the Paretic Arm (C16)
• Record Keeping (P3 Continued) / Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Common and Rare Conditions (P4)
• Scanning and CAD Software (T8)
  • Realistic Implementation of CAD and Adaptive Manufacturing Techniques for the Individual O&P Practitioner (T8A)
  • Scanning and CAD Software Round Table (T8B)

• Business Management for Today’s O&P Facility (B7)
• Socket Design–The Foundation of Prosthetic Care (C17) / Balance and Pain (C20)
• Lower Limb Orthoses Free Paper Session (C18) / Upper Limb Orthoses Free Paper Session (C21)
• Future Possibilities in Amputation Surger (C19)
• Preventing the Destruction of the Diabetic Foot / Managing Hanson’s Disease (P4)
• CAE, CAM, and Printing Workshop (T9)
  • The Effect of Material Choice and Process Parameters on the Mechanical Strength of 3D-Printed Transtibial Prosthetic (T9A)
  • Where the Virtual Rubber Meets the Real Road: A Basis Understanding of CAM Software and Running a 3D Printer (T9B)

• Orthotics 2020
• Mike Schultz, Paralympic Gold Medalist

• Best Business Practices (B8)
• Approved Clinical Mentor (ACM) Training Workshop – Part 1 (B9)
• Advances in Upper-Limb Control Technologies (C22)
• Shining A Light on the Role of Spasticity in Diplegic Cerebral Palsy—Part 1 (C23)
• How the Functional Lower-Limb Amputee Gait Assessment Can Improve Rehabilitation Prescription and Patient Outcomes (C24)
• Research in the Pedorthic World (P5)
• Advanced Prosthetic Fabrication Techniques (T10) / 3D Printing Recap & Roundtable (T11)

• Shining A Light on the Role of Spasticity in Diplegic Cerebral Palsy—Part 2 (C25)
• Approved Clinical Mentor (ACM) Training Workshop – Part 2 (B10)
• Manufacturers’ Workshops – Tier G