Movement Disorders Update: Focus on Falls 2017
In-Person Event
Oct 20, 2017
Livonia, Michigan, USA
OVERVIEW
Movement Disorders Update: Focus on Falls is organized by University of Michigan Health System-Office of Continuous Professional Development and would be held on Oct 20, 2017 at Laurel Manor, Livonia, Michigan, United States of America.
The target audience for this medical event for primary care physicians, geriatricians, neurologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and physician assistants who see patients with neurological problems. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Course Description :
This course will focus on neurologic causes of falls and balance problems, including Parkinson disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus, ataxia, psychogenic gait disorders, neuromuscular causes, and dizziness/vertigo. Specifically designed for the busy clinician, this course will provide attendees with high-yield information and clinical pearls for recognition, diagnosis, assessment and management of neurological problems contributing to falls. Participants will benefit from the expertise of University of Michigan Medical School faculty, who will give a didactic lecture for each topic that includes case presentations so that participants can experience how course faculty approach cases in their own practice. The morning and afternoon sessions will end with a panel discussion so that participants have ample time to ask questions.
Conference Objectives are :
• Identify major risk factors for patients with falls/gait disorders and review an assessment and intervention plan for these patients
• Describe how to evaluate and treat falls in patients with Parkinson disease
• Describe how to evaluate patients with suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus, vascular parkinsonism, and freezing of gait
• Identify features suggestive of psychogenic gait disorders
• Recognize when patients might have a neuromuscular cause for their falls
• Define ataxia and recognize clinical symptoms suggesting a cerebellar cause for falls
• Describe how to evaluate the patient who complains of dizziness and balance problems
The target audience for this medical event for primary care physicians, geriatricians, neurologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and physician assistants who see patients with neurological problems. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Course Description :
This course will focus on neurologic causes of falls and balance problems, including Parkinson disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus, ataxia, psychogenic gait disorders, neuromuscular causes, and dizziness/vertigo. Specifically designed for the busy clinician, this course will provide attendees with high-yield information and clinical pearls for recognition, diagnosis, assessment and management of neurological problems contributing to falls. Participants will benefit from the expertise of University of Michigan Medical School faculty, who will give a didactic lecture for each topic that includes case presentations so that participants can experience how course faculty approach cases in their own practice. The morning and afternoon sessions will end with a panel discussion so that participants have ample time to ask questions.
Conference Objectives are :
• Identify major risk factors for patients with falls/gait disorders and review an assessment and intervention plan for these patients
• Describe how to evaluate and treat falls in patients with Parkinson disease
• Describe how to evaluate patients with suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus, vascular parkinsonism, and freezing of gait
• Identify features suggestive of psychogenic gait disorders
• Recognize when patients might have a neuromuscular cause for their falls
• Define ataxia and recognize clinical symptoms suggesting a cerebellar cause for falls
• Describe how to evaluate the patient who complains of dizziness and balance problems
KEY DATES
20 Oct, 2017
Event Start Date
20 Oct, 2017
Event End Date
SPECIALITIES
Primary CarePsychologySUGGESTED HOTELS
CONFERENCE VENUE
Laurel Manor
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