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Start Date: 04/27/2017 Time: 08:00 AM -
09:30 AM Room: Track: Assitant's Workshops Speaker/s: Louis DeCaro DPM Moderator: Description: Hands-on workshop for clinical assistants. This lecture combined with a hands on lab helps the practitioner or medical assistant identify the basic biomechanical principles of the foot and lower extremity as a function of gait, and recognize the affect pathological foot conditions have upon normal gait. Goals for attendees are to not only be able to select an appropriate foot type, but to be able to select the appropriate orthotic design and selection based on pathological foot-type. The attendee will learn to perform visual static and dynamic gait analysis, interpreting key weight bearing compensations in order to differentially interpret a patient’s foot type. Attendees are taught how to implement the algorithmic process to classify an individual’s foot into one of 6 major foot, or “quad” types. Learning Objectives: -Learn how to implement a algorithmic process for biomechanical evaluation - Understand how to "foot type" patients in order to understand their pathologies - Learn about how callous pattern, gait style all fall into specific patterns which help explain chief complaints - Learn how easy a correct orthotic prescription can be written - |
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