PLATINUM SUITE - REEBOK STADIUM, BOLTON
Thursday 29th May 2008
9.00am
Registration and issue of Course materials
9.10am
Introduction, Aims and Objectives
9.20am
Orthopaedic Physicians’ Overview and Examination
- Shoulder injuries
- Knee injuries
- Examination techniques using International and silver Olympic medallist Peter Elliott MBE
9.50am
Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Overview
- Fractures – general overview
- Low back pain – advancement and acceleration
- Difficulties in diagnosis – a "second opinion"
10.30am
Questions
10.45am
Coffee
11.00am
Best Practice : The Legal Angle/Wrangle
- Common themes that should be improved upon
- How to avoid re-works
12.15pm
Questions
12.45pm
Lunch
1.30pm
Neurological Complications
- RTA/head injury trauma – epilepsy/headaches/memory assessment
- Whiplash associated neurological effects –(dizziness/diplopia/paraesthesia/Tinnitus)
2.00pm
Psychological Effects of RTA
- What questions to ask and what opinion and prognosis to give?
2.30pm
Illness behaviour – is it all in the mind?
- A physical and psychological overview
- When is it time to feel better?
3.15pm
Questions
3.30pm
Coffee
3.45pm
Future Developments with The Premex Group
- E-Community – Go for "IT"
4.30pm
Review of the Day, collection of Feedback material and Close
