This Virtual Live-Steam course is designed to Educate and empower health care providers regarding an interdisciplinary approach to children with lower limb differences, deformities and length discrepancies.
Target Audience
This conference is tailored towards Orthopaedic Surgeons, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physicians, Pediatricians and Family Physicians, Orthotists & Prosthetists, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physical Therapists.
Objectives
An attendee completing this course will be able to apply acquired skills and strategies to:
Identify the causes of pediatric lower limb differences (complex limb deformities)
Discuss the comprehensive management of children with lower limb differences
Describe an interdisciplinary team approach to managing children with lower limb differences
Review the role of physical rehabilitation in managing children undergoing limb lengthening
Identify the potential complications encountered during limb lengthening and strategies to avoid them
Live Stream
This course will be offered as a virtual conference. Login instructions along with the digital syllabus will be shared with the attendees a week before the meeting. Included in your registration fee is access to the course recordings on demand (Available within a week after the conference) for any session that you miss, available for 30 days after the course.
Course Chairs
Sanjeev Sabharwal, MD, MPH
Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics
Director, UCSF Pediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship
University of California, San Francisco
Director, Limb Lengthening & Reconstruction Center
