ISPO - Iran

انجمن بین المللی ارتز و پروتز در ایران

The first ISPO Training Course: Rehabilitation in Lower Limb Amputation

November 2011, IRAN, Tehran -

Jointly organized by ISPO Iran, ISPO International, the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), the Iranian Orthopaedic Association (IOA) and the Undersecretary General of Health, Treatment and Rehabilitation, this Short Course on the Rehabilitation of Lower Limb Amputation took place from 28 November to 1 December 2011 in Teheran. The international, multidisciplinary ISPO faculty included Harmen van der Linde, Jan Geertzen, Marcel Conradi, Anton Johaesson and GertUno Larsson, who presented a course program consisting of a two day instructional course and a one-day workshop on manufacturing lower limb prostheses. The first of its kind to be organized in the region, the course gathered about 250 professionals (prosthetists/orthotists, prosthetic and orthotic technicians, orthopaedic surgeons, general physicians, occupational and physiotherapists). The program was well received and included the following key topics: the state of art methods on amputation surgery, phantom pain and pain management, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, prosthetic fundamentals, psychology on lower limb amputation, biomechanics, and rehabilitation in society.

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