10th Annual
Northern Kentucky
Traumatic Brain Injury Conference
Friday, March 18, 2016
The Faces of TBI – From Injury to Recovery
A Decade of Progress
Target Audience:
Brain injured survivors, their families, military/veterans,
healthcare professionals, attorneys, educators and students
Each speaker to include: 1) survivor story or experience AND 2) treatment ideas/methods
Objectives:
- Evaluate and appreciate the evolution of treatment and rehabilitative activities for traumatic brain injury in the last decade as they relate to effectiveness and progress toward positive life experiences. (Domain=Cognitive/Attitude; Level=Evaluation)
- Analyze the strategies for ongoing and longer term approaches for monitoring and improving the lives of traumatic brain injury survivors and their families. (Domain=Cognitive; Level=Analysis)
- Explain and commit to meeting the needs of the recovering traumatic brain injury survivor with current medical practice and non-traditional, holistic therapies. (Domain=Cognitive/Attitude; Level=Synthesis)
- Compare the variety of strategies contributing to functional improvement and critique their efficacy in management and recovery in traumatic brain injury. (Domain=Cognitive; Level=Evaluation)
7:30-7:50 / Pre-Conference Program – MUSIC by Boone County High School Choir
Registration, Continental Breakfast, Sponsor Exhibits, Raffles
BOONE RM
7:50-
8:00 / Welcome / Opening Remarks (10 min)
Chell Austin, Executive Director, BIAK
CAMPBELL RM
8:00-
9:00 / Featured Speaker (1 hr)
CAMPBELL RM
The Aging Faces of Brain Injury
Debra Braunling-McMorrow, PhD, Learning Services
and Belinda Cole, TBI Survivor
This topic is co-presented by an expert in brain injury and a woman experiencing the effects of aging with her brain injury. The current literature on the impact of aging will be discussed as well as sharing words of wisdom as one ages with brain injury and issues often not found in the literature. The concept of resiliency and its importance on a lifelong quality of life will also be discussed.
9:00-
9:15 / Break – Visit Exhibits & Raffle (15 min)
BOONE RM
TRACK 1 - Clinical / TRACK 2 - Clinical / TRACK 3– Survivor/Caregiver
CAMPBELL RM / KENTON RM / ELLIS RM
9:15-
10:00 / TBI and Suicide: What are the risks and how can we help?
Angela McKeone, MS, Provisionally Licensed Counselor
This presentation will review risk prevention in managing traumatic brain injury, therapeutic techniques, resources and current research. / TBI for Educators
Linda Alford,Regional Special Education Director;
Cindy Waden, PL Coach Behavior, Differentiation and Co-Teaching
This session will offer educators classroom strategies to use with children identified with TBI. / SUPPORT GROUP SESSION
TOPIC: Chronic Sorrow
Facilitators:
Amy Daniel, MSN, RN, CNOR, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital &
Callie Daniel, TBI Survivor
10:00-
10:15 / BREAK – Visit Exhibits & Raffle – BOONE RM (15 min)
10:15-
11:00 / Outpatient management of chronic severe TBI in children
Nathan Evanson, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, division of physical medicine & rehabilitation Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
This presentation will explore common issues that arise in children and adolescents with chronic TBI and give an overview of treatment options in this population. / Small, Novel and Aware:
somatic learning in recovery
Cynthia Allen, GCFP, STMI,Feldenkrais Practitioner and Integral Human Gait co-creator
The heart of recovery from TBI is neuroplasticity. Can the principles of somatic learning, as experienced through the Feldenkrais method, offer something different?
This session will explore how the quality of somatosensory input can be vital in shaping the quality of motor neuronal output and perhaps lower chronic tone or spasticity and improve functional outcomes. / Neurobehavioral based problems in TBI: clinical, behavioral and caregiver approaches to managing same
D. Bradley Burton,PhD
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Hannah M. Kersting, B.A. Clinical Psychology Graduate Student
Participants will be able to identify common behavioral issues associated with traumatic brain injury such as agitation, Neurogenic Emotional Disinhibition and lack of responsiveness, as well as identify the means to which those types of behaviors can be potentially managed.
11:00-
11:15 / BREAK – Visit Exhibits & Raffle – BOONE RM (15 min)
11:15-
11:30 / Buffet Lunch served in BOONE RM; Eat in CAMPBELL or KENTON RM
BRIDGES AWARDS (starting at 11:20 AM) – CAMPBELL RM
11:30-
12:30 / Luncheon Featured Speaker (1 hr)
CAMPBELL RM
Traumatic Brain Injury: Recovery and Complications
Ashok Poluri, MD, DABPMR
Medical Director-Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, HealthSouth of Northern Kentucky
and Joshua Blackaby, TBI Survivor
This presentation describes in detail recovery from TBI (physical and mental), common complications encountered with ways to prevent and treat them accordingly.
12:30-
1:15 / Featured Speaker (45 min)
CAMPBELL RM
The VA Team Approach to Addressing Military TBI
Isaac ankomaDarko, MD, TBI/Polytrauma Rehab Program Medical Director, Rehabilitation Care,
Cincinnati VA Medical Center; University of Cincinnati Affiliate: Physical Medicine and Rehab Associate Professor
Mild TBI is the signature wound of the wars abroad, specifically Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring Freedom(OEF), and operation new dawn (OND). Improvised explosive devices are the weapons of choice for the insurgent enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan. A significant number of soldiers are surviving these blast injuries due to improved torso protection, but are sustaining head and neck wounds that exceed those from previous wars. Moderate and severe traumatic head injuries may be easily identified and aggressively treated, but mild traumatic brain injuries (m-TBIs), or concussions and their symptoms may subtle. The VA TBI/polytrauma system has been established to address the problems posed by the sequelae of these blast injuries, and Cincinnati VAMC utilizes this team approach to tackle the difficulties the veterans encounter.
1:15-
1:30 / BREAK – Visit Exhibits & Raffle – BOONE RM (15 min)
Raffle Closes at 1:30 PM; Winners Posted by 2:15 PM
TRACK 1 - Clinical / TRACK 2 - Clinical / TRACK 3 – Survivor/Caregiver
CAMPBELL RM / KENTON RM / ELLIS RM
1:30-
2:15 / Not for Lawyers Only: What can be done for TBI survivors to help them live the maximum dignity and autonomy possible
Alice G. Rini, JD, MS, RN,Independent Consultant; Faculty (ret.) Nursing, Law
Issues important to attorneys, health care professionals, survivors and families will be addressed, such as special needs trust and other assistance / A Functional Neurology Approach to TBI: Using Real Time Treatment and Assessment
David Heuser, DC; DABCN
This presentation will give a brief description of functional neurology, assessing the TBI patient with instrumentation and physical exam, modalities of treatment and some videos of patient exams and stories. / Functional Approaches to Managing Memory and Cognitive Deficits in Individuals with
Traumatic Brain Injury
Janice Osborne Dowdy, MS/CCC-SLP,CBIS, Lead Speech-Language Pathologist, NeuroRestorative Ashland
This presentation will focus on ways individuals and caregivers can implement strategies and cueing that will improve independence with memory.
2:15-
2:30 / BREAK – Visit Exhibits – BOONE RM (15 min)
2:30-
3:30 / Featured Speaker (1 hr)
CAMPBELL RM
Damage Control in Traumatic Brain Injury
Norberto Andaluz, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati;
Director of Neurotrauma, University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgeon, Mayfield Clinic
This presentation will explain the phases of brain injury and the role of the neurosurgeon in treatment. Recent discoveries in the area of cortical spreading depressions will be reviewed as well as the link to traumatic brain injury outcomes. The need for improvement in monitoring secondary injuries will also be explored
3:30 / CLOSING REMARKS / EVALUATIONS