Thank you to all delegates, sponsors and exhibitors who attended ANZSCoS 2008.

 

Abstract Presentations

Thursday 27 November
9.15am - 10.00am

Tim Geraghty - Autologous Olfactory Ensheathing Cell Transplantation In Human Paraplegia: A 3 Year Clinical Trial
David Berlowitz - Sleep Health In Tetraplegia – Polysomnographic Characteristics Of A Community Population
Robert Boland - Peripheral Nerve Plasticity After Spinal Cord Injury

11.35am - 12.05pm
Kathryn Nicholson Perry - Developing A Statewide Strategy For Psychosocial Care Of People With Spinal Cord Injury
Michelle Myberg - Exploring The Therapeutic Relationship In Transitional Rehabilitation: Contexts, Teams And Power

2.00pm - 3.30pm, Stream A
Andrew Hall - Asking Questions: The key to successful Rehabilitation
Elizabeth Vale - Caring for Caregivers
Melissa Kendall - The Intersection Of Injury In The Lives Of Friends And The Role Of Rehabilitation In Reconnecting Life Paths
Anne Sinnott - The development of an Independent Living transitional programme at the Burwood Spinal Unit.
Gillian Hogan - Community Rehabiltation Notes - A 'Living Document'
Greg Ungerer - Spinal Cord Injuries Response – Breaking Down Barriers

2.00pm - 3.30pm, Stream B
Ruth Marshall - Circulating Soluble Receptor Activated Nuclear Receptor Kappa B Ligand (Rankl) Levels Of Adult Males With Spinal Cord Injury
S P Mohanty - Effect of posterior instrumentation of thoracolumbar and lumbar burst fractures on canal remodeling and neurological recovery
Karen Marshall - Enteral Nutrition within 72 hours after Spinal Cord Injury: Complexities and Complications
Richard Little - Robotic Mobility Aid
Christine Cullen - How Can We Prevent Elbow Flexion-Supination Contractures In Patients With C5/6 Quadriplegia
Sridhar Atresh - The Use of Botulinum Toxin for adult lower limb spasticity in ambulatory Spinal Cord Injury

Friday 28 November
9.15am - 10.00am
Richard Smaill - Ageing With a Spinal Cord Injury.  Qualitative Study of 12 People Injured Longer Than 25 Years
Cathie Skulander and Jennifer Greenaway - Nursing for Prevention in the Ageing Spinal Population
Jennie Johnson - Mortality-Can Hindsight Inform Rehabilitation Planning?

11.15am - 12.30pm
Peter Stewart - To Sit Or Not To Sit: The Challenge Of Pressure Ulcer Prevention And Management In Spinal Rehabilitation Units
Claire Boswell-Ruys - Training people with chronic spinal cord injuries to sit unsupported
Simone Robinson-Di Francesco - The Effects Of The Burn Rubber Burn Program On Muscle Strength, Cardiovascular Health And Psychological Wellbeing Following Spinal Cord Injury
Joanna Fadyl - Exploring decisions about work after spinal cord injury
Arron Perriam - Wheels In Work - Early Intervention (Acute/Rehab Setting) Vocational Rehabilitation

1.30pm - 3.30pm
Ruth Marshall - Developing an agreed taxonomy for Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
Anne Sinnott - International Classification of Function Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) – the consumer perspective in New Zealand.
Martin Sullivan and Sarah Derrett - Establishing Partnership and Building Research Capacity: the subtext to the plot
Maria Low - The Interface between Rehabilitation and Palliative Care Services
Michelle Ede - Pacific Island Style
Karla Cooper - Sex Intimacy and Spinal Cord Injury
Wayne Forrest - My Experiences on a Back-Up New Zealand Course
Peter Ray - Backwards to the Future?