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ISCP 2014<br />
7 - 8 November<br />
Croke Park, Dublin<br />
Exercise & Innovation<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
Welcome from Main Sponsor 2<br />
Welcome Message from Jill Long, ISCP President 3<br />
Welcome Message from Dr Emma Stokes, ISCP Director of Professional Development 4<br />
Welcome Message from Alison Quinn, Conference Committee Chairperson 5<br />
Official Opening Address by Professor Karen Middleton 7<br />
Main Conference Programme 8<br />
Session Synopses and Speaker Biographies – Friday 12<br />
Session Synopses and Speaker Biographies – Saturday 21<br />
Oral Research Presentation Sessions 29<br />
Posters 30<br />
Exhibitor Listing 40<br />
Conference Floor Plan 41<br />
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WELCOME MESSAGE FROM GLENNON INSURANCE<br />
AND AIG<br />
MAIN CONFERENCE SPONSOR<br />
Glennon Insurance and AIG are pleased to welcome all delegates to the 2014 Irish Society of<br />
Chartered Physiotherapists Annual Conference in Croke Park, Dublin.<br />
Glennon Insurance and AIG are now in the second year of providing ISCP members with<br />
professional indemnity insurance and other insurances. We are very pleased to be working with<br />
ISCP and its members and we hope to be providing you with insurance advice into the future.<br />
We hope that you all enjoy the conference and we would be happy to meet you at our stand in<br />
the exhibition area to answer any questions you may have.<br />
Stephen Byrne<br />
Glennon Insurance<br />
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Welcome Message from<br />
Jill Long, ISCP President<br />
I am delighted to welcome you all to the ISCP Annual<br />
Conference 2014 in the Croke Park Conference Centre.<br />
On behalf of the Society I wish to thank the members of the<br />
2014 conference committee and ISCP staff for putting<br />
together such a stimulating <strong>programme</strong>. This year’s<br />
conference theme of “Exercise and Innovation” is a<br />
message that every chartered physiotherapist can promote<br />
locally. We are experts in exercise, movement and mobility<br />
and what makes us unique is our clinical knowledge of how<br />
a person’s physical and mental health can affect a person’s<br />
ability to exercise. We can support people to exercise in<br />
safe and innovative ways and achieve the best health<br />
possible for them throughout the lifespan, whether they are<br />
recovering from illness or surgery, whether they have a<br />
disability or a long term chronic disease, whether they are<br />
trying to live a healthier life or are an elite athlete.<br />
I am delighted to welcome Professor Karen Middleton to<br />
give our opening address on Friday. Karen, a<br />
physiotherapist herself, became CEO of the Chartered<br />
Society of Physiotherapy in February 2014. Prior to taking<br />
up this role she was the Chief Professions Officer for<br />
England. She is passionate about the value of our<br />
profession and the need for all of us to exert locally the<br />
influence of a profession based on quality employment and<br />
the highest standards of clinical practice, education and<br />
research. This requires strong leadership and she will be<br />
asking “Where is the leader in you?”<br />
The keynote addresses are on a variety of exercise-related<br />
topics: “Twenty-first century pulmonary rehabilitation: are we<br />
delivering?” Prescription of exercise in Pain Modulation,<br />
Rehabilitation following Spinal Surgery and Multi-Morbidity<br />
Management. I hope that these lectures, the parallel<br />
sessions and poster presentations will inspire you to<br />
innovate in exercise therapy.<br />
We also have great sessions on entrepreneurship and<br />
connecting through social media.<br />
As well as the scientific <strong>programme</strong>, the annual conference<br />
also features the Society’s AGM. There are many<br />
challenges ahead; we are constantly being challenged to<br />
consider new ideas, new evidence and new ways of<br />
delivering our service. It is important to have both an<br />
individual and a collective voice. The Society is the voice of<br />
physiotherapy in Ireland. So please make an effort to<br />
attend, meet the Board and discover what we are doing on<br />
your behalf and on behalf of our profession.<br />
Our exhibitors support our conference and inform us of the<br />
many new products and systems available to us. Please visit<br />
them in the exhibition area over the next two days.<br />
I will be attending the whole of the event, together with<br />
other Board members and ISCP staff, and we look forward<br />
to meeting as many of you as possible.<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
Jill Long<br />
ISCP President<br />
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WELCOME MESSAGE FROM DR EMMA STOKES,<br />
ISCP DIRECTOR OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT<br />
It is hard to believe a year has gone by since our last conference<br />
in Killarney and this year, once again, we have an excellent<br />
<strong>programme</strong>.<br />
We draw on speakers from Ireland and beyond and our<br />
conference opening address will be delivered by Prof Karen<br />
Middleton. Karen will speak about leadership and she has led the<br />
way for many years but most recently as the first woman and first<br />
physiotherapist to take up the position of CEO of the Chartered<br />
Society of Physiotherapy. Karen delivered an inspiring Founders’<br />
Lecture at PhysioUK in October 2014 and I have no doubt she<br />
will inspire & challenge us all to find the leader within us.<br />
It is a great pleasure to welcome our other international speakers<br />
- Dr Rachel Garrod, Tom Arild Torstensen & Prof Alison<br />
McGregor. The topics of their lectures - pulmonary rehabilitation,<br />
exercise prescription for pain modulation and rehabilitation post<br />
spinal surgery - are key areas for many physiotherapists and it is<br />
always stimulating to hear the latest research and thinking on<br />
these areas of practice. Day-to-day, we are faced with patients<br />
and clients who present will a number of coexisting chronic<br />
conditions and this will continue to become the norm. So the<br />
lecture to be delivered by Prof Susan Smith, who is from closer to<br />
home at the Royal College of Surgeons’ Centre for Primary Care<br />
Research, will be relevant to almost everyone who is attending the<br />
conference.<br />
Our other speakers include Dr Joe McVeigh from the University<br />
of Ulster and Editor of Physiotherapy Research and Practice, the<br />
Society’s journal, and Gerard Greene, are presenting a topic<br />
which is growing in its impact - the use of social media as a way<br />
of disseminating research. Having connected with both of them<br />
on twitter and Facebook, I know this will be an informative and<br />
interactive session so bring your handheld devices!<br />
Our parallel sessions cover a broad spectrum of exercise<br />
prescription, current trends in elite sports medicine, women’s<br />
health and enhancing engagement and performance in the<br />
profession - something for everyone.<br />
We had over 136 abstracts submitted for this year’s conference.<br />
This offers a great opportunity to showcase our own research. We<br />
have retained the very popular ‘poster walks’ and we also have a<br />
series of oral presentations from a range of researchers which<br />
focus on innovative solutions in physiotherapy and the evolving<br />
role in practice.<br />
May I acknowledge the considerable work done by the<br />
conference committee: Dr Rose Galvin, Anthea Seager, Joy<br />
Varghese, Colm Brannigan, Grainne Sheill, Barry McEntee,<br />
Conor Walsh and CSP Northern Ireland representative Dr<br />
Fidelma Moran, under the able guidance of Alison Quinn. Also<br />
offer sincere thanks to our team of reviewers of our abstracts:<br />
Colm Brannigan, Dr Marese Cooney, Dr Tara Cusack, Fiona<br />
Daly, Dr Helen French, Dr Rose Galvin, Dr Sara Hayes, David<br />
Hegarty, Dr Frances Horgan, Dr Dara Meldrum, Aine Ryan,<br />
Anthea Seager, Joy Varghese and Mary Walsh. In addition, I<br />
would like to sincerely thank the staff of the Professional<br />
Development Unit; Stephen Swanton, Orla Barry and Máirín<br />
Carroll, who have supported the conference organisation.<br />
Content is key to the quality of a conference and this year is<br />
no exception but a conference is also a time to catch up with<br />
friends, create new connections and develop our network.<br />
Enjoy the wonderful surroundings of Croke Park, engage with<br />
the industry exhibition and make the most of the coffee<br />
breaks, lunches and of course and the evening reception.<br />
Dr Emma Stokes<br />
ISCP Director of Professional Development<br />
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WELCOME MESSAGE FROM ALISON QUINN,<br />
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON<br />
On behalf of the organising committee, I am delighted to<br />
welcome you all to the Irish Society of Chartered<br />
Physiotherapists’ Annual Conference 2014 at Croke Park, the<br />
theme of which is “Exercise and Innovation”.<br />
There are lots of exciting things happening in physiotherapy<br />
recently, both in our traditional areas of treatment and<br />
rehabilitation and in other fields such as entrepreneurship and<br />
social media. Therefore we have added two sessions to our<br />
<strong>programme</strong> this year highlighting what is going on in these<br />
areas and how it is applicable to our work. In addition we have<br />
an exciting and varied line up of national and international<br />
speakers all experts in their chosen fields including<br />
cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, multi-morbidity and pain<br />
modulation.<br />
We also have expert speakers in our parallel sessions whose<br />
topics range from exercise and rehabilitation in different patient<br />
groups to issues in elite sport and professional performance.<br />
Our student session aims to provide information on working at<br />
home and abroad in addition to CV enhancement.<br />
We have had an unprecedented number of poster submissions<br />
this year which shows the increasing amount of research taking<br />
place in physiotherapy and how we can use that information to<br />
inform, promote and develop our practice.<br />
This conference would not be possible without a number of<br />
people who I would like to sincerely thank. The conference<br />
would not be possible without them. Firstly thanks to the hard<br />
work, inspiration and dedication of the committee members.<br />
Secondly thanks to our sponsors and exhibitors who support<br />
our conference. Thirdly, thanks to our speakers and researchers<br />
who are providing us with a great <strong>programme</strong> this year.<br />
And finally I would like to thank you, our members and<br />
delegates, for supporting our conference this year and for<br />
representing our fantastic profession in your daily work.<br />
Enjoy.<br />
Alison Quinn SMISCP MSc<br />
Chairperson, ISCP Conference Organising Committee 2014<br />
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Official Opening of 2014 Annual Conference:<br />
PROF KAREN MIDDLETON CBE<br />
Chief Executive of the Chartered Society<br />
of Physiotherapy<br />
Karen Middleton joined the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) as chief executive in February 2014<br />
and has been a regular commentator on health policy. In her last post, which she held for almost seven<br />
years, Karen was chief health professions officer at NHS England and Department of Health, leading<br />
more than 80,000 physiotherapists and other allied health professionals in the NHS and other sectors.<br />
She graduated in physiotherapy in London in the mid-1980s, initially specialising in musculoskeletal<br />
therapy before moving into rehabilitation and then becoming associate director of primary care in Tower<br />
Hamlets, east London in 1999, where she managed the community nursing workforce.<br />
From there she moved to the London Directorate for Health and Social Care as a primary care<br />
development manager. In 2003 she joined the Department of Health as allied health professions advisor<br />
before being appointed as chief health professions officer four years later. Karen has fellowships from the<br />
CSP and the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine now known as the Society of Musculoskeletal Medicine,<br />
and in early 2014 was made visiting professor at Leeds Beckett University in the faculty of health and<br />
social sciences. Karen also holds honorary doctorates from City, Hertfordshire, Keele and Brighton<br />
Universities. In October 2014 Karen was elected President<br />
of the Society of Musculoskeletal Medicine. The Chartered<br />
Society of Physiotherapy is the UK’s professional,<br />
educational and trade union body and has 52,000<br />
members.<br />
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME<br />
FRIDAY 7 TH NOVEMBER<br />
8.00 Hogan Mezzanine Foyer<br />
Registration<br />
9.00 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Opening address: Prof Karen Middleton (CEO of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy)<br />
Where is the leader in YOU?<br />
With Introduction from Jill Long, ISCP President<br />
Session Chair: Alison Quinn<br />
9.30 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Keynote Address: Dr Rachel Garrod (Kings College London and St Georges and Kingston University,<br />
Faculty of Health Care)<br />
Twenty-first century pulmonary rehabilitation: are we delivering?<br />
Session Chair: Alison Quinn<br />
10.20 Hogan Mezzanine I<br />
T/C Break with Exhibition Viewing<br />
11.00 Parallel Sessions<br />
Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Workshop: Dr Rachel Garrod<br />
Goal setting and motivation in<br />
pulmonary rehabilitation<br />
Session Chair: Dr Fidelma Moran<br />
Hogan Mezzanine Foyer<br />
Facilitated Poster Pitches<br />
A) Exploring the Role of the<br />
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist<br />
Facilitated by: Colm Brannigan<br />
OR<br />
B) Physiotherapy Interventions in<br />
Cancer & Palliative Care Settings<br />
followed by<br />
Falls & Frailty in the Elderly<br />
Population<br />
Suite 682<br />
Lecture Session: Assessment and<br />
intervention in: Gait<br />
abnormalities (Dr Ailish Malone)<br />
Paediatric obesity (Grace O’Malley)<br />
Dyspraxia (Ann Somers)<br />
Session Chair: Anthea Seager<br />
Facilitated by: Grainne Sheill<br />
12.10 Lunch: Nally & Canal Foyers<br />
13.30 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Panel Discussion: “Who wants to be an entrepreneur?”<br />
Innovation and Entrepreneurship panel discussion chaired by Dr Emma Stokes<br />
Panellists: John Moore (CEO, 3D4Medical), Aoife Ni Mhuiri (Founder, Salaso [formerly SportsClinicPlus]),<br />
Ciara Clancy (CEO, Beats Medical), Prof Brian Caulfield (Dean of Physiotherapy, UCD)<br />
14.25 Hogan Mezzanine Foyer<br />
Poster viewing<br />
14.50 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Keynote Address: Tom Arild Torstensen (Founder, Holten Institute, Sweden)<br />
Prescription of exercise in pain modulation<br />
Session Chair: Cillin Condon<br />
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*Programme may be subject to change
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME<br />
FRIDAY 7 TH NOVEMBER<br />
15.30 Hogan Mezzanine I<br />
T/C Break with Exhibition Viewing<br />
16.05 Parallel Sessions<br />
Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Workshop:<br />
Tom Arild Torstensen<br />
Practical application of exercise in<br />
pain modulation<br />
Session Chair: Cillin Condon<br />
Suite 684<br />
Research Presentations:<br />
Innovative solutions in<br />
physiotherapy practice<br />
Session Chair: Grace O’Malley<br />
Suite 682<br />
Lecture Session: Assessment and<br />
prescription of exercise in: Bone<br />
health (Dr Caitriona Cunningham)<br />
Cancer (Dr Julie Broderick)<br />
Diabetes<br />
(Dr Grainne O’Donoghue)<br />
Session Chair: Joy Varghese<br />
17.15 Canal Foyer<br />
Wine Reception<br />
19.30 Player’s Lounge<br />
Reception and Annual Society Dinner<br />
*Programme may be subject to change<br />
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME<br />
SATURDAY 8 TH NOVEMBER<br />
8.00 Hogan Mezzanine Foyer<br />
Registration<br />
9.00 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Keynote Address: Prof Alison McGregor, Imperial College London<br />
Rehabilitation following spinal surgery<br />
Session Chair: Dr Fiona Wilson<br />
09.50 Hogan Mezzanine I<br />
T/C Break with Exhibition Viewing<br />
10.30 Hogan Mezzanine II Suite 682<br />
ISCP AGM/EGM<br />
Student Session:<br />
11.30 Parallel Sessions<br />
Mind the Gap: Enhancing your CV<br />
(Lara Bourton Cassidy)<br />
Go for it - Just say yes! A graduate’s<br />
experience of grasping work opportunities<br />
at home. (Niamh McGowan)<br />
Working In Canada. Experiences and Q&A<br />
(Mary Walsh)<br />
Session Chair: Conor Walsh<br />
Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Lecture Session: Aoibhín McGreal and<br />
Teresa Costello<br />
Diastasis rectus abdominis in<br />
Women’s Health and MSK - Do’s<br />
and Dont’s<br />
Session Chair: Joy Varghese<br />
Suite 684<br />
Research Presentations:<br />
The evolving role of<br />
physiotherapy practice and<br />
education<br />
Session Chair: Sinead McMahon<br />
Suite 682<br />
Lecture Session:<br />
Assessment and prescription of<br />
exercise in: Dizziness (Dr Dara<br />
Meldrum)<br />
Physical disability (Dr Deirdre Murray)<br />
Stroke (Dr Olive Lennon)<br />
Session Chair: Dr Frances Horgan<br />
12.40 Lunch: Nally & Canal Foyers<br />
14.00 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Keynote Address: Gerard Greene (Coventry University and Owner Harborne Physiotherapy Clinic) &<br />
Dr Joe McVeigh (University of Ulster)<br />
Research and Physiotherapy: How Social Media Savvy are you? Time to get connected!<br />
Session Chair: Dr Emma Stokes<br />
15.00 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Keynote Address: Prof Susan Smith, Department of General Practice and HRB Centre for Primary Care Research, RCSI<br />
The challenge of multimorbidty<br />
Session Chair: Dr Rose Galvin<br />
*Programme may be subject to change<br />
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME<br />
SATURDAY 8 TH NOVEMBER<br />
15.45 Hogan Mezzanine Foyer<br />
Poster Viewing<br />
16.05: Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Lecture Session: Cameron Steele<br />
Current trends in Elite Sports<br />
Medicine - What’s applicable to<br />
Private Practice?<br />
Session Chair: Barry McEntee<br />
Suite 682<br />
Parallel Session<br />
Dr Mary Collins EdD<br />
Enhancing performance and<br />
engagement levels in the<br />
professional sector<br />
Session Chair: Lara Bourton Cassidy<br />
Hogan Mezzanine Foyer<br />
Facilitated Poster Pitches<br />
Lifestyle and group interventions<br />
throughout the lifespan<br />
Facilitated by: Dr Olive Lennon<br />
OR<br />
Physiotherapy management of<br />
neurological conditions<br />
Facilitated by: Dr Rose Galvin<br />
17.15 Closing remarks<br />
*Programme may be subject to change<br />
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FRIDAY 7 TH NOVEMBER<br />
9.00 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Opening address: Prof Karen Middleton - CEO of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy<br />
Where is the leader in YOU?<br />
With Introduction from Jill Long, ISCP President<br />
Session Chair: Alison Quinn<br />
Where is the leader in YOU?<br />
Through this presentation, Prof Middleton will make the case for why robust leadership is critical for patients<br />
and the public we serve, for delivering sustainable services and for the survival of our profession in a context<br />
where demand for healthcare is growing and resources are diminishing. Prof Middleton will draw on her<br />
experience of exploring leadership as part of her own leadership journey and the lessons she has learnt –<br />
and is still learning! She will call for more physiotherapists to step up to the leadership challenge and to<br />
translate their inherent leadership skills into becoming the leaders and active followers our healthcare system<br />
needs today.<br />
PROF KAREN MIDDLETON CBE<br />
Chief Executive of the Chartered Society<br />
of Physiotherapy<br />
Karen Middleton joined the Chartered<br />
Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) as chief<br />
executive in February 2014 and has<br />
been a regular commentator on health<br />
policy. In her last post, which she held for almost seven<br />
years, Karen was chief health professions officer at NHS<br />
England and Department of Health, leading more than<br />
80,000 physiotherapists and other allied health<br />
professionals in the NHS and other sectors. She graduated<br />
in physiotherapy in London in the mid-1980s, initially<br />
specialising in musculoskeletal therapy before moving into<br />
rehabilitation and then becoming associate director of<br />
primary care in Tower Hamlets, east London in 1999,<br />
where she managed the community nursing workforce.<br />
From there she moved to the London Directorate for Health<br />
and Social Care as a primary care development manager.<br />
In 2003 she joined the Department of Health as allied<br />
health professions advisor before being appointed as chief<br />
health professions officer four years later. Karen has<br />
fellowships from the CSP and the Society of Orthopaedic<br />
Medicine now known as the Society of Musculoskeletal<br />
Medicine and in early 2014 was made visiting professor at<br />
Leeds Beckett University in the faculty of health and social<br />
sciences. Karen also holds honorary doctorates from City,<br />
Hertfordshire, Keele and Brighton Universities. In October<br />
2014 Karen was elected President of the Society of<br />
Musculoskeletal Medicine. The Chartered Society of<br />
Physiotherapy is the UK’s professional, educational and<br />
trade union body and has 52,000 members.<br />
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9.30 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Keynote Address: Dr Rachel Garrod - Kings College London and St Georges and Kingston University, Faculty of<br />
Health Care<br />
Twenty-first century pulmonary rehabilitation: are we delivering?<br />
Session Chair: Alison Quinn<br />
Twenty-first century pulmonary rehabilitation: are we delivering?<br />
Dr Garrod’s lecture will consider a number of issues pertinent to the delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation in<br />
the 21st Century. It will review the evidence for pulmonary rehabilitation drawing heavily on the newly<br />
published BTS guidelines that comprehensively considers a range of clinical questions regarding rehabilitation<br />
<strong>programme</strong>s. The lecture will focus on recommendations concerning the efficacy of rehabilitation, referral<br />
and assessment processes, the role of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with respiratory disease other<br />
than COPD and efficacy of commonly used adjuncts. In addition Dr Garrod will consider the use of modern<br />
technology within the context of pulmonary rehabilitation and apply evidenced based behaviour change<br />
techniques such as monitoring, feedback and goal setting to the rehabilitation setting.<br />
At the end of this session participants will have knowledge concerning the effectiveness of pulmonary<br />
rehabilitation and its place in the management of respiratory disease and the ability to help patients achieve<br />
maximal long lasting benefits.<br />
DR RACHEL GARROD, PhD.<br />
MSc. MCSP, Kings College<br />
London and St Georges and<br />
Kingston University, Faculty of<br />
Health Care.<br />
Rachel Garrod graduated from Guys in<br />
1991. Since being awarded a PhD in pulmonary<br />
rehabilitation in 2001 she has developed a strong clinical<br />
and research career. As Assistant Professor in<br />
Physiotherapy, St George’s University she led on<br />
undergraduate and post graduate respiratory teaching and<br />
research. With over 50 peer reviewed publications, a<br />
number of book chapters and as editor of “Pulmonary<br />
Rehabilitation: An interdisciplinary approach”, she is an<br />
international expert on COPD and Pulmonary<br />
Rehabilitation. In 2009 she returned to the clinical setting<br />
as a Consultant Respiratory Physiotherapist at Kings<br />
College Hospital, London, there she was the research and<br />
clinical lead for COPD physiotherapy services. She has<br />
recently completed a large study of exercise after surgery<br />
for lung cancer and is the lead investigator for a study<br />
evaluating the effect of physiotherapy as a treatment for<br />
chronic cough.<br />
Rachel moved to Spain in 2013, she continues to oversee<br />
her research projects in the UK and is presently employed<br />
as non-medic research facilitator for Kings College<br />
Hospital, working remotely and with frequent visits to the<br />
UK.<br />
Rachel’s area of expertise focuses on the delivery of<br />
exercise for people with chronic health problems, on<br />
breathing retraining and physical activity therapies for<br />
people with cardio-respiratory conditions, on the<br />
management of breathing disorders such as asthma,<br />
hyperventilation, and its associated panic disorders.<br />
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11.00<br />
Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Hogan Mezzanine Foyer<br />
Workshop: Dr Rachel Garrod Facilitated Poster Pitches<br />
Goal setting and motivation in A) Exploring the Role of the<br />
pulmonary rehabilitation Musculoskeletal<br />
Physiotherapist<br />
Session Chair: Dr Fidelma Moran<br />
Facilitated by: Colm Brannigan<br />
OR<br />
B) Physiotherapy Interventions<br />
in Cancer & Palliative Care<br />
Settings followed by<br />
Falls & Frailty in the Elderly<br />
Population<br />
Facilitated by: Grainne Sheill<br />
Suite 682<br />
Lecture Session: Assessment and<br />
Intervention in:<br />
Gait abnormalities<br />
(Dr Ailish Malone)<br />
Paediatric obesity<br />
(Grace O’Malley)<br />
Dyspraxia (Ann Somers)<br />
Session Chair: Anthea Seager<br />
Goal setting and motivation in pulmonary rehabilitation<br />
Session Speaker: Dr Rachel Garrod<br />
This workshop will help participants identify ways in which to utilise evidence based behaviour change<br />
techniques in the clinical setting. Drawing on Machie’s taxonomy of behaviour change techniques we will<br />
explore effective methods of implementation in the clinical environment. Participants will work through<br />
vignettes designed to develop the implementation of behaviour change skills applicable to exercise<br />
rehabilitation. Participants will be asked to draw on their experience to discuss the pros and cons of such<br />
approaches in a respiratory population.<br />
Participants will consider the application of some or all of the following strategies on their practice/ field: Goal<br />
setting; Action Plans; Providing feedback; Provision of rewards; Monitoring and feedback. Networking and<br />
shared learning will be facilitated.<br />
Assessment & Intervention in: Gait Abnormality, Paediatric Obesity &<br />
Dyspraxia<br />
Exercise prescription is one of the cornerstones of physiotherapy management across all clinical specialities.<br />
Few patients leave therapy without partaking in an exercise <strong>programme</strong>, whether it consists of stretching,<br />
strengthening, cardiovascular training or repetitive practice of a specific task. However, defining the criteria<br />
for effective prescription of exercise based on individual patient assessment, while building a framework of<br />
overarching clinical guidelines for different conditions, remains extremely complex. Although many exercises<br />
can be described in parameters such as duration, intensity, load, number of repetitions and so on, the end<br />
result of what the patient actually does with these instructions depends on a range of factors that are harder<br />
to define. A further challenge is the ability of physiotherapists to be specific in the expected gains of a<br />
<strong>programme</strong>: beyond the general assumption that exercise is universally beneficial, what exactly are we trying<br />
to influence? Exercise prescription in children provides particular challenges in this context. The aim of this<br />
session is to consider the scientific basis of exercise as an intervention for children with abnormal gait, obesity<br />
and dyspraxia. We will summarise and discuss the findings of research to date, consider the many<br />
“unknowns”, and determine how the art of exercise prescription can inform and progress an emerging<br />
science.<br />
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DR AILISH MALONE PhD, MISCP<br />
Dr Ailish Malone (née McDermott) graduated from UCD<br />
in 2002 with a BSc (First Class Honours) degree in<br />
Physiotherapy. She completed her PhD at RCSI in 2012.<br />
She currently works in the Gait Laboratory at the Central<br />
Remedial Clinic, Dublin, and previously at Beaumont<br />
Hospital from 2002 to 2012, specialising in neurosurgery.<br />
In 2008 she was awarded a Health Research Board<br />
Fellowship for her PhD project entitled “Gait impairment in<br />
cervical spondylotic myelopathy: analysis, impact on<br />
function and effect of surgical intervention”. Ailish’s clinical<br />
and research interests relate to the scientific understanding<br />
of impairment, assessment and measurement of outcome<br />
in gait, balance and movement disorders.<br />
MS GRACE O’MALLEY MSc,<br />
Grace O’Malley MSc, PT is a paediatric<br />
physiotherapist working at Temple Street<br />
Children’s University Hospital. She<br />
specializes in the assessment and<br />
evidence-based management of<br />
children and adolescents who are obese<br />
and is the Director of the Temple Street<br />
W82GO Healthy Lifestyles Programme. She is a HRB<br />
Clinical PhD Fellow and Student of Epidemiology and<br />
Public Health at University College Cork and her research<br />
interests include the pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes in<br />
youth; the co-morbidities of obesity and the use of remote<br />
technologies and telemedicine in obesity management.<br />
Grace is the Chair of the Association for the study of<br />
Obesity on the Island of Ireland (www.asoi.info) and a<br />
Board member of the European Childhood Obesity Group<br />
(http://www.ecog-obesity.eu/).<br />
MS ANN SOMERS MSc. MISCP<br />
Ann Somers (MSc, BSc., MISCP) is a Senior Physiotherapist<br />
with experience working in paediatric physical, cognitive<br />
and developmental disability settings involving both early<br />
intervention and school aged populations. She also has<br />
experience working with a paediatric PCCC caseload. She<br />
has recently completed her MSc. in Clinical Therapies with<br />
the University of Limerick, with an emphasis on Paediatrics.<br />
Part of this course included a postgraduate certificate<br />
course on DCD through the University of South Wales.<br />
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13.30 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Panel Discussion: “Who wants to be an entrepreneur?”<br />
Innovation and Entrepreneurship panel discussion chaired by Dr Emma Stokes<br />
Panelists: John Moore (CEO, 3D4Medical), Aoife Ni Mhuiri (Founder, Salaso [formerly SportsClinicPlus]), Ciara<br />
Clancy (CEO, Beats Medical), Prof Brian Caulfield (Dean of Physiotherapy, UCD)<br />
Who wants to be an entrepreneur? Innovation Panel Discussion<br />
This session will explore entrepreneurship within the health sector. Four Irish entrepreneurs/innovators will<br />
guide us through what their company does, what inspired them to do what they do and how they made it<br />
work! Attendees will hear about the lessons they learnt along the way and about what keeps them going in<br />
business as well as getting the opportunity to pose their own questions to the panel.<br />
MS CIARA CLANCY, MISCP,<br />
CEO and Founder of Beats<br />
Medical<br />
Ciara Clancy is the CEO and Founder<br />
of Beats Medical, a healthcare<br />
company providing technology<br />
solutions to People with Parkinson’s.<br />
Ciara holds a BSc in Physiotherapy and a Diploma in<br />
Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Before founding Beats<br />
Medical, Ciara worked as a sponsored athlete (dancer)<br />
for Nike promoting sport and the brand cross Europe. She<br />
then worked with people with Parkinson’s both clinically<br />
and through Parkinson’s charities before enveloping the<br />
European Patent Pending Beats Medical technology.<br />
In 2013, Ciara was awarded Enterprise Ireland’s Female<br />
Entrepreneur Award and in 2014 was accepted as a<br />
member of the prestigious Astia Global Network for her<br />
work with Beats Medical. Beats Medical is now recognised<br />
as a High Potential Start Up by Enterprise Ireland. Ciara is<br />
a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and is conducting<br />
ongoing research there. Ciara is passionate about<br />
promoting patient self-efficacy and physical activity<br />
through technology.<br />
MS AOIFE NÍ MHUIRÍ, MISCP,<br />
Founder, Salaso Health<br />
Solutions – formerly<br />
SportsClinicPlus<br />
Aoife Ní Mhuirí is a Chartered<br />
Physiotherapist and Founder of Salaso<br />
Health Solutions (formerly SportsClinicPlus). She holds a<br />
BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy and an MSc in Sports<br />
Medicine from Trinity College Dublin. Aoife spent 10 years<br />
as physiotherapist to the Kerry Senior Football Team during<br />
which time Kerry won 3 all-Ireland titles and she is a<br />
member of the GAA’s National Player Medical, Scientific<br />
and Welfare Committee. She lectures on the Health and<br />
Leisure <strong>programme</strong> at the Institute of Technology in Tralee<br />
and was responsible for the establishment of the highly<br />
successful Adapted Physical Activity Aquatic Rehabilitation<br />
Programme at Tralee in partnership with Chartered<br />
Physiotherapists in the Kerry area. The <strong>programme</strong> links<br />
therapeutic health service delivery and education and is<br />
viewed as a model of best practice in the delivery of<br />
exercise and adapted physical activity services to patients<br />
with significant physical disabilities and advanced disease<br />
states. Her professional interests and passion include the<br />
engagement of patients with exercise rehabilitation. In<br />
2011 she established SportsClinicPlus to develop<br />
multimedia based software solutions aimed at supporting<br />
patients in turning physiotherapy advice and home exercise<br />
routines into daily habits. The company rebranded as<br />
Salaso Health Solutions earlier this year. The Salaso<br />
exercise prescription software is gaining traction with<br />
physiotherapists both in Ireland and the UK and the<br />
company is recognised by Enterprise Ireland as a High<br />
Potential Start Up (HPSU).<br />
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MR JOHN MOORE, Chief Executive Officer,<br />
3d4Medical<br />
John Moore is the owner and CEO of the world’s most<br />
successful producer of medical, health and fitness desktop<br />
and mobile apps. 3D4Medical was founded by John<br />
Moore and is an Irish based company that has notable<br />
had achievements over the past several years, including:<br />
• over 15 million downloads on desktop and mobile<br />
• 8 Million users<br />
• 19 apps have reached number 1 in medical or<br />
health categories on desktop and iPad<br />
• Number 1 app in 95 countries.<br />
• Number 1 grossing app on iOS, MAC, Windows 8<br />
and Android<br />
PROF BRIAN CAUFIELD, MISCP, Dean of<br />
Physiotherapy, UCD<br />
Professor Brian Caulfield leads University College Dublin’s<br />
Connected Health Programme. He is the Lead Investigator<br />
in Ireland’s industry led Connected Health Technology<br />
Centre, ARCH (www.arch.ie) and is a Director of Ireland’s<br />
largest research centre, the INSIGHT centre for Data<br />
Analytics (www.insight-centre.org), where he leads the<br />
Connected Health research <strong>programme</strong>. A physiotherapist<br />
by training, Brian is also Dean of Physiotherapy at UCD.<br />
Brian is a champion for a Connected Health ecosystem in<br />
Ireland and has forged strong relationships with key<br />
clinicians, industry leaders, policy makers and research<br />
groups to drive advances in the field. Previously, he was a<br />
PI in the CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies<br />
(www.clarity-centre.org) and Director of the TRIL Centre<br />
(www.trilcentre.org), a research centre focused on<br />
technologies for independent living, which was funded by<br />
Intel and GE Healthcare. As well as these companies, he<br />
has worked with a range of multinational and start-up<br />
companies such as BioMedical Research Ltd, Fujitsu<br />
Laboratories, and Shimmer to deliver innovative<br />
technology enabled solutions for areas such as<br />
rehabilitation medicine, COPD, and gerontology. His<br />
research has led to significant commercial opportunities<br />
in terms of exploitation of intellectual property by industry<br />
partners and spin out activity.<br />
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14.50 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Keynote Address: Tom Arild Torstensen (Founder Holten Institute, Sweden)<br />
Session Title: Prescription of exercise in pain modulation<br />
Session Chair: Cillin Condon<br />
Prescription of exercise in pain modulation<br />
Exercise is one of the cornerstones of physiotherapy, but there is a need to differentiate between patients<br />
suffering from pain and those without pain. Using typical strength training principles for patients suffering<br />
from a pain condition is questionable, because of both physiological and psychological reactions to pain<br />
and central nervous system inhibition making it difficult to make strong muscle contractions. Thus, for patients<br />
with pain a new concept has been developed; exercise for the modulation of pain. The goal is to activate<br />
the body’s own pain modulating systems increasing the production of endogenous neuropeptides in CNS.<br />
To be successful, psychological reactions to the pain experience must also be addressed. Graded exercises<br />
which are pain free or close to pain free are important to increase the patients level of self-efficacy decreasing<br />
fear of movement, hyper-vigilance, anxiety and depression. Nociceptive inputs are inhibited. Patients with<br />
acute or long term pain have to exercise with pain, but the pain experience during and after the exercise<br />
treatment has to be acceptable. Exercise for the modulation of pain is effectively applied in groups of 4-5<br />
patients where the physiotherapist is in the “pain modulation room” for an hour supervising the patients. This<br />
approach is called medical exercise therapy.<br />
MR TOM ARILD TORSTENSEN<br />
MNFF, Founder, Holten<br />
Institute<br />
Tom Arild has a post graduate degree<br />
in manual therapy (tilsvarende stäg III i<br />
Sverige) and is a qualified teacher in<br />
manual therapy in Norway. In 2001, he<br />
finished a MSc study at The University of Bergen in Norway.<br />
After the founder of Medical Exercise Therapy, Oddvar<br />
Holten, retired in 1989,Tom Arild was the owner of the<br />
physiotherapy clinic in Oslo, Holten Institutt for medisinsk<br />
treningsterapi, from 1989 to 1999. Today, Tom Arild is<br />
living in Stockholm, Sweden where he combines research<br />
with clinical work to further develop the use and the<br />
integration of Medical Exercise Therapy and general<br />
exercise therapy treating different patient categories. The<br />
owner of the Holten Institute course<br />
management/kunnskapsformidling, Tom Arild Torstensen<br />
is from Norway and graduated in 1983 with a degree in<br />
physiotherapy from Ulster University, Belfast, Northern<br />
Ireland.<br />
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16.05<br />
Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Workshop:<br />
Tom Arild Torstensen<br />
Practical application of<br />
exercise in pain modulation<br />
Session Chair: Cillin Condon<br />
Suite 684<br />
Research Presentations:<br />
Innovative Solutions in<br />
Physiotherapy Practice<br />
Session Chair: Grace O’Malley<br />
Suite 682<br />
Lecture Session: Assessment and<br />
prescription of Exercise in:<br />
Bone health<br />
(Dr Caitriona Cunningham)<br />
Cancer (Dr Julie Broderick)<br />
Diabetes (Dr Grainne O’Donoghue)<br />
Session Chair: Joy Varghese<br />
Practical application of exercise in pain modulation<br />
Session Speaker: Mr Tom Arild Torstensen<br />
Global exercises working large muscle groups are important to activate the body’s own pain modulating<br />
systems opening up ”the chemist shop” in the patient s brain. Adding semi-global and local exercises,<br />
unloading a part of the body, makes it possible to exercise pain free or close to pain free as well as increasing<br />
the total exercise dosage and results in the improved self-efficacy and decreased fear avoidant behaviour.<br />
Building on the work covered in the previous session this parallel will look at how the Medical Exercise<br />
Therapy approach to treating patients with a pain condition can be implemented (using the examples of<br />
graded <strong>programme</strong>s for Shoulder and Knee pain).<br />
Assessment & prescription of exercise in: Bone Health,<br />
Cancer & Diabetes<br />
This session will provide an overview of the evidence, rationale and practicalities relating to exercise<br />
prescription for three commonly encountered conditions; pre-diabetes/diabetes, cancer as well as<br />
osteopenia/osteoporosis. The presenters will commence with three condition-specific presentations, consisting<br />
of the following areas - pre-screening, exercise dosage, special considerations and outcome measurement.<br />
The presenters will aim to primarily provide a practical session applicable to clinical practice and service<br />
development but will also provide an overview of the evidence and highlight future research directions. This<br />
will be followed by an open forum, where the presenters will be available to answer questions and generate<br />
discussion around these topics.<br />
DR CAITRIONA CUNNINGHAM , PhD, MSc<br />
Dr Caitriona Cunningham is a Lecturer at University<br />
College Dublin (UCD) School of Public Health,<br />
Physiotherapy and Population Science. As a graduate of<br />
UCD’s B.Physio <strong>programme</strong>, she gained extensive clinical<br />
physiotherapy experience in Ireland the UK and USA.<br />
Specialising in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, she<br />
completed her MSc (Neuromusculoskeletal Physiotherapy)<br />
at University College London in 1997, also gaining<br />
membership to the Manipulative Association of Chartered<br />
Physiotherapists (UK) at that time. She completed her PhD<br />
at University College Dublin in 2007 and has continued to<br />
conduct research in relation to occupational<br />
musculoskeletal disorders, most recently focusing on<br />
Musculoskeletal Disorders among farmers. Her current<br />
research interests also include bone health and fracture<br />
prevention. She has disseminated her research<br />
findings widely in international, refereed journals and at<br />
national and international research meetings. She<br />
continues to coordinate and teach across both<br />
undergraduate and graduate Physiotherapy <strong>programme</strong>s<br />
with a focus on musculoskeletal disorders, exercise and<br />
promotion of physical activity. She is currently completing<br />
a Professional Diploma in University Teaching and<br />
Learning at UCD, is actively involved in curriculum review<br />
and enhancement and is committed to knowledge<br />
transfer to a wider community. Key research interests:<br />
occupational LBP, occupational musculoskeletal disorders,<br />
bone health and fracture prevention, promotion of active<br />
lifestyles<br />
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DR GRAINNE O’DONOGHUE,<br />
PhD, MSc<br />
Grainne O’Donoghue was awarded a<br />
BSc (Physio) in 1998, completed an<br />
MSc in Sports Medicine in 2005 and<br />
was awarded her doctorate in 2011.<br />
She is currently employed as a postdoctoral<br />
researcher, working on two EU funded projects.<br />
DEXLIFE (Diet and Exercise for Life) (FP7 funded) and<br />
DEDIPAC (A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life) (JPI / HRB<br />
funded). DEXLIFE investigates new mechanisms of<br />
prevention of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle intervention in<br />
subjects with pre-diabetes or at high risk for progression<br />
(www.dexlife.eu) and DEDIPAC, determinants of diet,<br />
physical activity and sedentary behaviour over the life span<br />
(www.dedipac.eu). Dr O’Donoghue has 20 peer reviewed<br />
scientific publications, has presented at numerous national<br />
and international conferences and is a scientific reviewer<br />
for three international journals.<br />
DR JULIE BRODERICK, MISCP,<br />
PhD, MSc, H. Dip. (Statistics)<br />
Dr Julie Broderick (Ph.D.) is a Postdoctoral<br />
Research Fellow at the<br />
Department of Physiotherapy in Trinity<br />
College Dublin, Ireland. She was the<br />
recipient of a Health Research Board<br />
(Ireland) Clinical Fellowship in 2008. She also holds an<br />
honours degree (BSc) in Physiotherapy, a Masters in<br />
Exercise Physiology (MSc) and a Post-graduate Diploma in<br />
Statistics (H. Dip.) from Trinity College Dublin. She worked<br />
clinically for a number of years as a physiotherapist, and<br />
has held positions in clinical education and academia. She<br />
has a special interest in the application of research findings<br />
to individualise exercise prescription and optimise<br />
physiotherapy management during cancer treatment and<br />
into survivorship. Her main research has focused on the<br />
effect of physical activity across diverse cancer populations<br />
from the point of diagnosis into survivorship. Other work<br />
has examined early post-operative outcomes in breast<br />
cancer patients with the implementation of a standardized<br />
physiotherapy pathway. She is also interested in the role<br />
of physical activity in other disease populations especially<br />
in the cardio-respiratory area and in mental illness. She<br />
has lectured and presented her research widely and a<br />
number of publications have emanated from her work.<br />
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SATURDAY 8 TH NOVEMBER<br />
9.00 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Keynote Address: Prof Alison McGregor, Imperial College London<br />
Rehabilitation following spinal surgery<br />
Session Chair: Dr Fiona Wilson<br />
Rehabilitation following spinal surgery<br />
Currently the use of rehabilitation following musculoskeletal surgery is rare with the majority of surgeons not<br />
advocating post-operative rehabilitation for spinal surgery patients. A number of different studies have<br />
explored the instigation of post-operative rehabilitation <strong>programme</strong>s in this patient population with a recent<br />
one indicating varied outcomes between decompression and discectomy surgery particularly in relation to<br />
educative material and rehabilitation. Prof McGregor will present the findings of this trial, along with their<br />
substantiation in a recent Cochrane report. Finally new concepts to enhance the delivery and compliance<br />
with rehabilitation for this patient population will be discussed.<br />
PROF ALISON MCGREGOR<br />
(Imperial College London)<br />
Alison McGregor is a Professor of<br />
Musculoskeletal Biodynamics in the<br />
Department of Surgery and Cancer at<br />
Imperial College London, where she<br />
manages the Human Performance<br />
Group. She trained as a physiotherapist at King’s College<br />
Hospital qualifying in 1989 and then went on to study<br />
Biomedical Engineering at Surrey University which led to a<br />
PhD project in spinal mechanics and low back pain at the<br />
Royal Postgraduate Medical School.<br />
Her research focuses on the musculoskeletal system with<br />
respect to mechanisms of injury, effects of injury on function<br />
and injury management. To date her work has largely<br />
focused on the lumbar spine by considering its function to be<br />
a composite of interacting systems including a:<br />
• passive or skeletal system which permits segmental<br />
joint motion;<br />
• muscular system which provides the muscles to<br />
create motion these body segments;<br />
• control system (the central nervous system) which<br />
co-ordinates the muscles and body segments to<br />
produce function with a variety of projects in these<br />
areas.<br />
She has also investigated aspects of management and<br />
surgical care including:<br />
• surveys of practice,<br />
• clinical cohort studies,<br />
• development of evidenced-based information<br />
• a large randomised controlled multi-centre clinical<br />
trial investigating optimal post-operative<br />
management<br />
She has also led with Professor Anthony Bull a <strong>programme</strong><br />
of research into rowing performance, with a focus on<br />
rowing kinematics and mechanisms of injury. This work has<br />
been in association with the GB Rowing team and<br />
contributed to the Team’s success at the London 2012<br />
Olympic Games. She also represented College as a Torch<br />
Runner for the London 2012 Games.<br />
Alison is one of the investigators in the Medical<br />
Engineering Solutions in Osteoarthritis Centre of<br />
Excellence Funded by the Welcome Trust and the EPSRC<br />
led by Professor Ross Ethier where she leads an initiative<br />
into the use of technology to further rehabilitation of this<br />
common disease process.<br />
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10.30 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
ISCP AGM/EGM<br />
Suite 682<br />
Student Session:<br />
Mind the Gap: Enhancing your CV (Lara Bourton Cassidy)<br />
Go for it - Just say yes! A graduate’s experience of grasping work<br />
opportunities at home. (Niamh McGowan)<br />
Working In Canada. Experiences and Q&A (Mary Walsh)<br />
Session Chair: Conor Walsh<br />
Mind the Gap: Enhancing your CV<br />
This short presentation aims to equip you with the tools you will need to build a comprehensive, relevant,<br />
personalised and effective curriculum vitae. Lara Bourton Cassidy will advise you of common pitfalls which<br />
can alienate your future employer, but will also point out how you can strengthen your CV to encourage the<br />
reader to consider you a serious candidate for interview.<br />
Have your questions ready as the short “do’s and don’ts” presentation allows time for you to pose questions<br />
to a Physiotherapy Manager who has a passion for this subject.<br />
Go for it – Just say yes! A graduate’s experience<br />
of grasping work opportunities at home.<br />
This session will discuss Niamh’s recent experiences as a graduate seeking and finding employment. She will<br />
discuss the various opportunities which she grasped and how one opportunity led to another. The talk will<br />
highlight information on a range of possibilities which may be available to new physiotherapy graduates<br />
including higher education, the occupational assessment for band 5s in Northern Ireland, recruitment<br />
agencies, sports physiotherapy and private practice.<br />
Working In Canada. Experiences and Q&A<br />
This session will provide an overview of the process to become registered as a physiotherapist in Canada,<br />
specifically in the province of British Columbia. It will provide an insight into the lifestyle and employment<br />
opportunities available in the city and greater area of Vancouver, as well as highlighting the potential<br />
differences in clinical practice that graduates from Irish Universities may experience. It is also a good<br />
opportunity to ask questions about the process.<br />
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MS LARA BOURTON-CASSIDY,<br />
MISCP<br />
Lara Bourton Cassidy graduated as a<br />
Physiotherapist from the Oswestry and<br />
North Staffordshire School of<br />
Physiotherapy in 1991. She worked in<br />
the UK for five years before returning to<br />
Ireland and she has been a member and actively involved<br />
in the ISCP at branch, CIG and Employment Group level<br />
for 20 years now. She has been Physiotherapy Manager<br />
in Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan for the last 10 years, with<br />
a clinical background in Orthopaedics, Private Practice,<br />
Respiratory and Paediatrics...it took her a while to find her<br />
management niche!<br />
Lara is the current Chairperson of the Chartered<br />
Physiotherapists in Management. She has extensive<br />
experience in interviewing at all levels within Physiotherapy<br />
and other professions. She has a passion for Curriculum<br />
Vitae, receiving them, reading them, designing and<br />
redesigning them. Lara is Competency Based Interview<br />
trained and has completed the Office for Health<br />
Management Leadership Development Course.<br />
MS NIAMH MCGOWAN, MCSP<br />
Niamh McGowan is a physiotherapy<br />
graduate from The University of Ulster,<br />
Jordanstown class of 2012. She started<br />
her career working in private practice<br />
in August 2012, initially in Lurgan<br />
Physiotherapy Clinic and then also in<br />
Elmwood Physiotherapy Clinic, Belfast from March 2013.<br />
She has completed a Merrithew Pilates course in<br />
September 2012 and was certified to teach from early<br />
2013. Since completing this she has been running Pilates<br />
classes independently. Niamh was part of the Orchard<br />
GAA academy strength and conditioning team during<br />
summer 2013 and worked as Glen G.A.C team<br />
Physiotherapist from summer 2012 through to winter<br />
2013. She is currently working as a rotational band 5<br />
Physiotherapist in Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry<br />
MS MARY WALSH, MISCP<br />
Mary Walsh is a PhD student in the<br />
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland,<br />
currently investigating fall events after<br />
stroke. She graduated as<br />
physiotherapist from University College<br />
Dublin in 2009 and travelled to work in<br />
Vancouver, Canada for two years. Here<br />
she gained experience in general medical physiotherapy,<br />
palliative care, orthopaedics, neurology and intensive care<br />
and gained a special interest in stroke physiotherapy. On<br />
her return to Ireland in 2012 she completed a PG<br />
Certificate in Older Person Rehabilitation in University<br />
College Cork and worked with the brain injury<br />
organisation Headway, before beginning her research role<br />
in RCSI.<br />
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11.30hrs Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Lecture Session: Aoibhín McGreal and<br />
Teresa Costello<br />
Diastasis Rectus Abdominis in<br />
Women’s Health and MSK -<br />
Do’s and Dont’s<br />
Session Chair: Joy Varghese<br />
Suite 684<br />
Research Presentations:<br />
The evolving role of<br />
Physiotherapy Practice and<br />
Education<br />
Session Chair: Sinead McMahon<br />
Suite 682<br />
Lecture Session:<br />
Assessment and prescription<br />
of exercise in: Dizziness<br />
(Dr Dara Meldrum)<br />
Physical disability<br />
(Dr Deirdre Murray)<br />
Stroke (Dr Olive Lennon)<br />
Session Chair: Dr Frances Horgan<br />
Diastasis Rectus Abdominis in Women’s Health and<br />
MSK – Do’s and Dont’s<br />
The muscles and fascial structures of the anterior abdominal wall play significant roles in the maintenance<br />
of both lumbopelvic stability and continence. A diastasis of the rectus abdominis muscles (DRA) has the<br />
potential to cause impairment to these systems. This presentation will give an overview of DRA and discuss<br />
its relevance to the musculoskeletal and/ or women’s health patient. Current concepts, including online<br />
<strong>programme</strong>s, and research surrounding DRA will be explored and assessment and treatment options for the<br />
pregnant and non-pregnant patient will be discussed with reference to case studies.<br />
Assessment & prescription of exercise in:<br />
Dizziness, Physical Disability & Stroke<br />
The field of exercise prescription has expanded rapidly in the recent past and there is now substantial evidence<br />
available to ensure that the therapeutic exercise <strong>programme</strong>s we prescribe are safe, client centred and<br />
optimal. The aim of this session is to examine the contemporary literature and discuss best practice in<br />
prescription of exercise specifically in neurological populations. Exercise prescription in those with<br />
neurologically based physical disability will be discussed broadly with respect to healthy lifestyles and then<br />
with particular focus on exercise in patients with dizziness and post-stroke. The session on dizziness will<br />
examine specific exercises and their evidence base for those with dizziness. The session on neurorehabilitation<br />
for people with physical disabilities will focus on the Physiotherapist’s role in prescribing and<br />
facilitating exercise for health and fitness. The presentation on stroke will consider the national and<br />
international guidelines in the area, special precautions in a high risk population and the role of exercise in<br />
secondary prevention.<br />
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MS AOIBHÍN MCGREAL BSc<br />
(Hons) Physio PGCert<br />
Continence, MISCP<br />
Clinical Specialist in Women’s<br />
Health and Continence<br />
Aoibhín graduated from UCD in 2008<br />
and since then has worked primarily in the areas of<br />
musculoskeletal and women’s health physiotherapy. She<br />
completed masters level training in Continence for<br />
Physiotherapists in the University of Bradford in 2011.<br />
Aoibhin sits on the CPWHC Committee and the Board of the<br />
ISCP for which she is currently Director of Communications.<br />
She works as a Women’s Health and Pelvic Floor Specialist<br />
in both The Beacon Hospital, Dublin and in her private clinic<br />
in Newbridge, Co. Kildare and is a regular contributor on<br />
KFM radio, a regional radio station.<br />
DR DEIRDRE MURRAY, PhD, MISCP<br />
Dr Deirdre Murray graduated from University College<br />
Dublin in 2001 and has been working as a physiotherapist<br />
in neurology, with a clinical and research remit in<br />
Beaumont Hospital since 2004. She graduated with a PhD<br />
in Physiotherapy from the Royal College of Surgeons in<br />
Ireland in 2014. Her research focused on the progression<br />
of disability in the Late Onset Sequelae of Polio and a<br />
randomised controlled trial of aerobic exercise for this<br />
patient group. Clinical and research areas of interest<br />
include management of Motor Neuron Disease, other<br />
neuromuscular diseases and vestibular rehabilitation.<br />
MS TERESA COSTELLO BSc,<br />
PGCert Continence, Dip<br />
Acupuncture, MISCP, MAFPA<br />
Chartered Physiotherapist,<br />
Clinical Specialist in Women’s<br />
Health and Continence<br />
Teresa graduated from RCSI in 2005 and has worked<br />
primarily in women’s health and musculoskeletal<br />
physiotherapy since then, initially at the MRH Mullingar<br />
before moving to Primary Care. She also works part time<br />
in private practice, and was lead physiotherapist for a<br />
number of sports teams including Longford GAA and<br />
Longford Town FC from 2005 – 2009. A registered<br />
acupuncturist and Pilates instructor, she also holds a<br />
PGCert in Continence for Physiotherapists from the<br />
University of Bradford and is currently studying for a<br />
certification in women’s health and nutrition coaching. She<br />
was co-author and presenter of the ‘Introduction to the<br />
Pelvic Floor’ Courses which were awarded HSCP Funding<br />
and delivered at three locations throughout Ireland in<br />
2013. She is a member of the International<br />
Urogynecological Association, Acupuncture Foundation<br />
Professionals Association and CPWHC, CPA and CPP<br />
clinical interest groups. She has been a member of the<br />
CPWHC Executive Committee since 2011 and has held<br />
the position of Honorary Secretary since January 2013.<br />
DR OLIVE LENNON, PhD<br />
Dr Olive Lennon graduated from UCD<br />
in 1991 and is currently a college<br />
lecturer in UCD. Prior to commencing<br />
this role, she gained over 20 years<br />
clinical experience in Ireland and the US<br />
broadly in the field of physiotherapy and<br />
specifically in neuro-rehabilitation. She held the post of<br />
senior physiotherapist in neurology in St James Hospital, was<br />
a founding member of the first HSE Community Stroke<br />
Rehabilitation Team in Baggot Street Hospital (1997-2012)<br />
and was awarded a Health Research Board (HRB), Health<br />
Services Research Fellowship to explore secondary<br />
prevention post stroke through healthy lifestyle interventions<br />
(2007-2011). Her postgraduate qualifications include an<br />
MSc in Health Informatics, postgraduate diplomas in<br />
Statistics and Health Services Management and certification<br />
in brief intervention lifestyle counselling<br />
DR DARA MELDRUM, PhD, MSc,<br />
MISCP<br />
Dr Dara Meldrum graduated from Trinity<br />
College Dublin with a degree in<br />
Physiotherapy. She obtained an MSc in<br />
Neuro-rehabilitation in 1996 from<br />
Brunel University. She has worked in<br />
Canada and Ireland in neuro-rehabilitation and held a<br />
physiotherapy research post from 1997-2000. She<br />
commenced lecturing in 2000 in the Royal College of<br />
Surgeons School of Physiotherapy. Her research interests<br />
include neuro-rehabilitation, vestibular rehabilitation,<br />
outcome measurement and movement and gait analysis.<br />
She was awarded a Health Research Board Research<br />
Training Fellowship in August 2010 to carry out a<br />
randomized controlled trial in the area of vestibular<br />
rehabilitation<br />
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14.00 Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Keynote Address: Gerard Greene (Coventry University and Owner Harborne Physiotherapy Clinic) & Dr Joe McVeigh<br />
(University of Ulster)<br />
Research and Physiotherapy: How Social Media Savvy are you? Time to get connected!<br />
Session Chair: Dr Emma Stokes<br />
Research and Physiotherapy: How Social Media Savvy are you?<br />
Time to get connected!<br />
This session will look at developments in research dissemination against the backdrop of an ever faster<br />
paced research environment paying particular attention to the role of social media in continuing professional<br />
development, getting the message out to physiotherapy & non-physiotherapy groups and being research<br />
active in the social media age. It will also outline the updates to the society’s own journal, Physiotherapy<br />
Practice & Research, over the past number of years and how the journal can assist members in getting<br />
published.<br />
The session will be very interactive and hands on and delegates are encouraged to bring their tablets or<br />
smartphones to fully participate in the session.<br />
DR GERARD GREENE MSc<br />
(Manip Physio), HCPC, MCSP,<br />
MMACP, PGCert HEd, MCSP<br />
Gerard is a graduate of Trinity College<br />
Dublin and Physiotherapy Lecturer at<br />
Coventry University where he lectures<br />
on the MSc Manual Therapy and BSc<br />
Programmes. He has organised and delivered post<br />
graduate CPD courses in the UK, Ireland and abroad while<br />
still maintaining a clinical caseload in his Physiotherapy<br />
Clinic in Birmingham, UK. Gerard is a member of the<br />
MACP Executive committee where he has the role of social<br />
media representative. He has established several<br />
successful Physiotherapy social media platforms on Twitter,<br />
Facebook and LinkedIn. He has developed the social<br />
media strategy for the MACP whose platforms are now<br />
recognised as profession leading. Within the speciality of<br />
women’s health he has established a very successful<br />
international women’s health forum on Facebook. He has<br />
also set up some Physiotherapy graduate platforms on<br />
Social Media which have served as a template for other UK<br />
and International universities. He has delivered numerous<br />
presentations on engaging physiotherapists with social<br />
media in the UK, Ireland and abroad. He has been invited<br />
to chair the networking session at WCPT 2015, Singapore<br />
on Social Media.<br />
DR JOE MCVEIGH PhD, DipOrthMed,<br />
BSc(Hons), MCSP, FHEA, FCHEP<br />
Dr McVeigh is a lecturer in physiotherapy at the University<br />
of Ulster. Dr McVeigh’s area of clinical and research<br />
interest is chronic musculoskeletal pain in particular<br />
fibromyalgia syndrome. He was awarded his PhD in 2007<br />
and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in<br />
2013. Dr McVeigh regularly presents his research at<br />
international conferences and has published extensively in<br />
high impact international journals. Dr McVeigh is also a<br />
regular peer reviewer for a host of international journals<br />
and grant awarding bodies. Dr McVeigh is Editor-in-Chief<br />
of Physiotherapy Practice and Research and is a member<br />
of the editorial boards of: Advances in Bioscience and<br />
Clinical Medicine; the Journal of Physical Therapy and<br />
Health Promotion; and the World Journal of<br />
Rheumatology.<br />
Dr McVeigh is also a member of the World Association of<br />
Medical Journal Editors and the International Society of<br />
Physiotherapy Journal Editors and was a member of The<br />
Office of Research Ethics Committee, Northern Ireland. Dr<br />
McVeigh is currently supervising three PhD students. In<br />
addition to his clinical research Dr McVeigh is a passionate<br />
advocate of physiotherapy publication and a recent<br />
convert to social media.<br />
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15.00 Keynote Address: Prof Susan Smith, Department of General Practice and HRB Centre for Primary Care Research,<br />
RCSI<br />
The Challenge of Multimorbidity<br />
Session Chair: Dr Rose Galvin<br />
The Challenge of Multimorbidity<br />
Many people with chronic disease have more than one chronic condition, which is referred to as<br />
multimorbidity. Research in the area to date has focused mainly on descriptive epidemiology and impact<br />
assessment. The HRB Centre for Primary Care Research has developed a multimorbidity research <strong>programme</strong>,<br />
which aims to further explore patterns of multimorbidity in primary care patients and determine the links<br />
between multimorbidity and health service utilization, particularly in relation to hospital admissions. In<br />
addition, exploratory trials are underway to identify an intervention to improve outcomes for individuals with<br />
multimorbidity. This session will cover these issues with a focus on developing and researching interventions.<br />
PROF SUSAN SMITH,<br />
Department of General<br />
Practice and HRB Centre for<br />
Primary Care Research, RCSI<br />
Professor Susan Smith is Associate<br />
Professor in the Department of General<br />
Practice at RCSI since March 2011. She also works as a<br />
General Practitioner at Inchicore Family Doctors in Dublin<br />
8. Her main research interest relates to the primary care of<br />
patients with chronic conditions with a focus on improving<br />
outcomes for patients with multiple chronic conditions or<br />
multimorbidity. She has been the lead investigator on<br />
several HRB funded randomised controlled trials based in<br />
Irish general practice. She is a member of the Steering<br />
Committee of the HRB Centre for Primary Care Research<br />
and is an active author and editor with the Cochrane<br />
Collaboration.<br />
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16.05<br />
Hogan Mezzanine II<br />
Lecture Session: Cameron Steele<br />
Current trends in elite sports<br />
medicine - What’s applicable<br />
to Private Practice?<br />
Session Chair: Barry McEntee<br />
Suite 682<br />
Parallel Session<br />
Dr Mary Collins EdD–<br />
Enhancing performance and<br />
engagement levels in the professional<br />
sector<br />
Session Chair: Lara Bourton Cassidy<br />
Hogan Mezzanine Foyer<br />
Facilitated Poster Pitches<br />
Lifestyle and group interventions<br />
throughout the lifespan<br />
Facilitated by: Dr Olive Lennon<br />
OR<br />
Physiotherapy management<br />
of neurological conditions<br />
Facilitated by: Dr Rose Galvin<br />
Current trends in elite sports medicine -<br />
What’s applicable to Private Practice?<br />
This session will take a look at recent advances in objective measurement and rehabilitation in Elite sport (from<br />
high to low tech) that may have a role in private practice. Exploring Dynamometry - strength testing; precision<br />
goniometry; balance testing; functional power measurement - Optogait & jump mats; Isokinetic advances;<br />
Retul -cycling set up; GPS; Phone Apps and from a rehabilitation perspective Alter g treadmill; Hydro therapy;<br />
S&C cross over; Muscle Stimulation and the ideal rehab gym when space is at a premium. This session is sure<br />
to give private practitioners plenty of ideas for their practice.<br />
Enhancing performance and engagement levels in the professional sector<br />
This session will explore the evolving nature of employee engagement in light of the changing landscape of the<br />
workplace. Dr Collins will share her research on the intergenerational workforce and the challenges and opportunities<br />
presented by the fact we now have 4 different generations working together for the first time in working<br />
history. The session will also explore the role of emotional intelligence (EQi) in personal leadership and the<br />
importance of developing core competencies to promote and sustain an innovative culture in our workplaces.<br />
MR CAMERON STEELE, MCSP<br />
Cameron graduated from the University of Ulster’s BSc<br />
(Hons) physiotherapy <strong>programme</strong> in 1993. After completing<br />
several NHS rotation to Senior level 1, Cameron began his<br />
sports physiotherapy career with London Scottish rugby team<br />
in 1995. He then moved to head of Medicine at NEC<br />
Harlequins in 2000 until 2004 at which time he commenced<br />
working with the IRFU National Team as their Head<br />
Physiotherapist. Cameron stayed with the IRFU until 2012<br />
when he commenced working with West Ham United as a<br />
Consultant Physiotherapist. He has also been a Sports<br />
Institute of Northern Ireland Affiliate Physiotherapist since<br />
2013.<br />
Cameron graduated from the University Wales Institute<br />
Cardiff in 2006 with an MSc in Sports & Exercise Medicine<br />
and has gone on as an associate lecturer to teach on TCD,<br />
UCD and University of Ulster’s Masters Programmes.<br />
Cameron is currently concentrating on building up his own<br />
private clinic ‘steelephysio’ in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.<br />
DR MARY COLLINS, EdD<br />
Mary has been working in the Organisation<br />
Development/Talent Management<br />
field for over 14 years. Her current role<br />
as Senior Executive Development Specialist<br />
with RCSI Institute of Leadership<br />
(IOL) involves working with senior leaders<br />
in the healthcare sector to develop their management<br />
and leadership capabilities through a range of executive development<br />
approaches e.g. executive coaching, 360 feedback,<br />
master classes etc. Mary is also involved in academic<br />
work with the IOL including lecturing on a range of Masters<br />
<strong>programme</strong>s. Prior to joining RCSI, Mary was Head of Talent<br />
and Learning for Deloitte Ireland for 7 years and held a<br />
range of different OD roles in the Telecoms sector.<br />
Mary is an Accredited Professional Executive Coach with the<br />
Association of Coaching (AC) and is qualified in the use of<br />
a range of psychometric and personality assessment instruments.<br />
She is also a Licensed Business NLP Practitioner and<br />
holds an Advanced Diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapy.<br />
Mary is a graduate member of the Psychological Society of<br />
Ireland (PSI).<br />
Mary is one of the authors of a book published in April 2014<br />
with the Institute of Chartered Accountants titled ‘Managing<br />
Smart People and Other Professionals.’<br />
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Research Presentation Session -<br />
Innovative Solutions in Physiotherapy Practice<br />
Session Chair: Ms Grace O’Malley<br />
Friday 7 th November<br />
(16.10hrs - 17.15hrs)<br />
16.10-16.20<br />
Title: A Study to Explore the Feasibility and Acceptability of<br />
using Smartphone Technology for Health Care Purposes in<br />
People with Multiple Sclerosis<br />
Author: Nicola Griffin, Maria Kehoe, Derek Griffin<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland<br />
16.20-16.30<br />
Title: Effectiveness of conventional versus virtual reality-based<br />
vestibular rehabilitation in the treatment of dizziness, gait and<br />
balance impairment in unilateral peripheral vestibular<br />
hypofunction.<br />
Author: Dara Meldrum 1 , Susan Herdman 2 , Roisin Vance 3 ,<br />
Deirdre Murray 3 , Doug Duffy 4 , Kareena Malone 3 , Aine<br />
Glennon 1 , Rory McConn Walsh 3<br />
1<br />
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Emory<br />
University, Atlanta, USA, 3 Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland,<br />
4<br />
Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
16.30-16.40<br />
Title: The effect of a novel footwear telemetry antenna system<br />
(FTA) on the spatiotemporal characteristics of gait in an elderly<br />
population at a low risk of falls.<br />
Author: Colm Brannigan 1 , Domenico Gaetano 2 , Pádraig<br />
McEvoy 2 , Max Ammann 2 , Dara Meldrum 1, Louise Keating 1 ,<br />
Frances Horgan 1<br />
1<br />
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Dublin<br />
Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland<br />
16.40-16.50<br />
Title: Tots & Tums: A New Community Physiotherapy Initiative<br />
for New Babies and New Mums<br />
Author: Ríona Ní Mhuireartaigh, Caitríona Morton<br />
Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland<br />
16.50-17.00<br />
Title: Tackling Childhood Obesity: A Community-Based Pilot<br />
Weight Management Programme<br />
Author: Caitríona Morton<br />
Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland<br />
17.00-17.10<br />
Title: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain:<br />
A pilot study examining the effect of a 9 week group-based<br />
intervention on individuals suffering from chronic pain in<br />
Ireland.<br />
Author: Rachel Neary 1 , Maire Brid Casey 2 , Conor Hearty 2 ,<br />
Catherine Doody 11 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland,<br />
2<br />
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
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Research Presentation Session - The evolving role<br />
of Physiotherapy Practice and Education<br />
Session Chair: Sinead McMahon<br />
Saturday 8 th November<br />
(11.30hrs - 12.40hrs)<br />
11.35-11.45<br />
Title: The relationship between health literacy and chronic<br />
diseases: A systematic review.<br />
Author: Laura Mackey, Brona Fullen<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
11.45-11.55<br />
Title: Effects of Lifestyle Intervention on Free-Living Physical<br />
Activity in Prediabetics<br />
Author: Aidan Earley 1 , Caitriona Cunningham 1 ,<br />
GrainneO’Donoghue 2<br />
1<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Dublin City<br />
University, Dublin, Ireland<br />
11.55-12.05<br />
Title: Physiotherapist perceptions of identifying and treating<br />
cognitive, psychological and social barriers to recovery in low<br />
back pain: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis.<br />
Author: Aoife Synnott 1 , Mary O’ Keeffe 1 , Samanatha Bunzli 2 ,<br />
Peter O’Sullivan 2 , Wim Dankaerts 3 , Kieran O’<br />
Sullivan 11 University Of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, 2 Curtin<br />
University of Technology, Curin, Australia, 3 Ghent University,<br />
Leuven, Belgium<br />
12.05-12.15<br />
Title: A feasibility study investigating a physiotherapy<br />
motivational interviewing <strong>programme</strong> in schizophrenia and<br />
bipolar disorder<br />
Author: Alice Waugh 1 , Julie Broderick 2 , Sophie Lang 2 , Niall<br />
Crumlish 2 , Eric Kelleher 2 , Niamh Murphy 2<br />
1<br />
St. James’ Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Trinity College Dublin,<br />
Dublin, Ireland<br />
12.15-12.25<br />
Title: Assessment of evidence-based practice during<br />
physiotherapy clinical placement<br />
Author: Martine D’Arcy 1 , Nessa Waters 2<br />
1<br />
St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland, 2 University<br />
College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland<br />
12.25-12.35<br />
Title: ‘Exercise Wikis’ - Innovation in Physiotherapy Author:<br />
Caitriona Cunningham 1 , David Jennings 3 , Grainne O<br />
Donoghue 2<br />
1<br />
School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population<br />
Science, UCD, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Dublin City University, Dublin,<br />
Ireland, 3 Centre for Teaching and Learning, UCD, Dublin,<br />
Ireland<br />
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Facilitated Poster Pitch: Exploring the Role of the<br />
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist<br />
Friday 7 th November 2014 11.00hrs<br />
Facilitated by– Colm Brannigan<br />
001<br />
Title: The Prevalence of Low Physical Activity Levels and<br />
Increased BMI in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis<br />
Author: Rachel Burke 1 , Aisling Brennan 2<br />
1<br />
Senior Physiotherapist, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland,<br />
2<br />
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin<br />
24, Ireland<br />
002<br />
Title: Current management of rheumatoid arthritis and the<br />
promotion of physical activity: a survey of Irish Physiotherapists<br />
Author: Seán McKenna, Gráinne Kelly, Norelee Kennedy<br />
Department of Clinical Therapies, University of Limerick,<br />
Limerick, Ireland<br />
003<br />
Title: Comparison of the effectiveness of group-based exercise<br />
versus individual, one-to-one exercise on disability in a<br />
musculoskeletal pain population: A review of the literature.<br />
Author: Amy Hayes, Karen McCreesh, Kieran O’Sullivan<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland<br />
006<br />
Title: Patient and Physiotherapist Perceptions of Patienttherapist<br />
Interactions in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy: A<br />
Systematic Review.<br />
Author: Paul Cullinane, Mary O’keeffe, Kieran O’Sullivan<br />
Department of Clinical Therapies, University of Limerick.,<br />
Limerick, Munster., Ireland<br />
007<br />
Title: The impact of Oral versus Written Education on Self<br />
Efficacy of patients presenting with Acute Whiplash Associated<br />
Disorder (WAD) to an Emergency Department (ED).<br />
Author: Bridie Kennelly 1 , Ciaran Browne 2 , Louise Keating 1<br />
1<br />
RCSI, Dublin 2, Ireland, 2 Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown,<br />
Dublin 15, Ireland<br />
008<br />
Title: Rehabilitative Ultrasound Imaging of Scapular Muscle<br />
Size and Contraction in Swimmers and Controls: A<br />
Comparison Study<br />
Author: Xela Steenberge, Cliona O’Sullivan<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
009<br />
Title: Review of an advanced practice Physiotherapist’s<br />
experience in a musculoskeletal ultrasound clinic (MSKUS)<br />
within a Rheumatology setting.<br />
Author: Grainne Cussen<br />
HSE, Waterford, Ireland<br />
010<br />
Title: Orthopaedic Surgeons’ views of Physiotherapy Extended<br />
Scope Practitioners in Ireland<br />
Author: Sinead O’Sullivan 1 , Catherine Doody 2<br />
1<br />
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2 University<br />
College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
011<br />
Title: The development of a physiotherapy management<br />
pathway for patients with scleroderma.<br />
Author: Eimear Conlan<br />
Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
012<br />
Title: The effectiveness of education and aerobic exercise in”<br />
higher functioning” patients with fibromyalgia: an evaluation of<br />
a new service<br />
Author: Catherine Cullinane 1 , Claire Sheehy 1 , Bindu<br />
Irudayarjai 1 , Joe G. Mc Veigh 2<br />
1<br />
Rheumatology Dept, Waterford Regional Hospital, Waterford,<br />
Ireland, 2 University of Ulster, Antrim, UK<br />
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Facilitated Poster Pitch: Interventions in Cancer &<br />
Palliative Care/ Falls & Frailty in the Elderly Population<br />
Friday 7 th November 2014 11.00hrs<br />
Facilitated by– Grainne Sheill<br />
013<br />
Title: Joint Physiotherapy and Dietetic Intervention for Patients<br />
with Hormone Sensitive Breast Cancer, Post Medical Intervention.<br />
Author: Declan O’Hanlon 1 , Claire Browne 2 , Laura Healy 2<br />
1<br />
Physiotherapy Department, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland,<br />
2<br />
Department of Clinical Nutrition, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin,<br />
Ireland<br />
014<br />
Title: Rehabilitation practices in the treatment of tumours of the<br />
posterior fossa: a systematic review<br />
Author: Kareena Malone 1 ,2 , Stephen MacNally 1 , Dara<br />
Meldrum 2 , Rose Galvin 2 ,3<br />
1<br />
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Royal College of Surgeons,<br />
Dublin, Ireland, 3 HRB Centre for Primary Care Research, Dublin,<br />
Ireland<br />
015<br />
Title: “Just one of the little drawbacks”? The impact of residual<br />
pelvic floor dysfunction on women successfully treated for pelvic<br />
cancer - a preliminary report<br />
Author: Patricia Malone 1 , Dervilla Danaher 1 , Tara Cusack 2<br />
1<br />
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Mater<br />
Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 3 School of<br />
Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science, University<br />
College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
016<br />
Title: Exploring the relationship between respiratory muscle<br />
strength and the Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating<br />
Scale in Motor Neuron Disease patients over a 1 year period.<br />
Author: Laura Harrington 1 , Anna Campion 2 , Deirdre Murray 2<br />
,3<br />
, Orla Hardiman 4 , Olive Lennon 1<br />
1<br />
School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Sciences,<br />
Health Sciences Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4,Ireland, Dublin 4,<br />
Ireland, Ireland, 2 Physiotherapy Department, Beaumont Hospital,<br />
Dublin 9, Ireland, Ireland, 3 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland,<br />
123 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland, Ireland, 4 Department<br />
of Neurology,Trinity College Dublin, School of Medicine, Room<br />
5.41, 5th floor, Biomedical Science Building,Trinity College,<br />
Dublin 2, Ireland, Ireland<br />
017<br />
Title: The development of an interdisciplinary specialist palliative<br />
day care <strong>programme</strong> for patients with a non-cancer diagnosis.<br />
Author: Lisa McGirr, Fiona Cahill, Aishling Kearney, Liz<br />
Thomson, Margaret Winters, Linda Gormley, Kevin Connaire<br />
St Francis Hospice, Dublin, Ireland<br />
018<br />
Title: Evaluation of a therapeutic exercise <strong>programme</strong> for<br />
advanced heart failure patients in a specialist palliative care<br />
setting.<br />
Author: Fiona Cahill, Lisa McGirr, David Hegarty, Emer<br />
McGowan<br />
St Francis Hospice, Dublin, Ireland<br />
019<br />
Title: Prevalence and burden of Osteoarthritis amongst older<br />
people in Ireland: findings from The Irish LongituDinal Study on<br />
Ageing study (TILDA).<br />
Author: Helen French 1 , Rose Galvin 1 , Frances Horgan 1 , Rose<br />
Ann Kenny 2<br />
1<br />
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Trinity<br />
College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
020<br />
Title: The Concurrent Validity Of The 7-item BBS 3P With Other<br />
Clinical Measures Of Balance In The Community-dwelling Elderly<br />
Author: Sinead Considine, Helen French<br />
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland<br />
021<br />
Title: Predicting mobility one week after hip fracture surgery: a<br />
prospective observational cohort study<br />
Author: ‘Michelle Fitzgerald 1 , Catherine Blake 2 , David Askin 3 ,<br />
Erin Griffin 1 , Marie Kelly 1 , Rosemary O Brien 1 , Tara Coughlan 3 ,<br />
John Quinlan 3 , Caitriona Cunningham 2<br />
1<br />
Tallaght Hospital, Physiotherapy Department, Dublin, Ireland,<br />
2<br />
University College Dublin, School of Public Health,<br />
Physiotherapy and Population Science, Dublin, Ireland, 3 Tallaght<br />
Hospital , Bone and Joint Unit, Dublin, Ireland<br />
022<br />
Title: Does the Better Bones Programme improve Functional<br />
Physical Ability, Osteoporosis Knowledge and Exercise Self-<br />
Efficacy? - A Pilot Study.<br />
Author: Claire Gleeson, Leah Brennan, Caitriona<br />
Cunningham, Ulrik McCarthy Persson, Catherine Blake<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland<br />
023<br />
Title: Frailty and its Association with Rehabilitation Outcomes: A<br />
prospective cohort study of a post-acute frail older population<br />
Author: Mary Nolan 1 , Dermot Power 2 , Jill Long 1 , Frances<br />
Horgan 3<br />
1<br />
Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin, Ireland,<br />
2<br />
Mater Misericordiae and Cappagh National Orthopaedic<br />
Hospitals, Dublin, Ireland, 3 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland,<br />
Dublin, Ireland<br />
024<br />
Title: The Relationship between Frailty and the Timed Up and<br />
Go in a post-acute rehabilitation unit.<br />
Author: Kate O’Mahony, Mary Nolan, Jill Long<br />
Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
025<br />
Title: Investigation of equal responsiveness of two frailty<br />
outcome measures within a day hospital setting, and usability of<br />
both measures.<br />
Author: Áine Curneen, Bronagh Conroy, Declan O’Hanlon<br />
St James Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
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Facilitated Poster Pitch: Lifestyle and group<br />
interventions throughout the lifespan<br />
Saturday 8 th November 16.05hrs<br />
Facilitated by – Dr Olive Lennon<br />
026<br />
Title: Assessment and Management of Risk Factors for the<br />
Prevention of Lifestyle-related Disease: A Cross Sectional Survey<br />
of current activities, barriers and perceived training needs of<br />
Primary Care Physiotherapists in the Republic of Ireland<br />
Author: Grainne O Donoghue 1 , Caitriona Cunningham 2 ,<br />
Fiona Murphy 2 , Catherine Woods 1 , Jens Aagaard-Hansen 3<br />
1<br />
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, 2 University College<br />
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 3 Steno Diabetes Centre, Copenhagen,<br />
Denmark<br />
027<br />
Title: An Evaluation of a Therapeutic Horse-Riding Programme<br />
for Children with Physical Disability<br />
Author: Nessa Hickey, Aoife Quinn<br />
Central Remedial Clinic, Dublin, Ireland<br />
028<br />
Title: A literature review and a review of the current practice of<br />
interdialytic exercise <strong>programme</strong>s during maintenance<br />
haemodialyisis in Ireland.<br />
Author: Petra Grehan<br />
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
029<br />
Title: Effectiveness of Group Exercise Classes in the<br />
Rehabilitation of Patients Post Total Hip and Total Knee<br />
Replacements<br />
Author: Una O’ Donovan<br />
Bon Secours Hospital, Cork, Ireland<br />
030<br />
Title: A Pilot Pragmatic Study of Group Rehabilitation versus<br />
Outpatient Physiotherapy for Individuals with Chronic Knee Pain<br />
in Ireland<br />
Author: Sarah Mullins, Tara Cusack<br />
UCD School of Physiotherapy and Performance Science,<br />
Dublin, Ireland<br />
031<br />
Title: Do peoples’ beliefs regarding chronic low back pain<br />
change following Classification Based-Cognitive Functional<br />
Therapy?<br />
Author: John Hurley, Kieran O’Sullivan<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland<br />
032<br />
Title: Reviewing the Impact of a Multi-Disciplinary Group<br />
Education Programme for Patients with Fibromyalgia<br />
Author: Petrina Donohue, Katie McCausland<br />
OLH, Navan, Co.Meath, Ireland<br />
Purpose: A MDT group education <strong>programme</strong> is<br />
033<br />
Title: Physical Activity and Exercise for the Management of<br />
Major Depressive Disorder: A Survey of Irish General<br />
Practitioners and Physiotherapists<br />
Author: Ann Taylor, Elaine O’Brien<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland<br />
034<br />
Title: “It Makes Me Feel Like A Normal Person” A Thematic<br />
Analysis Of Factors Influencing Physical Activity Adherence In<br />
Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder.<br />
Author: Evelyn Kimmage 1 , Blaithin Lally 1 , Jose Fernandez 1 ,<br />
Alice Waugh 2 , Niamh Murphy 2 , Niall Crumlish 2 ,1 , Juliette<br />
Hussey 1 , Julie Broderick 1<br />
1<br />
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2 St James’s Hospital, Dublin,<br />
Ireland<br />
035<br />
Title: The effect of a balance exercise class on activity<br />
limitations in people with Parkinson’s Disease<br />
Author: Anne Belton 1 ,2 , Richard Walsh 1 , Sinead Murphy 1 ,<br />
Dominick McCabe 1 , Rose Galvin 2<br />
1<br />
Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Royal College of Surgeons<br />
in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland<br />
036<br />
Title: The Development of a functional balance re-education<br />
class in a Gerontological Rehabilitation Unit<br />
Author: Louise McCarron, Mary Nolan, Kate O’ Mahony, Jill<br />
Long<br />
Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
037<br />
Title: The Implementation of an Inter-disciplinary Lifestyle<br />
Incorporated Functional Exercise Group, on a Specialist<br />
Geriatric Ward to improve functional outcomes, reduce falls<br />
risk & improve patient compliance with therapy intervention at<br />
The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin.<br />
Author: Aoife O’Neill, Laura Horan, Deirdre O’Herlihy The<br />
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles Street, Dublin<br />
7, Ireland<br />
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Facilitated Poster Pitch: Physiotherapy management<br />
of neurological conditions<br />
Saturday 8 th November 16.05hrs<br />
Facilitated by – Dr Rose Galvin<br />
038<br />
Title: Validation of a Self-Monitoring Tool Measuring Lower<br />
Limb Function in People with Multiple Sclerosis with Minimal<br />
Gait Impairment.<br />
Author: Anne-Marie Lyng, Derek Griffin, Maria Kehoe<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland<br />
039<br />
Title: The inter-rater reliability of Mini-BESTest in ambulatory<br />
people with Multiple Sclerosis<br />
Author: Elaine Ross 1 , Susan Coote 1<br />
1<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, 2 St. James’s Hospital,<br />
Dublin, Ireland<br />
040<br />
Title: Time spent in Physiotherapy in an acute stroke unit: Is it<br />
enough?<br />
Author: Mary Weir McDonnell, Fiona Gorman, Tom Lee,<br />
Tom O’Malley<br />
Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar, Co Mayo, Ireland<br />
041<br />
Title: An Audit of the Physiotherapy Stroke Service at a Model<br />
2 Hospital in Dublin<br />
Author: Colin McGrath 1 , Sarah Peppard 1 , Ania Swietliczna 2 ,<br />
Emer O’Malley 2<br />
1<br />
Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 2 St. Columcille’s<br />
Hospital, Loughlinstown, Dublin, Ireland<br />
042<br />
Title: Physical Activity Levels in Individuals Post Stroke: An<br />
Investigative Study<br />
Author: Caroline Hill, Mary O Mahoney<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
043<br />
Title: The feasibility of aerobic training in sub-acute stroke<br />
survivors: can this population train effectively?<br />
Author: Louise Smith 1 , Sophie Lang 1 , Emer Guinan 2 , Sinead<br />
Coleman 1 , Joseph Harbison 3<br />
1<br />
Physiotherapy Department, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin,<br />
Ireland, 2 Disicpline of Physiotherapy, Trinity Centre for Health<br />
Sciences, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 3 Lead<br />
Consultant Stroke Physician and Senior Geriatrician, St. James’s<br />
Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
044<br />
Title: The Effects of a Home-based Arm Ergometry Exercise<br />
Programme on Physical Fitness, Fatigue and Activity in Polio<br />
Survivors; a Randomised Controlled<br />
Author: Deirdre Murray 1 ,2 , Frances Horgan 1 , Roisin Vance 2 ,<br />
Anna Campion 2 , Orla Hardiman 2 ,3 , Dara Meldrum 1<br />
1<br />
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland,<br />
2<br />
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 3 Trinity institute of<br />
Neurosciences, Dublin, Ireland<br />
045<br />
Title: A profile of referrals for outpatient vestibular<br />
rehabilitation at a large teaching hospital<br />
Author: Lucinda Edge<br />
St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
046<br />
Title: Development of the Beaumont Hospital Physiotherapy<br />
led Spasticity service<br />
Author: Roisin Vance 1 , Deirdre Murray 1 , Fiona Molloy 2<br />
1<br />
Physiotherapy Department, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin,<br />
Ireland, 2 Department of Neurophysiology, Beaumont Hospital,<br />
Dublin, Ireland<br />
047<br />
Title: The Role of Physiotherapy in the Management of Patients<br />
Post Seizure<br />
Author: Grainne Sheill<br />
Physiotherapy Department St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
048<br />
Title: ‘Neuro- Functional Training Programme’. An innovative<br />
service-development where suitable individuals with a<br />
neurological condition can exercise optimally and safely in a<br />
non-clinical community gym setting.<br />
Author: Elaine O’Donoghue, Trish O’ Sullivan, Teresa 0’<br />
Donovan, Jamie Sheehy, Patricia Morrisroe, Liz O’ Sullivan,<br />
Anne Reen<br />
HSE Cork PCCC North/South Community Physiotherapy<br />
Department, Cork, Ireland<br />
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Supporting Posters<br />
049<br />
Title: Management of Headaches by Physiotherapists in<br />
Ireland<br />
Author: Aoife Brady, Caitriona Cunningham<br />
UCD, Dublin, Ireland<br />
050<br />
Title: Dizziness in Migraine: It’s relationship to disability using<br />
the HIT-6<br />
Author: Julie Sugrue, Esther Thomkins, Martin Ruttledge<br />
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland<br />
051<br />
Title: Examining correlates of functional disability in adults with<br />
chronic knee pain.<br />
Author: Niamh Shine 1 , Kieran O’Sullivan 1 , Norelee<br />
Kennedy 1 , Neasa De Burca 1 , Fintan Shannon 1<br />
1<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, 2 Health Service<br />
Executive West Region, West, Ireland<br />
052<br />
Title: Does the addition of soft tissue massage to exercise and<br />
manual therapy improve outcome in chronic neck pain? A<br />
Randomised Controlled Trial<br />
Author: Riona Ni Mhuireartaigh<br />
Middlesex University, London, UK<br />
053<br />
Title: The Perspectives of Chronic Spinal Pain Patients’<br />
Regarding Psychosocial Factors in Pain: A Literature Review<br />
Author: Jean Ryan, Mary O’Keeffe, Kieran O’Sullivan<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland<br />
054<br />
Title: An Audit of Low Back Pain treatment within Physiotherapy<br />
Department Naas General Hospital using the NICE guidelines<br />
2011-2013<br />
Author: Gillian Healy<br />
Naas General Hospital, Naas, Co Kildare, Ireland<br />
055<br />
Title: Patient profile, length of stay, cognitive impairment and<br />
elderly mobility scale scores in patients over 65 years admitted<br />
to a major trauma hospital post femoral fracture.<br />
Author: Peter Spencer<br />
Mater Misericordia University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
056<br />
Title: Evaluation of recovery post two versus three part<br />
proximal humerus fractures<br />
Author: Ciaran Brennan<br />
St James Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland<br />
057<br />
Title: Age-related Changes in Supraspinatus and Trapezius<br />
Muscle Contraction and Correlation with Physical Activity<br />
Author: Danielle Gignac, Megan Miller, Cliona O’Sullivan<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
058<br />
Title: An evaluation of a new management pathway for<br />
carpometacarpal osteoarthritis (CMC OA) in Tallaght Hospital-<br />
A pilot study.<br />
Author: Sarah O Driscoll<br />
Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland<br />
059<br />
Title: Foot and Ankle Injuries in Elite Adult Irish Dancers<br />
Author: Roisin Cahalan 1 , Helen Purtill 1 , Peter O’Sullivan 2 ,<br />
Kieran O’Sullivan 1<br />
1<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, 2 Curtin University of<br />
Technology, Perth, Australia<br />
061<br />
Title: An audit evaluating whether musculoskeletal outpatient<br />
physiotherapists record physical activity levels and discuss its<br />
importance in patients with Knee Osteoarthritis and Lumbar-<br />
Spine Osteoarthritis<br />
Author: Marie Kelly, Sarah O’Driscoll, Rachel Burke, Pauline<br />
Walsh, Maura McGeeney, Sheila Horan, Cliodhna Kelleher,<br />
Eimear Conlan, Aisling Brennan<br />
Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland<br />
062<br />
Title: Strength measure differences between Achilles<br />
tendinopathy and healthy controls: A review of the literature.<br />
Author: Ariane Tabuena, Sean McAuliffe, Karen McCreesh,<br />
Kieran O’Sullivan<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland<br />
063<br />
Title: Reliability of two point discrimination threshold tests over<br />
the spine in normal healthy subjects<br />
Author: Cillin Condon 1 , Joanne Finn 2<br />
1<br />
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2 St James’s Hospital, Dublin,<br />
Ireland<br />
064<br />
Title: Standing balance and health-related quality of life in<br />
children who are obese<br />
Author: Grace O’Malley 1 ,2 , Rachael Keating 3 , Mark Elmes 3 ,<br />
Hamish Fleming 3 , Sinead Killeen 1 , Sinead Murphy 1<br />
1<br />
Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, Dublin, Leinster,<br />
Ireland, 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,<br />
University College Cork, Cork, Munster, Ireland, 3 University<br />
College Dublin, School Of Physiotherapy, Public Health and<br />
Population Science, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland<br />
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065<br />
Title: An investigation into the prevalence of musculoskeletal<br />
impairments in obese children and adolescents attending a<br />
weight management service.<br />
Author: Grace O’Malley 1 ,2 , Mark Elmes 3 , Rachael Keating 3 ,<br />
Olive Lennon 3 , Sinead Killeen 1 , Sinead Murphy 1<br />
1<br />
Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, Dublin, Leinster,<br />
Ireland, 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,<br />
University College Cork, Cork, Munster, Ireland, 3 University<br />
College Dublin, School Of Physiotherapy, Public Health and<br />
Population Science, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland<br />
066<br />
Title: An audit to establish paediatric knowledge among oncall<br />
and weekend physiotherapists<br />
Author: Sinead Glynn, Fiona Buckley, Marian Johnson<br />
Physiotherapy Department, Tallaght Hospital, Tallaght, Dublin<br />
24, Ireland<br />
067<br />
Title: Parents’ Experience of Dynamic Movement Orthoses and<br />
the Service within which they are provided – A Questionnaire<br />
based Pilot Study<br />
Author: Nevin Kasantzi 1 , Alan Lyons 2 , Laura Cronin 2 , Louise<br />
Larkin 1 , Grainne Kelly 1<br />
1<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, 2 Enable Ireland, Cork,<br />
Ireland<br />
068<br />
Title: The Effect of a Community-Based Group Motor Skills<br />
Programme on the Movement Ability and Balance in Children<br />
with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)<br />
Author: Caitriona Morton 1 , Tara Cusack 2<br />
1<br />
Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Univeristy College<br />
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 3 Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
069<br />
Title: The Perspectives of Parents and Referrers to a Premature<br />
and Low Birth Weight Baby Monitoring Service - one year on.<br />
Author: Ann Somers 1 , Gráinne Kelly 2<br />
1<br />
HSE, North Tipperary, Ireland, 2 University of Limerick, Limerick,<br />
Ireland<br />
070<br />
Title: Will my child play football? An evaluation of sporting<br />
participation in children with Idiopathic CTEV treated with<br />
Ponseti Method<br />
Author: Marie O Mir 1 ,2 , David Morrissey 2 , Jacques Noel 2 ,<br />
Paula Kelly 2<br />
1<br />
physiotherapy Department, OLCHC, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland,<br />
2<br />
Department of Orthopaedics, OLCHC, Crumlin, Dublin,<br />
Ireland<br />
071<br />
Title: A Prospective Study of Injuries in the FAI Emerging Talent<br />
Program 2013/14<br />
Author: Lise-Ann O’ Neill 1 , Colin Dunlevy 1 , Paul Lambe 1 ,<br />
Sean Conway 1 , Niall Harrison 1 , Alan Byrne 1 ,2<br />
1<br />
Football Association of Ireland (FAI), Sports Campus,<br />
Abbottstown, Ireland, 2 Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine,<br />
RCSI, Ireland<br />
072<br />
Title: Assessment of training and match loads and incidence<br />
of injury and illness in professional rugby union players.<br />
Author: Ian Dowling, Karen McCreesh<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland<br />
073<br />
Title: Pre-season flexibility screening as a predictor of<br />
hamstring muscle injury in sporting adults: A systematic review<br />
Author: David Walsh, Victoria Park<br />
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK<br />
074<br />
Title: The effects of plyometrically induced neuromuscular<br />
fatigue on lower limb kinematics during jump landing in female<br />
collegiate athletes: Implications for anterior cruciate ligament<br />
(ACL) injury.<br />
Author: Niamh O’Reilly, Sinead Holden, George Petrakos,<br />
Eamonn Delahunt<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
075<br />
Title: An Evaluation of Functional Performance in Anterior<br />
Cruciate Ligament-Reconstructed Gaelic Football and Hurling<br />
Athletes following Return to Competition using a series of<br />
Single-Leg Hop Tests<br />
Author: Damien Murphy, Amanda Clifford<br />
Department of Clinical Therapies, University of Limerick,<br />
Limerick, Ireland<br />
076<br />
Title: The Effects of Concentric, Isometric, and Combined<br />
Concentric and Eccentric Strength Training on Flexibility: A<br />
Literature Review.<br />
Author: Elaine O’Connor, Seán McAuliffe, Kieran O’Sullivan<br />
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland<br />
077<br />
Title: Injury in Underage Irish Rugby Players<br />
Author: Grainne Sheill, Eamonn Delahunt<br />
Physiotherapy Department, University College Dublin, Ireland<br />
078<br />
Title: Review of the physiotherapy management of 3 rd and 4 th<br />
degree tears<br />
Author: Cinny Cusack, Niamh Kenny<br />
Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
079<br />
Title: Outcome of Male Continence Education in a Group<br />
Setting.<br />
Author: Ruth McCollum 1 , Karen Fitzmaurice 2 , TED<br />
McDermott 2 , John Thornhill 2 , Robert Flynn 2<br />
1<br />
Physiotherapy Department,Tallaght Hospital,, Tallaght, Dublin<br />
24, Ireland, 2 Urology Department, Tallaght Hospital, Tallaght,<br />
Dublin 24., Ireland<br />
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080<br />
Title: Physical Activity Levels among Farmers: Accelerometry<br />
versus Self Report<br />
Author: Laura O’Sullivan 1 , Aubrey Storey 2 , Catherine Blake 1 ,<br />
John McNamara 3 , Caitriona Cunningham 1<br />
1<br />
UCD, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population<br />
Science, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Waterford Institute of Technology,<br />
Waterford, Ireland, 3 Teagasc, Health and Safety Office,<br />
Kildalton College, Kilkenny, Ireland<br />
.<br />
081<br />
Title: Physical fitness and physical activity levels following<br />
haematopoietic stem cell transplant: A case controlled study<br />
Author: Deirdre Lynch 1 , Juliette Hussey 1 , Elisabeth<br />
Vandenberghe 2 , Emer Guinan 1<br />
1<br />
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2 St. James’s Hospital, Dublin,<br />
Ireland<br />
082<br />
Title: Activity Levels of People with Intellectual Disabilities - A<br />
Pilot Study<br />
Author: Eimear Walsh, Hamish Fleming<br />
UCD, Dublin, Ireland<br />
083<br />
Title: Physical Activity Levels and Self - Determined Motivation<br />
to exercise among Health Professional Students<br />
Author: Rebecca Mahony 1 , James Matthews 2 ,1 , Catherine<br />
Blake 3 , Caitriona Cunningham 4<br />
1<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 2 University College<br />
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 3 University College Dublin, Dublin,<br />
Ireland, 4 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
084<br />
Title: An Audit of the Prescription of Oxygen on Inpatients in a<br />
Dublin Academic Teaching Hospital.<br />
Author: Amy Mulkerins<br />
Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland<br />
085<br />
Title: An Audit of the Adherence to Target Heart Rates of<br />
Patients post Myocardial Infarction in Phase Three of Cardiac<br />
Rehabilitation.<br />
Author: Amy Mulkerins<br />
Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, Ireland<br />
086<br />
Title: Two year clinical review of ventilator free breathing (VFB)<br />
weaning process for patients with complete acute spinal injuries<br />
at Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Author: Anne Horgan 1 , Jacqui Byrne 1 , Edward Carton 1 ,<br />
Dearbhala Cassidy 1 , Aoife crowe 1 , Dervilla Danaher 1 ,<br />
Geraldine Jordan 1 , Keith Synnott 1 , Eimear Smith 2<br />
1<br />
Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2 NRH, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland<br />
087<br />
Title: To Establish Best Practice & High Quality Physiotherapy<br />
Intervention for the Management Heart Failure Patients on<br />
Prolonged Bed Rest on IABP in the Mater Misericordiae<br />
University Hospital (MMUH), 2014.<br />
Author: Grainne Ford, Grainne Quinn, Dervilla Danaher,<br />
Anne Horgan<br />
Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
088<br />
Title: Should I stay or should I go?A comparative study<br />
investigating the benefits of attending a Phase IV Cardiac<br />
Rehabilitation <strong>programme</strong> compared to non attendance<br />
Author: Aoife McMahon 1 , Eanna Falvey 2<br />
1<br />
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 2 Bon Secours Hosptial,<br />
Cork, Ireland<br />
089<br />
Title: Evaluation of a pilot Physiotherapist and Nurse - Led<br />
Oxygen Clinic in Naas General Hospital in 2013<br />
Author: Susan Curtis, Tariq Quadri<br />
Naas General Hospital, Co Kildare, Ireland<br />
090<br />
Title: The Physiotherapy Management of Plastic Bronchitis in<br />
the Irish Setting<br />
Author: Rachel Ruddy, Anne Marie Moloney<br />
Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
091<br />
Title: Early Mobilisation: Analysis of best & current practice for<br />
the prevention of post-operative pulmonary complications<br />
(PPCs) within the surgical physiotherapy service of the Mater<br />
Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH).<br />
Author: Daire Plunkett, John Hayden, Emma Gorman, Eva<br />
Bollard, Dervilla Danaher, Dearbhail Flanagan, Sarah-Jane<br />
Monaghan, Colm Mullen, Laura Shields, Lauren Sinclair<br />
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
092<br />
Title: Barriers to mobilising patients post thoracic surgery.<br />
Author: Grainne Sheill, Kate Devenney, Marie Spain<br />
St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
093<br />
Title: Physical functioning post oesophagectomy<br />
Author: Jenny Gannon 1 , Emer Guinan 1 , Juliette Hussey 1 , JV<br />
Reynolds 2<br />
1<br />
Discipline of Physiotherapy, School of Medicine, Trinity College<br />
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Department of Surgery, School of<br />
Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
094<br />
Title: Examining the impact of oesophageal surgery on<br />
functional performance<br />
Author: Emer Guinan 1 , Jenny Gannon 1 , Juliette Hussey 1 ,<br />
John Reynolds 2<br />
1<br />
Discipline of Physiotherapy, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin,<br />
Ireland, 2 Department of Surgery, Trinity College and St James’s<br />
Hospital Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
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095<br />
Title: Exercise & extra-corporeal life support [ECLS] -<br />
prevention of complications, early rehabilitation.<br />
Author: Emma Gorman, Edmund Carton, O Brien Serena,<br />
Dervilla Danaher<br />
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
096<br />
Title: An evaluation of neuromuscular electrical stimulation in<br />
critical care using the ICF framework: A systematic review and<br />
meta-analysis.<br />
Author: Dearbhla Burke, Diarmuid Stokes, Olive Lennon<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
097<br />
Title: Streamlining process of referral from hospital to<br />
community, MMUH & PCCC, DNC.<br />
Author: Anne Horgan 1 , Amanda Casey 1 , Donal Cassidy 2<br />
1<br />
Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2 PCCC, Dublin North<br />
Central/City, Dublin, Ireland<br />
098<br />
Title: Effectiveness, adherence & patient satisfaction with<br />
hydrotherapy treatment (Pilot Study) at Mater Misericordiae<br />
University Hospital, Dublin 2014.<br />
Author: Lauren Sinclair, Dervilla Danaher, Anne Horgan<br />
Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
099<br />
Title: Transition to paperless clinical documentation - a<br />
multidisciplinary quality initiative in the Emergency Department<br />
Author: Brid Wilson, Marie Byrne<br />
St James’ Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
100<br />
Title: To improve the efficiency, cleanliness and safety of three<br />
Physiotherapy clinical/office areas using the Lean Management<br />
model (5S).<br />
Author: Sheila Mc Carthy, Bronagh Conroy<br />
St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
101<br />
Title: Physiotherapy ‘Great Place to Work’ Initiative<br />
Author: Niamh Murphy, Marie Byrne, Declan O Hanlon,<br />
Joanne Dowds, Joanne Finn, Emma Sherlock, Sinead<br />
Coleman, Brid Wilson<br />
Physiotherapy Department, St James’s Hospital, Ireland<br />
102<br />
Title: Patient Experience and Referrer Feedback -What You<br />
Told Us and What we Did?<br />
Author: Niamh Murphy, Sarah Mitchell, Edel Carroll<br />
St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
103<br />
Title: The Effect of an Early Morning Pre-Operative Knee<br />
Arthroscopy Physiotherapy Service on Physiotherapy Outpatient<br />
Waiting List<br />
Author: Michelle Fitzgerald, Amy Mulkerins<br />
Tallaght Hospital, Physiotherapy Department, Dublin, Ireland<br />
104<br />
Title: A Review of the Acute Medicine Physiotherapy Service<br />
Provided in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital<br />
(MMUH)<br />
Author: Daire Plunkett, Jennifer Gilchrist, Dervilla Danaher<br />
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
105<br />
Title: An audit of the use of physiotherapy outcome measures<br />
in an older adult day hospital.<br />
Author: Julie Jordan, Bronagh Conroy<br />
St James Hospital, Dublin, Ireland<br />
106<br />
Title: A Multi-Disciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative for a<br />
Pre-Prosthetic Amputee Rehabilitation Pathway in a<br />
Gerontological Post-Acute Rehabilitation Unit<br />
Author: Sarah Tormey, Mary Nolan, Kate O’Mahony, Emma<br />
Nolan, Yvonne Doran<br />
Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Finglas, Dublin 11,<br />
Ireland<br />
107<br />
Title: A Questionnaire to Determine the Provision of<br />
Physiotherapy in Irish Nursing Homes<br />
Author: Laura O’ Kelly, Hamish Fleming<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
108<br />
Title: Where Patients go, Students and Practice Tutors Should<br />
Follow: A Pilot Study<br />
Author: Sheila Mc Dermott 2 ,Evelyn Flavin 3 , Aine O’Riordan 3 ,<br />
Catherine Mc Loughlin 3 , Nessa Waters 1 , Caitriona<br />
Cunningham 1 , Sinead Mc Mahon 1<br />
1<br />
School of Public Health, Physiotehrapy & Population Science,<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Physiotherapy<br />
Department, St Vincent’s Hospital, Dubllin, Ireland, 3 Primary and<br />
Community Care Dublin South East, Dublin, Ireland<br />
109<br />
Title: Integrating Community Based Exercise Classes and<br />
Acute Hospital Practice Education Placement Experience.<br />
Author: Sinead Mc Mahon 1 , Nessa Waters 1 , Evelyn Falvin 2<br />
1<br />
School of Public Health, Physiotehrapy & Population Science,<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland, 2 Physiotherapy<br />
Primary and Community Care Dublin South East, Dublin 4,<br />
Ireland<br />
110<br />
Title: A pilot study to assess the feasibility of a student led wrist<br />
fracture class<br />
Author: Eimear Conlan 1<br />
1<br />
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2 Tallaght Hospital, Dublin,<br />
Ireland<br />
111<br />
Title: Mapping Manual and People Handling Instructor<br />
Learning in a Physiotherapy Programme<br />
Author: Caitriona Cunningham 1 , Sinead Mc Mahon 1 ,<br />
Catherine Blake 1 , Nessa Waters 1 , Theresa Flynn 2<br />
1<br />
School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science,<br />
UCD, Dublin, Ireland, 2 St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin,<br />
Ireland<br />
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Title: Staff Participation in Physiotherapy Programmes within St<br />
Michael’s House<br />
Author: Kelly Russell, Louise Reilly, Emer O’Keeffe, Karen<br />
Dolan, Riana Clune<br />
St Michael’s House, Dublin, Ireland<br />
113<br />
Title: Perception of Disability among Healthcare workers in<br />
rural East Africa<br />
Author: Deirdre Whelan<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
114<br />
Title: ‘Parental Health Literacy in Rural Uganda: A qualitative<br />
exploratory study’<br />
Author: Sarah Burke, Catherine Doody, Cliona O’Sullivan<br />
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland<br />
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