RRTC Consumer Advisory Panel

Our consumer specialist hosted a meeting of our RRTC consumer advisory panel (CAP) on Thursday,December 9, 2010 at MUSC. The purpose of this CAP was to discuss format revisions of the RRTC Core survey instrument. The attendees completed a sample survey and gave valuable insight and suggested format revisions for the survey. These revisions included identifying skip patterns more clearly and bolding key words in a variety of questions to make them easier to understand. We will make appropriate revisions and be able to print the survey instrument in the near future.

In addition, the participants reviewed the Health Services Received Questionnaire. They made suggestions to add questions:
• what type of insurance did the participant have at the time of injury?
• how much recreational therapy did participant receive during treatment at inpatient rehabilitation?
• did participant receive any social worker services (information about community resources) during treatment at inpatient rehabilitation?

RRTC January Grand Rounds-Save the Date

Dr Mark Bowden, PhD, PT from the MUSC Department of Health Science and Research will be presenting at our next RRTC Grand Rounds on January 25, 2011. The title will be:
Locomotor Recovery after Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: Balancing Innovation and Expectation

The objectives of the presentation will include:

1) Differentiate compensatory versus recovery-based approaches to locomotor rehabilitation
2) Describe components to successful walking rehabilitation programs
3) Understand the factors by which specific motor control deficits may be targeted in future interventions

The presentation will take place on the MUSC campus in the College of Health Professions Complex.