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Full Schedule

  • Tuesday, October 29, 2024
  • 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM  
    Academy of Certified Brain Injury Course (ACBIS) **TWO-DAY COURSE: 29-30 OCT**
  • 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM  
    ACRM Cognitive Rehabilitation Training — NEW! SECOND EDITION **TWO-DAY COURSE: DAY 1 2654
  • Wednesday, October 30, 2024
  • 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM  
    IC14: Vestibular Rehabilitation, Testing and Concussion Management
  • 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM  
    Academy of Certified Brain Injury Course (ACBIS) **TWO-DAY COURSE: 29-30 OCT**
  • 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM  
    ACRM Cognitive Rehabilitation Training — NEW! SECOND EDITION **TWO-DAY COURSE: DAY 2 2654
  • 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM  
    IC13: Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT)®: An Introduction to Science, Theory and Practice
  • 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM  
    IC15: Facility Dogs: Canine Catalysts for Optimizing Human Health, Performance, and Engagement
  • Thursday, October 31, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM  
    ACRM Pediatric Cognitive Rehabilitation Training — **ONE-DAY COURSE**
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Contributing Factors in Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury Morbidly and the Impact these have on Rehabilitative Efforts
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Head & Neck Ultrasound Workshop: Addressing Unmet Needs in Non-Musculoskeletal PM&R Practice-Focused on Neuro- Rehabilitation
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Long Term Remote Physical Activity Monitoring in Individuals With Neurological Impairments: Challenges, Patient perspectives and Data Analytics
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Navigating the Complexities: Autonomic and Cerebrovascular Responses Post-Central Nervous System Trauma
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Post-traumatic Tinnitus: A Resounding Update
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Powerful Poetry: A novel group process that fosters self-expression, building confidence and identity
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    Updates from the Amsterdam 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport
  • Friday, November 1, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM  
    Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Pediatric and Adolescent Task Force
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Cardiovascular Health in Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Cervical Whiplash as a Symptom Generator after Concussion: What Every Clinician Should Know
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Comparison of Patient-Reported Outcomes at Follow-up with Functional Status at Inpatient Rehabilitation Discharge
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Orientation Strategies for Brain Injury Management in Inpatient Rehabilitation
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Enhancing UE Functionality with Vivistim Therapy in Patients after Stroke; Success Stories and Digital Health Future
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Exploring the use of Exoskeletons in Acute Care to Provide Early Mobility for Patients with Neurological Injuries
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    The Implications of Mindsets and Biases in Behavioral Assessments for Disorders of Consciousness
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Turning Up the Frequency: Use of In Situ Mobile Health Assessments in Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM  
    Re-energize with the Complementary Integrative Rehabilitation Medicine Networking Group
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM  
    Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Summit 9533 - This event is supported by CARF International
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    A Novel, Wearable Technology to Gain an "Inside View" of the Patient and Enhance Outcomes After Stroke
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Advanced Technologies for Neurorehabilitation: Wearables
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Applying the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System across Speech-Language Pathology
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Disability Inclusion in Rehabilitation Sciences: An Insider’s Perspective
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Facility Dogs: Canine Catalysts for Optimizing Human Health, Performance, and Engagement Symposium
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Heading in the Right Direction. Concussion Management in Soccer
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    My Thinking Isn’t Clear After My TBI: The VA Approach to Managing Cognitive Complaints
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Neuromodulation for the Nervous System - Our experience with Veterans and First Responders with Mental Health and Pain Challenges
  • 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM  
    Sheldon Berrol Memorial Chautauqua Symposium: Identity in Flux: Understanding Disability After Traumatic Brain Injury 0596
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Athlete Development & Sports Rehabilitation Oral Presentations

    Moderator: Ashlie B. White, MA – Amputee Coalition

  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Oral Presentations
    Brain Injury
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Clinical Practice Oral Presentations 1
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Oral Presentations
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Measurement Oral Presentations
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Pediatric Rehabilitation Oral Presentations
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Technology Oral Presentations
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Advanced Technologies for Neurorehabilitation: Data Science and AI
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Bridging The Gap: Optimizing Evidence To Practice For The Management Of Concussion in the Military Health System
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Efficacy of Rehabilitation Interventions for Disorders of Consciousness: Results of Recent Umbrella Review
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Health Services Research: Addressing Disparities in Persons with Disability
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Psychological Disorders Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries in the Pediatric Population: New Findings and Implications for Clinical Practice
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Sleep Management in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    The Diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury Using Biomarkers and Emerging Technologies
  • 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM  
    Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Neurobehavioral Task Force
  • Saturday, November 2, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM  
    Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Cognitive Rehabilitation Task Force
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM  
    Sponsored Satellite Symposium - Reaching Milestones in Managing Spasticity: What the Rehabilitation Specialist Needs to Know
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Cognitive Difficulties in Veterans with TBI and the Military-to-Civilian Transition
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Considerations for Integrating Noninvasive Brain Stimulation into Clinical Neurorehabilitation
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Data Collection and Management Strategies for Research Involving Inpatients Undergoing Acute Rehabilitation
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Dementia Prevention 2024 Session I
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Effects of Yoga in Individuals with Acquired Brain Injury: A Systematic Review
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Explorers, Improvisers, and Rebels: How Rehabilitation Practitioners use Tinkering to Respond to Uncertainty and Ambiguity
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Head vs Heart: Applying Intensity-Driven Neuroplasticity Principles in Patients with Anoxic Brain Injury and High Cardiac Risk Factors
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Mindfulness and Nature-Based Therapy: Foundations, Applications and Intersections
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    The State of the Art Science of Music: Clinical Applications
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Re-energize: Yin and Yang Meditation: Finding your inner self-compassion
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Advanced Technologies for Neurorehabilitation Training Series - Lower Extremity Rehabilitation ROBOTICS: End -effector Systems & Exoskeletons
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Advancing Equity in TBI Rehabilitation Research: A Call to Action
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Disorders of Consciousness Family Education Resource: Promoting Dissemination and Accessibility to Family and Caregivers.
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Grappling with Uncertainty: Care Partners and Rehabilitation Practitioners Hope for the Recovery of Persons in Disorders of Consciousness
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Home & Community Neurorehabilitation Treatment Models and National Outcomes
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    How to Leverage Engagement to Enhance Research Rigor and Foster Translational Success in Healthcare Access: Adapting, Reciprocating, and Measuring Engagement with Vulnerable Populations
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Innovative Approaches to Telerehabilitation for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Pediatric Award Lectureship: Optimizing Recovery: The Critical Role of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine and Therapies in Acute Care Settings
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Treating the Cough-Swallow Continuum: Transdisciplinary Paradigms in Dysphagia and Dystussia Management
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    What Brain Injury Survivors Want Medical Rehabilitation Professionals to Know
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Wild Measurement: Strategies to Capture Meaningful Performance Improvements from Rehabilitation
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM  
    SPONSORED SESSION by SYNCHRON: “The Implantable Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Bringing Autonomy to Your Patients”
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Health Services Research Oral Presentations
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Advanced Technologies for Neurorehabilitation: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Advances and Challenges in Using Evidence-based AI Driven Technology Platforms for Cognitive and Speech Therapy to Increase Patient Outcomes and Improve Clinician Productivity
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Application of the Neural Diathesis-Stress Model in Predicting and Treating Disinhibited Sexual Behavior Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Funding Implementation Science in Traumatic Brain Injury: I-HEAL, a Case Study
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Motor Neuron Disease Following Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Post-traumatic Confusional State: Update on Pathophysiology and Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Bridging the Gap Between Capacity and Performance: Behavior Management Components of Constraint-induced Therapy
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: What Did Mr. Rogers Know About Brain Injury? The Effects of Neighborhood on TBI Outcomes
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Suicide Prevention and Firearm Safety in Rehabilitation Patients
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    The Anatomy of Mindfulness: Breakdown of The Therapeutic Mechanisms of Various Standardized Mindfulness Programs and the Operationalized Languaging
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    The Lived Experience and TBI Research: Leveraging Community Voices Through Community Advisory Boards
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Utilization Of Delirium Screening By Pediatric Therapists
  • 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM  
    Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Disorders of Consciousness Task Force
  • Sunday, November 3, 2024
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    “Sub-concussive” is a Dangerous Misnomer: Refining Terminology for Head Impacts and Traumatic Brain Injuries
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Advanced Technologies for Neurorehabilitation: Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Data Science and Contemporary Neuroscience Technologies in Combating Neuropsychological Deficits in Chronic TBI
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Evaluating Photobiomodulation for Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans: A New Horizon in Treatment
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Measuring Rehabilitation Service Use after Traumatic Brain Injury: Development and Initial Validation of the Rehabilitation Utilization Measure (RUM)
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Stakeholder Perspectives on the Facilitators and Barriers to Meeting the Needs of Persons with TBI Across DOD, VA, and Community Settings
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Telehealth Adaptations of Community-Based Programs for People with Brain Injury
  • 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Traumatic Brain Injury Caregivers: Understanding the Resilience, Readiness, and Resources Needed to Improve Health, Functioning and Needs Post-Injury.
  • 8:15 AM – 3:00 PM  
    SYMPOSIUM SERIES: Essentials of Vision Rehabilitation
    StrokeClinical PracticeBrain Injury
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    An Interdisciplinary Approach To Improving Tone Management In Pediatric Patients With Disorders Or Consciousness
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Improving Access to Care for Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury and Complex Comorbidities
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Pediatric Rehabilitation Networking Group Hot Topics
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Smart-Home Technologies for Patient and Caregiver Use at Home after Discharge from Inpatient Rehabilitation
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Specification and Consumer Validation of the Chronic Disease Model for Brain Injury
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    The Development of a Patient Centered Research Agenda for Sport Related Concussion Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    The Unique Function and Value of a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor for People With Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM  
    Update on Solutions for Increasing Use of Integrative Medicine in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Attention Restoration in Mild TBI +/- PTSD: Personalized Training and Functionally Targeted Neuromodulation
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Connecting Dots: Exploring the Link Between Intimate Partner Violence and Brain Injury
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Healthcare Cost and Utilization for TBI Among Service Members and Veterans
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Improvement and Implementation Science Methods: Similarities, Differences, and Applied Examples in Brain Injury Care
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Mark Ylvisaker Memorial Lecture Symposium: Seeds of Hope: Nurturing Recovery After Pediatric TBI
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Maximizing Neurological Recovery and Patient Outcomes: Integrating Exercise Physiologists in Acute Rehabilitation
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Mental Health Prevalence, Barriers, and Facilitators to Seeking Care for Service Members and Veterans
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM  
    Perspective and feasibility of application of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Patients with severe and Acute Traumatic Brain Injury