Clinical Education Days

Join SPS for a free live event featuring a range of topics, from upper extremity prosthetic devices to lower-extremity orthotic solutions, fabrication techniques, socket technology, and more. Courses will be led by SPS Manager of Clinical Education Sam Brouillette, CP, CFo, and Senior Clinical Education Specialist Liz Hillen, M.Ed., CPO, LPO, with special guests from Bulldog Tools, Inc., and Xtremity.

Clinicians qualified to receive credits include: ABC Certified Clinicians and BOC Certified Clinicians

Why Register?

Up to 9.5 available credit hours (Scientific)
Complimentary breakfast and lunch
Networking with SPS Sales Account Managers and fellow O&P professionals
Opportunity to deepen your knowledge on a wide range of devices and techniques

Agenda:

7:30 - 8:00 AM: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 10:00 AM: Processes for Solving Fabrication Problems with Bulldog Tools, Inc. | 2 CEUs

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: SPS Advanced Lower Extremity Orthotic Solutions | 2.5 CEUs

12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch & SPS Microprocessor Knees: A Review | 1 CEU

1:00 – 3:00 PM: Xtremity TT Socket System Overview| 2 CEUs

3:00 – 5:00 PM: SPS Upper Extremity Prosthetics for the Average Clinician | 2 CEUs

About the Courses:

Upon successful completion credits will be submitted to ABC. BOC/Other clinicians will receive an email with complete records for self-submission.

Processes for Solving Fabrication Problems with Bulldog Tools, Inc.

In this course, we will provide an overview of the fabrication process from start to finish. From pulling check sockets to laminate jobs the easy way, you will understand how to save time and money.

SPS Advanced Lower Extremity Orthotic Solutions

This course will provide ABC Certified Orthotic Practitioners, Orthotic Assistants, and Technicians with advanced clinical orthotic solutions and unique design options for patients who present with various lower extremity clinical pathologies, muscular paresis, or paralysis. The presenter will review the unique designs and material sciences behind more dynamic AFOs and KAFOs, Stance Control solutions, innovative bars, and joints options, as well as Functional Electrical Stimulation protocols, all with a focus of improving gait biomechanics, reducing energy expenditure, and improving quality of life while advancing activities of daily living.

SPS Microprocessor Knees: A Review

MPKs: A Review is a 1-hour course utilizing a Comparison Chart of Specification and Attributes of some of today’s microprocessor knees to build an open round table discussion.

Xtremity TT Socket System Overview

The Xtremity TT Socket System is a thermoformable, transtibial, definitive socket that is easier, faster, and safer to custom fabricate than a traditional carbon fiber laminated socket. The socket is made of a proprietary, carbon-infused polymer that is heat adjustable for the life of the prosthesis. This presentation will introduce you to this novel technology and the years of research conducted by the Xtremity team.

SPS Upper Extremity Prosthetics for the Average Clinician

This 2-hour course is designed to give clinicians an understanding of the many options and solutions for fitting patients with the absence of whole or part of their upper extremity. Evaluation, testing, and training techniques of today’s highly functioning Myoelectric devices and available standard conventional devices will be covered. Utilize industry standards, new technologies, and/or Myo tester and outcome measures to optimize Myoelectric patient’s outcomes.