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Candy Tefertiller

PT, DPT, PhD, NCS

Candace Tefertiller, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS, is the Executive Director of Research and Evaluation at Craig Hospital and the Helen Phillips Levin Endowed Chair of Research. Dr. Tefertiller is currently the Co-Project Director for the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems and Co-Project Director for the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems at Craig. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Colorado, Denver. Dr. Tefertiller has worked in the field of neurological rehabilitation since 2000 as both a clinician and a clinician scientist providing care to individuals with SCI and TBI while also engaged in research to investigate the interventions that maximize recovery after neurologic injury and disease. Dr. Tefertiller has focused much of her career on interventions, program development, and research promoting recovery after neurologic injury. Dr. Tefertiller is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and the Neurologic Section of APTA. She is Vice-Chair of the Education Committee of ASIA.

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Spinal Cord Injury Overview

Presented by Candy Tefertiller, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS

Spinal Cord Injury Overview

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This course will provide clinicians with a basic understanding of the demographic and financial implications associated with SCI. They will also gain an understanding of the major medical complications impacting an individual with an SCI and how to assist patients/families with limiting and/or preventing some of the long term negative health complications associated with immobility. Finally, clinicians will gain an understanding of the International Standards for the Neurologic Classification of spinal cord injury and the impact location of injury and severity of injury have on predicting outcomes after SCI.

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Rehabilitation for Motor Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

Presented by Candy Tefertiller, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS

Rehabilitation for Motor Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

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Although spinal cord injury has a low incidence rate compared to other diseases impacting the health care system in the United States, it still has a profound impact on our society. It often results in immediate catastrophic consequences, including loss of upright mobility and independence. Less than 1% of individuals who sustain spinal cord injury achieve complete neurologic recovery. Those who do not achieve full recovery are left to rely on a wheelchair as their primary means of mobility and may require assistance for activities of daily living (ADLs) due to impaired upper extremity function. In this course, Dr. Tefertiller will discuss how current research supports that intensive training focused on motor learning principles may allow some individuals to recover function even into the chronic stages of recovery. Additionally, this course will discuss how clinicians also need to utilize outcome measures specific to SCI to appropriately track and monitor changes in response to rehabilitation interventions.

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Rehabilitation for Motor Complete Spinal Cord Injury

Presented by Candy Tefertiller, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS

Rehabilitation for Motor Complete Spinal Cord Injury

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Predicting outcomes after spinal cord injury (SCI) is difficult. Therefore, providing the most efficacious treatment interventions after SCI can be challenging. Interventions must be based on a framework that includes current translational research along with an understanding of the neurophysiological changes that occur after SCI. Clinicians must be able to identify appropriate functional expectations after SCI based on level of injury, severity of injury, and currently available research. Clinicians must also be able to properly educate and empower individuals with SCI and their families to live independently and maximize quality of life by minimizing the complications associated with impaired mobility. After completing this course, clinicians will improve their knowledge of spinal cord injury rehabilitation, including the many challenges and opportunities associated with providing care for this unique population.

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