Overview

This 1-day workshop will cover assessing physical capacity measures such as gait speed, balance and strength, which are routinely performed clinically screening for long-term outcomes, such as frailty and falls risk assessments. These measures can also be used to assess the possibility of returning to sport capacity and re-injury risk in athletic populations. However, clinical tools for assessing the initial impairment and changes over time often possess significant limitations such as poor precision, high inaccuracy and modest reliability. This can result in poor assessments and frustrate patients and their families, who want may wish to know more about their recovery or disease progression.

This will include practical, hands on demonstrations of the different tests and some of the technology available for assessments.


Teaching Team

What You’ll Learn

TopicsObjectives
The importance of assessing physical function

To understand how physical function tests can be used to assist with patient or athlete care

Methods for assessing key aspects of physical functionTo gain basic knowledge of how common assessment methods work, and their pros and cons.
How to integrate assessments into clinical workTo learn basic database management and data transfer skills using Microsoft Excel

Who Should Attend

Physiotherapists who work in the field of practice, Occupational Therapists and Biomechanists.


Certificate and Assessment

A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who:

  • Attend at least 75% of the workshop
  • Undertake non-credit bearing assessment (during the workshop)

Schedule

Time Topics
8:30 am Registration and Introduction
9:00 am

The importance of assessing physical function
10:30 am Tea Break
11:00 am

The available methods of assessment
12:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm Important factors when choosing a test
3:00 pm Tea Break
3:30 pm

Methods to integrate assessments into your clinical work
4:45 pm Assessment, Q & A, Summary
5:30 pm End of Day



Fees

Category Full Fee After SF Funding After SF Mid-Career
Enhanced Subsidy
Singapore Citizen (Below 40) / Singapore PR $642.00 $192.60 Not Eligible
Singapore Citizen (40 & above) $642.00 $192.60 $72.60
Non-Singaporeans $642.00 Not Eligible Not Eligible

Note:
  • All figures include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.
  • You can opt for either SF Series Funding or Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy. Both cannot be combined.

»  Learn more about funding types available

Terms & Conditions:

SkillsFuture Funding

In order to be eligible for the 70% training grant awarded by SkillsFuture, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
  1.  Be a Singaporean Citizen or Singapore Permanent Resident
  2.  Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme

SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy

To be eligible for the 90% enhanced subsidy awarded, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
  1.  Be a Singaporean Citizen
  2.  Be at least 40 years old
  3.  Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme

SIT reserves the right to collect the balance of the programme fees (i.e. the potential grant amount) directly from the applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) should the above requirements not be fulfilled.

SIT reserves the right to make changes to published course information, including dates, times, venues, fees and instructors without prior notice.

Key Info

Venue SIT@Dover, 10 Dover Drive S138683
Time 08:30 AM to 05:30 PM
Date 13 Oct 2018 (Sat)

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