FORTH - Think Clearer - Improve Gait and What Is Proprioception?

Peacocks Medical Group - FORTH

International experts uniting voices from around the globe to explore the latest advancements, innovations, and insights in healthcare

Hilton Newcastle Gateshead

<h2>The speakers at the event will be...</h2> <h3>Professor Stuart Baker</h3>Stuart Baker is Professor of Movement Neuroscience at Newcastle University.His research explores fundamental principles of how brain and spinal cordcentres work together to coordinate voluntary movements. <h3>Laura Salisbury:</h3>Laura is a Research Fellow at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design(HHCD), one of six constituent research centres at the Royal College ofArt (RCA), London and Founder &amp; CEO of InnovationRCA start-upKnitRegen. Her research group at the HHCD explores the use of smarttextiles as a method to disrupt motor recovery following ischemic stroke. <h3>Pam Covens</h3>Pam is a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist and trained in Newcastle in
1981. Her experience includes spinal injuries, adult community neurology
and acute and community paediatrics. She moved to Gateshead in 1988
to develop the service for children with cerebral palsy first for SCOPE
and then for the Trust. <h3>Andrew Frame:</h3>Andrew Frame is an Orthotist working for Peacocks with 15 years ofclinical experience gained working at The National Hospital for Neurologyand Neurosurgery in London. He specialises in orthotics care forneurological patients, having lead the Complex Neuro Orthotics MDTClinic at NHNN, and now works at Walkergate Park Centre forNeurorehabilitation in Newcastle. <h3>Professor Jim Richards </h3>Professor Richards' research includes the clinical application ofbiomechanics, the development of new assessment tools for chronicdisease, conservative and surgical management of orthopaedicand neurological conditions, and the development of evidence basedapproaches for improving clinical management and rehabilitation. <h3>Profressor Nerrolyn Ramstrand</h3>Nerrolyn was educated as a Prosthetist/Orthotist at LaTrobe University
and obtained her doctoral degree from the same institution. She is currently
a full professor of Prosthetics and Orthotics and advisor to President’s office
at Jönköping University, Sweden.