7th Mediterranean Congress of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

September 18 - 21, 2008 / Portorož - Portorose, Slovenia

Preliminary Programme


Wednesday,
September 17
Thursday,
September 18
Friday,
September 19
Saturday,
September 20

Sunday,
September 21

• Registration
• Workshop
• Welcome Reception
• Opening ceremony
• Plenary session
• Oral presentations
• Posters
• Workshops
• Plenary session
• Oral presentations
• Posters
• Workshops
• Congress Dinner
• Plenary session
• Oral presentations
• Posters
• Workshops
• Excursions
• Departures
• Transfers
  • Pre-congress Course, September 14 - 17, 2008

Pre-congress Course on Advanced Ultrasound Diagnostics will be organised from Sunday, 14 September to Wednesday, 17 September 2008 in Krka Zdravilišče, Strunjan, led by Prof Martine De Muynck from Gent, Belgium. Local organiser is Primoz Novak, MD, MSc from the Institute for Rehabilitation, Ljubljana.
Maximum 20 participants will be selected from applicants.
Registration fee for 4 full day course will be 400 EUR.
Further instructions will be given to interested applicants.

Wednesday, September 17

20.00 Welcome Reception

17.30 - 18.30 Workshops
  Functional Electrical Therapy (FET) for hemiplegic upper extremity – L. Schwirtlich et al.
  Management of spasticity with intrathecal baclofen – M. Gregorič, et al.
  US of shoulder – M. De Muynck

Thursday, September 18

09.00 – 10.00 Opening ceremony
10.00 – 11.00 Plenary session
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break + Posters
11.30 – 13.25 Oral presentations
12.45 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.30 Oral presentations
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break + Posters
16.00 – 17.30 Oral presentations
17.30 – 19.00 Workshops
  ICF-CY – A. Martinuzzi
  Post-traumatic headache: what every physiatrist should know? – N. Zasler
  Bladder management and urodynamics – P. Di Benedetto

Friday, September 19

08.00 – 11.00 Workshops
  ICF in clinical practice – G. Stucki
  Intraarticular injections - G. Akyuz
08.00 - 9.00 Kinesiology in clinical practice – A. Delarque
  Plantar pressure measurements – H. Burger et al.
09.30 – 11.00 Oral presentations 4
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break + Posters
11.30 – 12.30 Plenary session (2 lectures)
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch
12.30 – 14.00 Assembly
14.30 – 16.00 Oral presentations 5
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break + Posters
16.30 – 18.00 Oral presentations 6
17.30 – 18.30 Posters / Workshops
  New directions for stroke rehabilitation: Clinical monitoring and modulation of brain plasticity – N. Soroker
  Publishing in rehabilitation – how to write an article – G. Grimby
  US in sport medicine – M. De Muynck
  Low back Pain - Martin Grabois

Saturday, September 20

08.00 – 09.20 Workshops 15 - 18
  Problem oriented electrodiagnosis – El-Abd Mohamed
  Seating – Z. Pihlar
  The use of botulinum toxin in treatement of focal spasticity – Z. Pirtošek
09.30 – 11.00 Oral presentations 1
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break + Posters
11.30 – 12.30 Plenary session (2 lectures)
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 Posters
14.00 – 15.30 Oral presentations 2
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break + Posters
16.00 – 17.30 Oral presentations 3
17.30 – 18.30 Closing ceremony