How to Manage: Recognising Neuromuscular Disorders
This course focuses on the early recognition of neuromuscular conditions, bringing together a multi-professional team to deliver a case-based programme for health visitors, nurses, physiotherapists, general practitioners & allied healthcare professionals.
What is the course about?
This course focuses on the early recognition of neuromuscular conditions, bringing together a multi-professional team to deliver a case-based programme for health visitors, nurses, physiotherapists, general practitioners & allied healthcare professionals.
Muscle wasting conditions affect around 1 in every 1000 person in the UK. This one-day course will teach you a clear approach to effectively recognise a wide range of neuromuscular conditions such as Duchenne’s MD and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and carry out assessments for 0-5 year olds.
Using a mix of workshops, case studies and interactive tools to highlight which red flags you need to look out for, and how to correctly assess and recognise floppy babies, abnormal gait and muscular weakness.
Target Audience
- Paediatric Trainees
- SAS doctors
- Consultant Paediatric Cardiologists/ General Consultant Paediatricians
- Paediatricians with an interest in Cardiac medicine
- AHPs working in Paediatric Cardiology
Learning Aims, Objectives and Outcomes:
Aim:
This study day will help you develop an approach for early recognition of a wide-range of neuromuscular disorders.
Outcome:
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Use a clear, structured approach to assessing motor development in children aged 0-5 years
- Recognise abnormal motor development (i.e. floppy baby, “clumsy” child, abnormal gait)
- Report your findings in a structured way
- Recognise the range of neuromuscular disorders in children
- Explain why early detection is so important and discuss advances in treatment and care.
Faculty Lead
Dr Henriette van Ruiten
Dr Henriette van Ruiten is a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist in Newcastle who specialises in neuromuscular disorders. Dr van Ruiten is passionate about speeding up the diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders, as an early diagnosis allows early access to care standards and new treatments, which greatly improves outcome. She has developed a new RCPCH eLearning module (and accompanying free workshops) to help front line professionals spot abnormal motor development in babies and children, often a first sign of a neuromuscular disorders.
Related resourses
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Recognising Neuromuscular Disorders: A practical approach
Welcome to this eLearning module on a practical approach to recognising neuromuscular disorders. Recognising Neuromuscular Disorders: A practical approach is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME).