Spasticity and Botulinum Toxin: An Overview

Please join Professor Soumya Ghosh, Consultant Neurologist, and Claire Tucak, Neurological Physiotherapist, for an informative webinar on spasticity and treatment with Botulinum Toxin. They run the Toxin Clinic at the Perron Institute in Perth, WA, and will discuss the medical and physiotherapy management of spasticity. They will emphasize the role of the treating physiotherapist as a critical part of the multidisciplinary management of spasticity including referral advice, identification of goals and rehab post Botox.

Presenters

Professor Soumya Ghosh, is a neurologist with special interest in Clinical Neurophysiology and Movement Disorders. He is a consultant neurologist at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth Children’s Hospital, Fiona Stanley Hospital and the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science. He is involved in acute and inpatient hospital care in Neurology. He runs specialty clinics in Movement Disorders and Toxin clinics for dystonia and spasticity. Other clinics include General Neurology and Epilepsy. His Neurophysiology practise involves diagnostic (e.g. EEG, evoked potentials), monitoring (e.g. intraoperative monitoring for spinal surgery) and therapeutic (deep brain stimulation, non-invasive brain stimulation) applications. His current research studies and clinical trials include the neurophysiology of human motor control and brain plasticity, the use of non-invasive brain stimulation in neurology and rehabilitation, the study of pulmonary function in Parkinson’s Disease, and the study of epilepsy in neonates and children.

Claire Tucak, MACP is an APA Neurological Physiotherapist and she is currently working as the Senior Physiotherapist at the Perron Institute/Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia. As part of this role she supports the Spasticity Botoulinum Toxin clinics working with Dr Ghosh and the other neurologists. She has worked in acute neurology/stroke wards, stroke rehab unit and stroke/neurology outpatients and has always had an interest in spasticity management for these patients.

Host

Neurology National Group

Date of Live Event

06/09/2022 

CPD Hours

1.5 Hours

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