AAPM&R Annual Assembly 2019

November 14-17, 2019. San Antonio, Texas.

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Saturday, November 16, 2019

11:15am-12:45pm: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Acute Care Consult Service Increases Acute Rehabilitation Referrals for Stroke Survivors: A Quality Improvement Project
Matthew B. Sonagere (Sunnyview Hospital, Rexford, United States)

11:15am-12:45pm: Plasma Osteopontin Levels as a Biomarker for Abuse in Traumatic Brain Injuries
Margaret O. Martinez (Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, New Jersey, United States); Andrew Reisner; Joshua Vova, MD; Iqbal Sayeed, PhD; Laura Blackwell, PhD

11:15am-12:45pm: Post-traumatic Syrinx Formation Following Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report
Alyssa B. Zuziak, DO (Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH PM&R Program, Cherry Hill, NJ, United States); Eileen Shieh, MD

11:15am-12:45pm: Potential Factors of Heart Rate Adaptation After 8 weeks of Walking Training in Individuals with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: Preliminary Results
Ramzi A. Alajam, PT, MPT, DPT (University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, United States); Abdulfattah S. Alqahtani, PT, MS, PhD; Jason Frederick, MD; Wen Liu, PhD

11:15am-12:45pm: Predictive Ability of Acute Care Functional and Medical Stability Measures on Likelihood of Home Discharge and Length of Stay from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
Kenton L. Hagan, MD, MBA, MSF (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States); Jeremy Charles, MD

11:15am-12:45pm: Presenting Modified Oswestry Disability Indices: Assessing Degree of Low Back Pain Disability at the Initial Visit to a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinic
John Taylor Mansfied, DO (Medstar - Georgetown University/National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC, United States); Marc P. Gruner, DO, MBA, RMSK; Nolan Gall, MD; Bryan Thomas. Murtaugh, MD; Matthew Maxwell, MD, CAQSM, FAAPMR

11:15am-12:45pm: Prolonged Tetraparesis in Posterior Fossa Syndrome: A Case Report
Stephanie Miller, DO (Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH PM&R Program, Philadelphia, PA, United States); Eileen Shieh, MD

11:15am-12:45pm: Prospective Assessment of Pain During the First Year After Spinal Cord Injury
Javier A. Santana, MD (University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States); Elizabeth R. Felix, PhD

11:15am-12:45pm: Psychosocial Factors Predicting Response to Epidural Steroid Injection (ESI) for Chronic Radicular Pain
Briana Cobos, MA (University of Texas Health Science Center- San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States); Don McGeary, PhD; Ameet Nagpal, MD, MS, MEd; Maxim Eckmann, MD; David E. Reed, II; Cindy McGeary, PhD

11:15am-12:45pm: Rapidly Progressive Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease in the Acute Rehab Setting: A Case Report
Anita M. Lowe Taylor, MD (Stanford University PM&R Program, Union City, CA, United States); Priya Varma, MD, MPH

11:15am-12:45pm: Rare Multifocal Intraparenchymal Hemorrhages Following Spinal Surgery: A Case Report
Kathy Chou, DO (Rutgers New Jersey Medical School PM&R Program, Bloomfield, NJ, United States); Allison Averill, MD

11:15am-12:45pm: Rare X

11:15am-12:45pm: Rationale in Giving Salivary Gland Botulinum Toxin Injections to Children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Single Center Retrospective Study
Aaron J. Charnay, MD (Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States); John Rausch, MD, MPH; Amber Newell, MS, PNP, RN, OTR/L; Heakyung Kim, MD

11:15am-12:45pm: Recognition and Management of Early Serotonin Syndrome: A Case Report
Kathy Chou, DO (Rutgers New Jersey Medical School PM&R Program, Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States); Allison Averill, MD

11:15am-12:45pm: Reduced Cost of Spine Care with an Integrated, Multidisciplinary Approach
Patricia Z. Zheng, MD (University of California San Francisco, San Carlos, CA, United States); Peter I-Kung Wu; Conor O'Neill

11:15am-12:45pm: Reducing Patient Falls on an Acute Inpatient Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit Through Improved Patient Monitoring
Ashley T. Kakkanatt, MD (Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine PM&R Program, Mount Kisco, NY, United States); Erika Trovato, DO; Rachel Feld-Glazman, OTR/L

11:15am-12:45pm: Reducing Post-operative Pain and Opioid Consumption Through Evidence-based Medicine: An Educational Quality Improvement Project
Steven M. Markos, MD (JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, New Brunswick, NJ, United States); Aakash Thakral, MD; Sara J. Cuccurullo, MD; Lei Lin, MD PhD

11:15am-12:45pm: Reducing Readmissions to Acute Care from Inpatient Rehabilitation: Identifying Trends and Implementing Intervention
Brittni Micham, MD (Stanford University and VA Palo Alto, United States); Maryanne Henderson, DO; Alex D'Angelo, MD; Alexander Lloyd, MD; Marisa Moreta, DO; Lauren M. Desmarais, DO; Joelle Gabet, MD; Rohit Navlani, DO; Kerry Deluca, MD

11:15am-12:45pm: Remarkable Functional Recovery of a 9-year-old Female Nearly 3 Years After Initial Diagnosis of Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis: A Case Report
David Liang, MD (University of Pennsylvania, Norfolk, PA, United States); Amanda Moran, DO; Jean E. Shelton, MD

11:15am-12:45pm: Research on Yoga as a Therapeutic Tool in Leading Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Journals over the past Decade Is Scarce
Sarah Smith, MBBS (University of Washington PM&R Program, Seattle, WA, United States); Kirstin Weider, DO; Emily A. Tisma, BS; Rohan M. Venida, OMS III