<p> health care in Guatemala through 5. Attain understanding of basic biomechanical Program Faculty education, surgery, and therapy. principles as applied to utilization of dynamic and static progressive components. Sharon Andruskiwec PT, CHT is a clinician Target audience: and supervisor of the Hand Therapy Program PT’s, OT’s, COTA’s, PTA’s with an interest in at Orthopaedic Specialty Group in Fairfield upper extremity orthoses fabrication. No Program Agenda CT. She has 35 years of experience as a PT previous experience required. and has been a CHT since 1999. Sharon has 7:30- 8:00 Registration & continental breakfast lectured nationally and internationally on a Program Overview 8:00 – 9:00 Lecture: Basic principles of orthotic variety of topics including splinting. She is on fabrication the board of Directors of GHHF and has Orthotic fabrication is a unique blend of art and traveled to Guatemala 10 times since 2004 as science. The goal of this program is to educate 9:00- 12:00 Orthotic fabrication lab a member of GHHF missions and AAHS therapists in the basic science of orthotic Vargas mission which was the genesis of 9:00- 10:00 Wrist cock-up fabrication (aka splinting) and give them an GHHF. opportunity to get hands on experience with 10:00- 11:00 Thumb spica Lisa Cyr, OTD, OTR/L, CHT, has been the guidance of experienced hand therapists. 11:00- 12:00 Resting hand/ Pan specializing in hand therapy since the early The afternoon portion of the program will nineties. She is employed at Coastal introduce some slightly more advanced 12:00- 1:00 lunch (bring your own) Orthopaedics in Norwalk CT and is adjunct concepts of dynamic and static progressive faculty at Sacred Heart University. Lisa is 1:00 - 1:30 Lecture: Pediatric orthoses splinting and special considerations when active in the hand therapy community, dealing with the pediatric population including several professional publications 1:30- 2:00 Lecture: Dynamic/ static progressive and lectures both nationally and orthoses internationally on a variety of topics Course Objectives: 2:00- 5:00 Orthotic fabrication lab including splinting. She will be going to Guatemala with GHHF April 2015 for the 4th 1. Understand basic principles of orthotic 2:00- 3:00 Dynamic MP / IP flexion time. selection and fabrication 3:00- 4:00 Low profile radial nerve Lab Assistants: Tori Channell MS, OTR/L, 2. Gain knowledge of materials available and CHT, Tricia Jenkins OTR/L CHT, Heather their properties 4:00- 5:00 Serpentine, Anti claw, or Wilkens Mogielnicki OT/L, CHT 3. Practice fabrication of static orthoses TBD per class preference The Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation 4. Determine indication for dynamic vs static is a nonprofit organization dedicated to progress orthoses based on tissue healing principles improving the quality and availability of </p><p> www.guatemalahands.org</p>