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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, October 23, 2024
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM  
    Cryoneurolysis: Novel & Emerging Treatment for Pain Associated with Spasticity
  • Thursday, October 24, 2024
  • 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM  
    WELCOME: Official Start of Spasticity X!
  • 1:50 PM – 2:15 PM  
    KEYNOTE 1: Milestones in the 40 years since Lance defined Spasticity
  • 2:15 PM – 2:40 PM  
    KEYNOTE 2:Predicting spasticity
  • 2:40 PM – 3:05 PM  
    KEYNOTE 3: Spasticity and Pain
  • 3:05 PM – 3:20 PM  
    Q&A
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM  
    Parallel Session 1: Pathophysiology
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM  
    Parallel Session 2: Special Topics, Part 1
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM  
    Welcome & Poster Gallery Reception
  • Friday, October 25, 2024
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM  
    Breakfast Symposium supported by AbbVie-Changing the tone: Addressing inequities in spasticity care
  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Parallel Session 3: Spotlight on Emerging Experts
  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Parallel Session 4: Imaging and Operant Conditioning
  • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM  
    Piramal's Hands-On ITB Pump Refill Demo
  • 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM  
    Parallel Session 5: Physical Interventions
  • 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM  
    Parallel Session 6: The Lived Experience of Spasticity
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM  
    Lunch & Learn Product Theater: Live Patient Case & Toxin Injection supported by Ipsen
  • 1:40 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Parallel Session 7: Advanced Technology Applications in Spasticity
  • 1:40 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Parallel Session 8: Special Topics, Part 2
  • 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM  
    Amneal's Pump the Brakes: Enhancing Sterility and Efficiency of Intrathecal Baclofen Pump Refills
  • 3:45 PM – 5:40 PM  
    Parallel Session 9: Journal Club Sponsored by the UTHealth McGovern Medical School Department of PM&R
  • 3:45 PM – 5:40 PM  
    Parallel Session 10: Focus on Neurolysis
  • Saturday, October 26, 2024
  • 8:00 AM – 8:25 AM  
    Muscle Synergies and Spasticity
  • 8:25 AM – 8:50 AM  
    KEYNOTE: Neuro-orthopedics
  • 8:50 AM – 9:15 AM  
    Hyperselective neurectomy
  • 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM  
    Q&A-Session Chairs
  • 9:25 AM – 10:00 AM  
    BREAK
  • 10:00 AM – 10:25 AM  
    Neuro-orthopedics
  • 10:25 AM – 10:50 AM  
    Hyperselective and partial selective neurectomy in the spastic limb
  • 10:50 AM – 11:15 AM  
    Cognitive nerve transfers in upper motor neuron syndrome
  • 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Q&A
  • 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM  
    DaxibotulinumtoxinA
  • 11:50 AM – 12:10 PM  
    Introduction to Korean Toxins and Clinical Trials
  • 12:10 PM – 12:30 PM  
    Q&A-Session Chairs
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM  
    Lunch & Learn Symposium Supported by Merz
  • 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM  
    Bioengineered toxins
  • 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM  
    High dose botulinum toxin therapy
  • 2:25 PM – 2:50 PM  
    Clinical Relevance of Neutralizing Antibodies to Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A
  • 2:50 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Functional implications of chronic long-term treatment of post-stroke spasticity with botulinum toxin
  • 3:15 PM – 3:40 PM  
    Early Use of Botulinum Toxins for Spasticity
  • 3:40 PM – 4:10 PM  
    BREAK
  • 4:10 PM – 4:25 PM  
    Presentation of the recommendation by the spasticity Re-Definition workgroup
  • 4:25 PM – 4:45 PM  
    Feedback from participants on the spasticity Re-Definition Workgroup recommendations
  • 4:45 PM – 5:05 PM  
    CLOSING PLENARY Spasticity 2030: Where to Now?
  • 5:05 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Closing Remarks and Adjournment