Rapid Rounds: The Multidisciplinary Approach to the Hypermobile Patient, What's Hip in Kids With Joint Pain, Lipid Screening and Treating Updates

Rapid Rounds 1 -The Multidisciplinary Approach to the Hypermobile Patient
This course will discuss how using an integrated team approach to treating the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders patient will offer a variety of services to help evaluate and design individualized treatment programs for the hypermobile patients. Additionally, this lecture will show how incorporating primary care, preventative medicine, cardiology, electrophysiology, neurological examination, osteopathic manipulative treatment, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and nonpharmacologic pain management will help the hypermobile patient manage the multiple symptoms and comorbidities of EDS. The lecture will also discuss pre-surgical clearance and preventative tests that providers who take care of EDS patients should be aware of.

Learning Objectives

  • Work across specialties to help evaluate, treat and incorporate coordination of care programs for the hypermobile patients. Each treatment plan is arranged by taking into consideration the patients' symptoms and co-morbidities related to their hypermobility.
  • Recognize co-morbid conditions of EDS and their symptoms, utilizing primary care, preventative medicine, cardiology, electrophysiology, neurological examination, osteopathic manipulative treatment, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and nonpharmacologic pain management to help the hypermobile patient manage the multiple symptoms and comorbidities of EDS.
  • Identify the 13 subtypes of EDS, 4 subtypes of HSDs and the most common subtype of EDS.

Rapid Rounds 2 - What's Hip in Kids With Joint Pain
This 20-minute lecture will utilize a case presentation to review the differential and work-up for common causes of pediatric hip pain with an emphasis on identifying red-flag features concerning for more serious underlying pathology.

Learning Objectives
  • Generate a broad differential for various causes of hip pain in children.
  • Summarize the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendations regarding initial work-up for pediatric patients presenting with hip pain.
  • List at least 5 red flag features on history or physical examination warranting further evaluation in children presenting with joint pains.

Rapid Rounds 3 -Lipid Screening and Treating Update
This lecture provides an interactive discussion of key issues surrounding lipid therapy.

Learning Objectives
  • Understand the basic history and evolution of lipid treatment.
  • Present treatment guidelines.
  • Familiarize yourself with emerging therapies and data.
Presenters
Bernadette Riley, DO, FACOFP, FILM
Richard Latuska, MD
Ryan Garbalosa, DO

Disclosure Information
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Accreditation and Credit Statements
The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

ACOFP designates this program for a maximum number of 1.0 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.


Disclaimer
This program is sponsored by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Attendees participating in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.

Questions
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