• WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009 -> EVENING GATHERING
Location: Copa Café – Av. Atlântica 3056 - Copacabana Beach
19:00 to 22:00: Reception & Registration with fine appetizers and drinks
• THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009 -> INSTRUCTOR DAY
Location: Educational Center (Av. N. Sra. de Copacabana 928 sala 1202)
08:00 - 08:30 Registration
08:30 – 10:00 IPNFA: The Past and the Future. What have we accomplished?
Where are we heading?
Susanne Hedin; Swiss Group; Polish Group(IPNFA Instructors)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Stabilizing Techniques – Neurophysiology
Benedikt Bömer, PT, IPNFA Advanced Instructor, Germany
Kitty Hartmann, PT, IPNFA Senior Instructor, Germany
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 News Ideas for Techniques
Carsten Schafer, PT, IPNFA Senior Instructor, Germany
14:30 – 15:30 Facilitating Gait: My Approach
Angela Oldenburg, PT, IPNFA Advanced Instructor, Germany
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 – Sightseeing to “Sugar Loaf” leaving from Pestana Hotel
• FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009 -> BUSINESS DAY
Location: Educational Center (Av. N. Sra. de Copacabana 928 sala 1202)
08:00 – 09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00 – 10:30 Opening of the business day, Monica Cilento, Carsten Schaefer
1.Introduction
2.Update of the membership list
-New members, new instructors
-Expelled members, and others
3.Counting of the voting members
4.Review and acceptance of the minutes 2008(Hoensbroek/Netherlands)
5.Executive Committee Report, Brigitte Gattlen, Carsten Schaefer
-Report and outlook, Web-Site, “to-do list”, Secretary, Proposals
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:50 6.continuing … Executive Committee Carsten Schaefer
Proposals: National IPNFA Groups
7.Treasurer’s Report, Frits Westerholt
-Review and acceptance
-Financial Report and Budget
11:50 – 12:00 Walk to the Restaurant
12:00 – 13:30 Catered lunch in buffet, also vegetarian
13:30 – 15:30 8.Education Committee Report, Marcel Grzebellus
-Report and next year’s outlook
-Proposals
9.Research Committee Report, t.b.a.
10.Peer Review / Grievance Committee Report, t.b.a.
11.Elections – Nominating Committee, Shigeyuki Ichikawa
15:30 – 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 – 17:00 12.IPNFA Meeting Organisation
-Experience Hoensbroek 2008 / Rio 2009
-Future Meetings 2010 Graz / Austria
-2011 … ?
-Proposals
13.Report of the International Representation of the IPNFA
17:00 – 17:30 End of Business Day
• SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009 -> EDUCATION DAY
Location: Pestana Rio Atlântica Hotel
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:15 Meeting Opening by IPNFA President and Vice-president
and local organizers
• LECTURES:
09:20 - 10:00 “Let your Patients Fall on the Floor: Facilitation for Fall
Training and Getting Up From the Floor.”
Dominiek Beckers, PT, IPNFA Senior Instructor,Belgium
10:00 - 10:40 “Treatment Approach with PNF for Patients with Dysphagia”
Benedikt Bömer, PT, IPNFA Advanced Instructor, Germany
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:50 “Treating CMD with PNF and Manual Therapy: An
Interconceptual Approach”
Mathias Schulte, PT, IPNFA Instructor, Germany
11:50 - 12:30 “The Combination of PNF and Pilates”
José Vicente Martins, PT, IPNFA Instructor, Brazil
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 “Dynamic Segmental Stabilization : New Perspectives”
Carla Danielle Chagas da Silva, PT, Manual Therapy MS, Brazil
14:40 - 15:20 “Study of Gait as Activity and Participation Level – Differences
Between Gait Economy Inside the Room, Outside, and on
Different Grounds Outside”
Aleksander Lizak, PT, IPNFA Advanced Instructor, Poland
15:20 – 15:45 Coffee Break
• ORAL PRESENTATIONS:
15:45 – 16:00 Weighting Bearing Ratio
Hwang Seongsoo, PT (South Corea)
16:00 – 16:15 Concurrent Use of FES and PNF: Effect on Hemiparetic Gait
Thais de Lima Resende, PT, PhD (Porto Alegre - Brasil)
16:15 – 16:30 Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation: Effects on Gait
Pattern in Elderly Fallers
Mauro Gonçalves PT, PhD ( Rio Claro - Brasil)
16:30 – 16:45 The Simultaneous use of the Vibrating Platform and the PNF
Method as Means to Reach Higher Efficiency of Muscle Activation
Renato Loffi, PT (Belo Horizonte-Brasil)
16:45 – 17:00 Application of PNF Principles in Two Dogs (canis familiaris) with
Locomotion Disabilities Due to Neurological Disorders.
Marimar Mayworm Beck, PT, VM (Petrópolis -Brasil)
17:00 - 17:15 Proposal of Therapeutic Intervention in a Central Cord
Syndrome Patient with FES and PNF: A Case Study
Eduardo Carneiro, PT (Goiânia - Brasil)
17:15 – 17:30 Influence of Visual Feedback in the Force of Grip Strength
Nilton Damasceno Corrêa, PT (Brasília – Brasil)
17:30 – 17:45 The PNF Effect in the Balance of Individuals with Spinocerebellar
Ataxia Type 3 – Machado- Joseph Disease: A Pilot Study
Felipe Lemos, PT, MSc (Pindamonhangaba – Brasil)
17:45 – 18:00 Final Comments
• SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009 -> DAY OF WORKSHOPS
Location: Educational Center (Av. N. Sra. de Copacabana 928 sala 1202)
• WORKSHOPS:
08:00 – 10:30 PNF and Motor Learning in Gait
Dominiek Beckers, PT, IPNFA Senior Instructor,Belgium
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:30 PNF and Manual Therapy
Kitty Hartmann, PT, IPNFA Senior Instructor,Germany
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 17:30 Irradiation
Carsten Schäefer, PT, IPNFA Senior Instructor,Germany and
Marcel Grzebellus PT, IPNFA Senior Instructor,Germany
