Optimising Paediatric Upper Limb Function: A 2-Day Practical Course for Therapists
When: 15 & 16 October; 9 am-5.00 pm
Where: On-line (Zoom)
Cost: £300 + VAT
Paediatric occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy professionals working with children.
The course is designed to strengthen your assessment and intervention skills for children with upper limb challenges in this interactive, evidence-informed 2-day course. You will gain practical tools and clinical reasoning strategies to design activity-based upper limb programmes that enhance functional outcomes for children and families.
In this training you will:
- Deepen your understanding of upper limb development and impairment profiles,
- Strengthen assessment, goal-setting andclinical observation skills,
- Apply motor learning and neuroplasticity principles to practice,
- Develop confidence delivering mCIMT, bimanual and hybrid approaches,
- Integrate action observation and goal-directed training,
- Adapt interventions for CP, DCD,brachial plexus injury and complexpresentations,
- Embed family-centred and multidisciplinary strategies.
Day 1–Foundations, Assessment & Evidence-Based Practice:
- Upper limb development and movement analysis,
- Assessment approaches (clinical and standardisedtools),
- Functional goal-setting (COPM, GAS, family-centred frameworks),
- Understanding impairments: tone, weakness, neglect,
- Neuroplasticity and motor learning principles,
- Activity-based vs impairment-focused approaches,
- Practical video analysis and case discussion.
Day 2–Practical Delivery of Activity-Based Rehabilitation:
- Implementing modified Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (mCIMT),
- Designing bimanual and hybrid intervention models,
- Action observation and goal-directed training,
- Adapting for complex cases (CP, DCD, brachial plexus injury),
- Overcoming sensory, cognitive and behavioural barriers,
- Designing a structured 6-week upper limb programme.
Format: Interactive teaching, practical labs, video analysis and case discussion
Leave with practical strategies, structured programme planning tools and greaterconfidence to deliver impactful upper limb rehabilitation.
Presented by Dr Jill Massey
Dr Jill Massey, clinician–researcher at Evelina London Children’s Healthcare & King’s College London, and Clinical Consultant for the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Australia.
Jill led the first global Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD) study in childhood-onsetdisability, resulting in nationally adopted resources including the Guide to Understanding Hemiplegia.
As an educator, shesupports clinicians to translate evidence, lived experience andclinical reasoning into meaningful, person-centred upper limb intervention