CONFERENCE PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

Saturday 4^th September 2004

09.00 – 17.00 FES courses [Salisbury District Hospital]

14.00 – 18.00 neuralPRO event [Management meeting; Bournemouth]

From 19.00 neuralPRO event [dinner]

Sunday 5^th September 2004

09.00 – 17.00 FES courses [Salisbury District Hospital]

10.00 – 16.00 neuralPRO workshop [Bournemouth]

From 16.00 neuralPRO event [Discussion onYRs’ survey; Bournemouth]

17.00 – 18.30 Registration at the BIC

From 19.00 Conference reception [Bournemouth Pavillion]

Monday 6^th September 2004

From 08.30 Registration at the Bournemouth International Centre, BIC

10.30 – 10.50 Welcome address

10.50 – 11.30 Invited lecture [David Rushton]

11.30 – 12.50 Oral session 1 – Neuromodulation

12.50 – 14.00 Lunch

[Also joint meeting of IFESS and INS Board members]

14.00 – 14.40 Invited lecture [John Rothwell]

14.40 – 16.00 Oral session 2 – Upper Extremities I

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 – 18.10 Oral session 3 – Physiology of FES

From 19.30 Conference dinner [The Wessex Hotel]

Tuesday 7^th September 2004

From 08.00 Registration at the BIC

08.30 – 09.10 Invited lecture [John Chae]

09.10 – 10.40 Invited oral session – Neuromodulation

10.40 – 11.10 Coffee break

11.10 – 12.50 Oral session 4 – Gait and Posture I

12.50 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.40 Invited lecture [Garth Johnson]

14.40 – 16.00 Oral session 5 – Paediatrics

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 – 18.10 Oral session 6 – Bladder and Bowel

18.00 – 20.00 Face to Face - private view
(please see page v)

Wednesday 8^th September 2004

From 08.00 Registration at the BIC

08.30 – 10.10 Oral session 7 – Stimulator and Sensor Technology I

10.10 – 10.30 Coffee break

10.30 – 11.00 Poster session I [odd numbers]

11.00 – 12.40 Oral session 8 – Upper Extremities II

Afternoon Excursions [coaches leave at 13.15 from the Conference Centre]

19.00 IFESS Board Meeting

Thursday 9^th September 2004

From 08.00 Registration at the BIC

08.30 – 10.10 Oral session 9 – Control Techniques

10.10 – 10.30 Coffee break

10.30 – 11.00 Poster session II [even numbers]

11.00 – 12.40 Oral session 10 – Gait and Posture II

12.40 – 13.50 Lunch

13.50 – 15.10 Oral session 11 – Cycling and Rowing

15.10 – 15.50 IFESS Annual General Meeting

15.50 – 16.20 Coffee break

16.20 – 18.00 Oral session 12 – Stimulator and Sensor Technology II

18.00 – 18.10 Closing remarks

From 19.00 Closing conference dinner [Oceanarium and Hot Rocks Café]

[including Vodovnik award for best student paper]

WELCOME

The organising committee would like to take this opportunity of welcoming you to this year’s IFESS meeting. This is the first time the meeting has been held in the U.K. and we hope you enjoy your stay. The theme of this year’s meeting is ‘ Getting FES into Clinical Practice’ . We therefore hope that the papers you hear and the posters you see, will encourage the engineers and scientists among you to go back to your own institutions and look how you can get the products of your R&D into the clinical environment. We also hope that the clinical staff will be impressed by the technology they see and to start planning how they can incorporate such techniques into their routine clinical practice for the benefit of their patients. Whichever of these two routes you choose to follow we hope that over the next few years FES will be far more widely used by people with chronic disabilities to improve their quality of life.

Ian Swain and Paul Taylor - on behalf of the IFESS 2004 Organising Committee

Face to Face

Photographic Arts Project

Karen Hitchlock

With the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and Artcare, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, UK

Face to Face is a collaborative project between the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (MPBE) at Salisbury District Hospital, Artcare (Salisbury and District Hospital Arts Service) and photographer Karen Hitchlock. The project has taken place in conjunction with the MPBE’s randomised controlled trial, on the use of the Odstock Dropped Foot Stimulator (ODFS), with people who have Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Through the media of photography and narrative, ‘Face to Face’ gives people with MS an opportunity to express their own unique experience of living with MS and being a research volunteer. This project seeks to break down the traditional boundaries set by scientists, producing a shift of values which empowers the research volunteer, as it draws away from the analytical and impersonal method and further towards the subjective personal experience of the volunteer.

There is a well-known expression that 'science knows no boundaries’, but in fact scientists are very good at setting boundaries, obeying protocols and focusing on results. It is this type of knowledge that is seen to matter in the scientific community. It is impersonal, public, productive and verifiable. But there is a weakness in this scientific approach as it allows scientists and clinicians to become more and more abstracted from their clients and their client’s reality. It also encourages a dispassionate and detached approach, which is in conflict with the clinicians dual role as the objective researcher and the caring clinician.

‘Face to Face’ aims to give people with MS an opportunity to raise issues that are important to them, to find common ground and a mutual understanding of the impact of MS on their lives, the limitations, disabilities and effect on relationships, work, hopes and aspirations. By presenting the stories of trial volunteers in photographs and narrative - in conjunction with the science - this project presents a more balanced view and encourages a reappraisal of the research scientist’s relationship with their research volunteers, encouraging new standards of behaviour in research, treatment and monitoring.

Funded by the Wellcome Trust People Awards and Supported by Salisbury Health Care HNS Trust and the MS Trust.

INVITED LECTURES

Invited talks

What FES might people need?

Physiology of FES

Hart DJ, Taylor PN, Chappell PH, Wood DE

Daly JJ, Roenigk K, Rogers J, Butler PTK, Marsolais B, Gansen J, Ruff R

Durham S, Eve L, Turner-Simmonds C, Daniel C, Stevens C, Ewins DJ

Johnston TE, Smith BT, Betz RR, Mulcahey MJ

Richmond FJR, Baker LL, Winstein C, Waters RL, Loeb GE

Vanoncini M, Andrews BJ</