Teaching team
- Dr Eug猫ne Rameckers (Adelante, Netherlands) pioneered the development of intensive rehabilitation holiday camps in the Netherlands. He has extensive expertise (>10 camps) and leads a team of physiotherapists and occupational therapists active in the field. He will cover induced stress and its modifications during one day of training, and will devote a second day to functional strength training.
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- Dr Carlyne Arnould is Professor of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy at the Haute Ecole Louvain en Hainaut. She is one of the leading experts in the field of assessing children with cerebral palsy. In particular, she developed the ABILHAND-Kids questionnaire, which is used worldwide. She will devote 2 days to training in the assessment tools needed to quantify changes during intensive and functional rehabilitation.
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- 听听听 Dr Yannick Bleyenheuft is a lecturer at the Faculty of Motor Sciences and an honorary associate of the Cerebral Palsy Center at Columbia University (NY). She is an expert in upper limb motor control and intensive bimanual therapy. She developed the HABIT-ILE project combining upper and lower limb therapies and successfully ran the first 4 therapeutic holiday camps for children with cerebral palsy in Belgium. Her research and field team is made up of occupational therapists and physiotherapists. She will devote 2 days of teaching to reviewing the foundations of therapies based on voluntary motor control, the discovery of the HABIT (bimanual) and HABIT-ILE (bimanual and locomotor) therapies. She will also introduce the scientific basis for the use of virtual reality in functional therapy. She will be responsible for the practical courses.
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- Dr Geoffroy Saussez: Dr Geoffroy Saussez is a researcher and professor of physiotherapy and occupational therapy at the Haute Ecole Louvain en Hainaut (HELHa). A physiotherapist by training, he also works for the Intensive Rehabilitation Foundation, organising and running HABIT-ILE therapy courses.听 In 2021, he will complete his thesis in motor sciences at the Institute of Neurosciences, Motor Skill Learning and Intensive Neurorehabilitation lab (UCL). His areas of expertise include the care and motor rehabilitation of cerebral palsy patients (paediatrics and adults) and the application of new technologies (virtual environments) as tools in motor rehabilitation. He will be present throughout the course (6 days) and will be responsible for part of the practical training.