AAOS Workers' Compensation Course

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Friday, November 6, 9:10am-11:10am CST Room 1: Causation Analysis - Upper Limb (Dr. Mark Melhorn) Room 2: Ask the Judge (Judge David Langham and Dr. James Talmage) Room 3: Lumbar Spine Care and Treatment (Drs. Dan Spengler and David Bauer) Room 4: Impairment Ratings Using the AMA Guide 6th Edition - Introduction and Upper (Drs. Marilyn Yodlowski and Charles Brooks) Room 5: AMA Guides and ADL - Activities of Daily Living (Dr. Mark Hyman)

Friday, November 6, 11:30am-1:30pm CST Room 1: What is that IME Report Really Saying? (Drs. Ian Fries and Naomi Shields) Room 2: Impairment Ratings Using the AMA Guide 6th Edition - Spine and Lower (Drs. Marilyn Yodlowski and Charles Brooks) Room 3: Chronic Pain: How to Make Sense of It Within Orthopaedic Claims (Dr. Robert Barth) Room 4: The Method for Causation Analysis - Lower Limb (Drs. James Talmage and David Fetter)

Friday, November 6, 1:50pm-3:50pm CST Room 1: The Method for Causation Analysis - Spine-Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar (Dr. Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach) Room 2: Establishing an IME Practice (Dr. Marilyn Yodlowski and Wanda Roehl, CPS) Room 3: Brain Injury (Dr. Robert Barth) Room 4: Lumbar Imaging (Dr. James Talmage) Room 5: Cervical Spine Care and Treatment (Drs. David Bauer and Dan Spengler)

Saturday, November 7, 9:10am-11:10am CST Room 1: Is Minor Trauma an Independent Predictor of Low Back Pain: A 10-Year Follow Up Study & High Exposure to Repetitive and Acute Trauma to the Back and Neck (Drs. Eugene Carragee and James Talmage) Room 2: Applications of New Technology in an IME Practice (Dr. Marilyn Yodlowski) Room 3: Psychometric Questionnaires for the Orthopaedist (Dr. Mark Hyman) Room 4: You Be the Judge - Examples for Upper Limb, Lower Limb and Spine (Drs. Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach and Richard Strain)

Saturday, November 7, 11:30am-12:30pm CST Room 1: Utilizing the Causation Analysis Method - Case Examples (Drs. Robert Barth and Mark Melhorn) Room 2: Pain Management and Opioids for the Practicing Orthopaedist (Dr. Gary Pushkin) Room 3: WC 101 - How Guidelines "Establish" Appropriate Care (Ken Eichler, Jeffrey Hazlewood, MD, Stephen Norwood, MD, FAAOS and Rosalie Faris, RN, BSN, CCM, COHN-S) Room 4: Electrodiagnostic Studies (NCT/EMG) How to Read and Understand Part 1 (Dr. James Talmage) Room 5: The Causality Examination - Physiological and Non-Physiological Signs (Drs. Ian Fries and Naomi Shields)

Saturday, November 7, 12:40pm-1:40pm CST Room 1: Tools That Can Measure Ergonomics Risk in the Workplace (Dr. Keith White and Steven Haynes, MPA) Room 2: Causation Analysis of the Cervical Spine (Dr. Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach) Room 3: WC 102 - Utilization Review - Understanding Insurance Carriers and TPA (Third-Party Administrators) (Ken Eichler, Rosalie Faris, RN, BSN, CCM, COHN-S, Jeffrey Hazlewood, MD and Stephen Norwood, MD, FAAOS Room 4: Electrodiagnostic Studies (NCT/EMG) How to Read and Understand Part 2 Conditions (Dr. James Talmage) Room 5: Mental Illness - Consideration for Legal Claims (Dr. Robert Barth)

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