On Saturday 14 June 2014, Felicity Whitton (Nutty) and I are off to Baltimore for training at the Restorative Therapies Clinical Training Centre on the RT600. I will also attend an advanced training on the SAGE controller – the FES Powered Systems Course for clinicians. Local patients volunteer to support the program, which will provide excellent “hands on” training opportunities. These courses will ensure that we can use both the RT300 and RT600 to their full extent, and confidently establish therapy progression.
We will also be visiting the Kennedy Krieger Institute which is an internationally recognized institution dedicated to improving the lives of children and adolescents with pediatric developmental disabilities and disorders of the brain, spinal cord and musculoskeletal system.
While I am on the 2 1/2 day clinician course, Nutty will be wandering around Baltimore, looking for “soft crab” which she has been informed is a delicacy there. My main site-seeing goal is the Barnes and Noble bookstore which is a 10 minute walk from the hotel.