Description: This multidisciplinary conference highlights current advances in pediatric orthopaedics and sports medicine, emphasizing evidence-based diagnosis, innovative technologies, rehabilitation, and return-to-play strategies. Through expert-led presentations and case-based discussions, attendees will gain practical tools to optimize outcomes for young athletes and active youth from elementary school to high school. This year’s topics will include: Heat Illness, AI Tools, Dartfish Motion Analysis, Hand/Wrist Injuries, Foot/Ankle Injuries, Hip Injuries, Mental Health, Concussion, Robotics and Nutrition in athletes.

Objectives: • Distinguish the major categories of artificial intelligence used in clinical medicine and describe how each interfaces with healthcare workflows. • Identify emerging AI applications relevant to pediatric orthopedics and sports medicine. • Apply a basic framework for critically evaluating AI tools in clinical practice, including considerations of model transparency, bias, evidence quality, and appropriate use in a pediatric population. • Differentiate between the types of heat illness. • Describe the appropriate actions to take for a patient with heat stroke. • Describe the benefits of using slow motion video analysis combined with traditional rehabilitation instead of traditional rehabilitation alone. • Assess the different components of the throwing motion based on video motion analysis. • Discuss the variety of ailments that can affect the young gymnast’s wrist. • Recognize when it’s time to refer an athlete with hand/wrist pain to a trainer/APP/MD. • Describe the time course and nature of recovering the ailments prior to their return to sport. • Define pertinent dance vocabulary. • Perform brief ballet specific exam for ankle and foot pain. • Identify common ankle and foot injuries in dancers. • Differentiate between key biomechanical and movement demands of common dance positions and skills, including demi-pointe, pointe, relevé, landing, and single-leg movements. • Analyze dance movement using video-based assessment to identify clinically relevant deficits in alignment, technique, balance, and lower-extremity mechanics. • Assess a patient with hip pain. • Distinguish urgent from non-urgent hip injuries. • Identify the most common running gait deviations that contribute to developing a running related injury. • Identify at least three signs or behavioral changes that may indicate mental health distress in a high school student-athlete. • Describe at least three strategies for initiating a mental health conversation with a student-athlete and determining appropriate support or referral. • Apply the Recognize–Respond–Refer approach to a clinical case involving psychological distress in a student-athlete. • Identify concussion red flags and signs of when to consider an alternative, more serious diagnosis. • Discuss a treatment plan for a concussion. • Define a common academic recovery plan and return-to-play protocol for an athlete with a concussion. • Identify benefits of advanced rehabilitation technology for use with injured, post-operative, or post-immobilization patients. • Determine clinical characteristics that make a patient appropriate for participation in a Robotic rehabilitation program. • Calculate energy needs for individuals participa

Status: Active

Activity Difficulty Level: Essential

Domains:

• Assessment
• Evaluation and Diagnosis
• Critical Incident Management
• Risk Reduction
• Wellness and Health Literacy
• Specialty (Orthopedic): Medical Knowledge
• Specialty (Orthopedic): Procedural Knowledge
• Specialty (Orthopedic): Professional Practice
• Therapeutic Intervention

Format: Face to Face

Dual Credentials and JA: Nursing Professionals, Physical Therapy Professionals, Physicians

Theme: Adolescent Orthopedic & Sports Medicine

Capacity: 100

City: Atlanta

State: Georgia (GA)

Zip Code: 30329

CEUs: 6.5