STREAM: Children & Adolescent Podiatry
Dr. Antoni Caserta (PhD) works as a is Paediatric Podiatrist across public, private and academic sectors. Antoni’s private practice focuses on injured young athletes, infant foot conditions, simple and complex gait disorders, chronic pain or disability...(read more below).
Children and teenagers are vulnerable due to future health being dependent on current health, their behaviours, development, and the overall environmental impact on wellbeing. Foot, ankle or leg conditions in children and teenagers can change body function, participation in care, family, and education settings, or how much activity can be performed compared to children without these conditions. There is an increasing interest and use of extratracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) being used for lower limb conditions. This research aimed to synthesise evidence for the use of ESWT on children under the age of 18, to form a position statement to guide clinical practice.
Presented on: Friday 23rd June
To date, when clinicians have treated or studied children with ITW, they have generally considered four broad outcome measure domains, namely range of motion percentage of time of toe walking, motor performance and sensory preferences. This workshop will provide you with other domains to consider, treatment options and treatment outcome measures.
Presented on: Friday 23rd June
Dr. Antoni Caserta (PhD) works as a is Paediatric Podiatrist across public, private and academic sectors. Antoni’s private practice focuses on injured young athletes, infant foot conditions, simple and complex gait disorders, chronic pain or disability. Antoni has been Chair of the Paediatric Special Interest Group for the APodA VIC, and has presented numerous times at APodA state conferences, special interest groups and international conferences. He was the 2014 winner of the Jennifer O’Meara Memorial Award for outstanding achievement for a young podiatrist.
Antoni completed his PhD at Monash University, his thesis explored the lower limb characteristics of children with an idiopathic toe walking gait, and how these characteristics are managed. He has published a number of articles on idiopathic toe walking gait , the use of iPhone technology in the clinical setting, podiatry outcome measures, and is currently developing a diagnosis tool for calcaneal and tibial tuberosity apophysitis (Severs disease and Osgood-Schlatter disease). Antoni is currently the project manager in setting up a Commonwealth and Victorian State funded initiative stemming from the Mental Health Royal Commission. The Infant, Child, Family Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs will make seeking support easier for families with children aged 0-11 years experiencing developmental, behavioural, and emotional challenges.
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