Target audience
Physiatrists, Pediatric orthopedic surgeons, Prosthetists and Orthotists, Allied health professionals working with a rehabilitation population, Administrators in health care
Relevance for the ISPO World Congress
This instructional course promotes standardized, patient-centered assessment outcomes in children with lower limb differences worldwide. Accurate evaluation is essential to ensure equitable access to optimal rehabilitation, appropriate prosthetic care, and participation. The course introduces Children’s Amputee Mobility Predictor (CAMP) and LIMB-Q Kids, capturing childrens functional performance and lived experience. Together, these measures facilitate evidence-based clinical decision-making, global uniformity of outcome comparisons, and improved quality of care for children across diverse cultural and healthcare settings.
Learning objectives
a. Identify the unique aspects that require specialized tools to assess children’s and adolescent’s performance and mindset.
b. Discuss cases illustrating the assessments’ administration, scores and influence on short- and long-term clinical goals and implementation.
Learning activities
Participants will engage in a combination of didactic presentations, interactive discussion, and case-based learning. The course will begin with a critical review of current approaches to evaluating children and adolescents with lower limb differences, highlighting existing gaps in assessment. Participants will then be introduced to two complementary outcome measures: a performance-based assessment of functional mobility (CAMP), and a Patient-reported outcome measure (LIMB-Q Kids) which captures the child’s perspective on function, well-being, and device use. The session will conclude with clinical case examples and active audience participation to apply concepts and interpret assessment findings.
Audience interaction
The audience will participate via frontal lectures, presentation of case studies, and interactive discussions.
