On Wednesday the 16th of April, I attended the Far North Queensland Neurological Movement Disorders Symposium with Megan. This event was organised and presented by the Atherton Tableland and the Cairns Dystonia Support Group to raise awareness and support about different neurological movement disorders.
Professional guest speakers including Dr John O'Sullivan, Dr Steven Dommann, Ms Karen O'Maley and Ms Maree Brockie all presented informative speeches about a range of neurological movement disorders, focussing on Dystonia, Parkinson's Disease, Tremor and Multiple Sclerosis.
Gail Rogers a Speech Pathologist, Melanie Mirotsos a Physiotherapist and Kerry Stingel an Occupational Therapist discussed and exemplified how they would respond and work together as a team of local, Cairns health specialists to treat patients with neurological movement disorders.
Maureen Slocum and Sue Bayliss ended the evening by providing a pesonal insight into what it's like living with Spasmodic Dysphonia. This was a great learning experience for me as I had not heard much about the different forms of Dystonia and the affects it has on individuals. In their stories Maureen and Sue discussed how people will often avoid them or make excuses that they have to go somewhere because they find it difficult to understand what they are saying due to their Spasmodic Dysphonia. This made me conscious of how important it is to educate and raise societal awareness about neurological movement disorders.
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