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Level 1 Course for Orthotists / Prosthetists
Nov 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 2025 – Teacher: Garikoitz Aristegui and Iurii Kukelev – gari@bspts.net – elearning@bspts.net
This level lasts 5 days, where theoretical and practical explanations are combined.
Language: The course will be in English with Russian translation simultaneously
Schedule for the course:
From Monday to Friday: 8:00 am – 14:00 pm SPAIN TIME
Specific objectives at Level 1
Train the student to:
- Describe the general principles of the Rigo Concept BSPTS.
- Establish the specific principles to treat scoliosis and other spinal disorders.
- Define the correction strategies needed for each specific case and at each of its treatment positions.
- Develop a treatment plan appropriate for the clinical and radiological aspects specific to the patient.
- Select the brace design depending on each curve pattern.
- Carry out the treatment of the patients based on the treatment and correction principles 3D of Rigo Concept BSPTS bracing appropriately for each curve pattern.
The educational units of Level 1 are the following:
| Contents | |
| EU1: Revision of Basic Level | Revise the basic concepts related to the clinical and radiological assessment and classification of the patient with scoliosis based on the Rigo Concept BSPTS |
| EU2: General Principles | Description of the general principle of BSPTS |
| EU3: Specific Principles | Description of the specific principles of treatment based on the Rigo Concept BSPTS. |
| EU4: Sagittal Alterations | Treatment of the sagittal alterations using Rigo Concept Bracing for each patient. |
| EU5: Scoliosis | Treatment of scoliosis using Rigo Concept Bracing for each patient. |
| EU6: Rigo Concept Bracing | Establish the principles of the Rigo Concept Bracing for the treatment of scoliosis. |
| Assessment of Knowledge |
Practice:
- Clinical cases discussion
- Workshop: x-Ray measurement with digital software
- Workshop: brace to correct structural disorders in the sagittal plane
- Workshop: brace to correct patients with scoliosis.
There will be a written exam at the end of Level 1, and certificate.
To access Level 2 hands-on course it is necessary to pass this Level 1 exam as well as preparing and presenting to the BSPTS-Educational Committee a ‘Case Report’ during the time between Level 1 and Level 2.
Please note: to be able to take part in the course an online pre-requisite course is mandatory! Please follow this link to register for the pre-requisite online course:
https://bspts.net/bspts-courses/
For the Level 1 course: Spaces are limited on the course so book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Level 1 for Orthotists & Prosthetists – Syllabus
| Syllabus | |
| Unit 1 | Presentation and introduction |
| Unit 2 | SOSORT Guideline: PSSE and Bracing evidence
Interdisciplinary team approach: Rigo Concept |
| Unit 3 | Postural assessment. Scheme of blocks frontal and sagittal |
| Unit 4 | Sagittal profile
Clinical and radiological criteria Pelvic parameters. Roussoully type |
| Unit 5 | Spinal disorders: Sagittal alterations
Scheuermann Flat back |
| Unit 6 | 3D spinal disorders: Scoliosis
Definition and Types of scoliosis Adams Test Scoliometer |
| Unit 7 | Rigo Concept Classification
Introduction |
| Unit 8 | Rigo Concept Classification
Clinical assessment Clinical criteria |
| Unit 9 | Rigo Concept Classification
Radiological assessment Radiological criteria |
| Unit 10 | Rigo Concept Classification
x-Ray workshop Skeletal Maturity: Risser and Sanders |
| Unit 11 | Rigo Concept Classification
A, B, C, E Type Clinical, blocks, x-Ray |
| Unit 12 | Rigo Concept principles
Sagittal alterations |
| Unit 13 | Clinical types: Scheuermann and Flat back
Passive elements, corrective pads and brace design |
| Unit 14 | Idiopathic Scoliosis
Natural history, Etiopathology Risk of progression and Torsion phenomenon |
| Unit 15 | Body Terminology |
| Unit 16 | Rigo Concept principles
Scoliosis in general |
| Unit 17 | Rigo Concept principles
A Type Scoliosis and brace design |
| Unit 18 | Rigo Concept principles
B Type Scoliosis and brace design |
| Unit 19 | Rigo Concept principles
C Type Scoliosis and brace design |
| Unit 20 | Rigo Concept principles
E Type Scoliosis and brace design |
| Unit 21 | Clinical Cases and brace design |
| Unit 22 | Closing Assessment of knowledge |
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