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(608) 263-3301

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Spasticity & Movement Disorders Clinic

Welcome

The Waisman Center Clinics provide comprehensive clinical care and support for children with disabilities and their families. The Waisman Center Spasticity and Movement Disorders Clinic is a partnership with UW Health and the American Family Children's Hospital. An interdisciplinary team of professionals work together to address the needs of children and young adults with neurological disorders causing abnormalities of muscle tone. Children and their families receive a comprehensive evaluation by the interdisciplinary staff including: nursing, neurosurgeon, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and a rehabilitation medicine physician.

Your Clinic Visit

To schedule an appointment, call the Waisman Center Clinics at (608) 263-3301.
Please indicate that you would like to arrange for an appointment in the
Spasticity and Movement Disorders Clinic.

♦	Prior to your appointment, a packet of materials will be sent to you including directions to the Waisman Center and a parking permit.
♦	Our clinic is located on the first floor of the Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Avenue. When you arrive for your appointment, please check in at the clinic reception desk.
♦	A medical assistant will check in your child. After obtaining your child's height, weight, pulse and blood pressure, you and your child will be taken to an examination room.
♦	Each evaluation will involve individual assessments by all members of the treatment team.
♦	Team members will collaborate and communicate recommendations at the end of the clinic visit.
	NOTE:	Full visit information will be shared in writing with you and your child's primary health care provider, subspecialists, and others as indicated by signed release of information forms.

Goals of the Clinic Team

♦	Individualized and comprehensive plans for the management of spasticity and other movement disorders.Treatments may include oral medications, botox injections, orthopedic operations, or neurosurgical procedures, including intrathecal baclofen, deep brain stimulation, and other procedures.
♦	Coordination of long term follow-up around interventions for tone management.

Clinic Staff


Michael Ward, MD Rehabilitation Medicine	Taryn Bragg, MD Neurosurgery	Marcella Andrews, PT Physical Therapy


Deb Mcleish, MD Rehabilitation Medicine	Emily Meyer, NP	Susan Hubanks, NP


Traci Bates, RN Clinic Coordinator	Mary Locast, OTR Occupational Therapy

Parking & Directions

PARKING: All visitors should park in stalls outlined in blue and hang a visitor's permit from rear view mirror (prior to your visit, please make arrangements with staff for a permit). After 4:30 p.m. or on the weekends, a parking permit is not required except for handicapped stalls.
ENTRANCE: Enter building in north tower at main clinics/lobby doors. Turn right and walk through lobby to clinics registration desk.
DIRECTIONS: Click on map thumbnail to view larger image. From the east—follow University Avenue through campus and then go off to the right on Campus Drive; stay in the right lane and turn right at the University Bay Drive/Farley Avenue intersection. From the west—follow University Avenue and turn left at the University Bay Drive/Farley Avenue intersection. After making the turn (from either direction)... Continue straight over the hill; the road at that point becomes Highland Avenue. The Waisman Center is at the bottom of the hill on the left, across the street from UW-Children's Hospital.