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Spasticity Clinic   at
Foothills Medical Centre
Specialty: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Connect Care Department: CGY FMC SPASTICITY CL
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 3 months
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Assessment and treatment for patients who have a primary concern of spasticity.This is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialist service that provides assessment and treatment for people who cannot relax their limbs because of involuntary muscle tightness or spasms.
Provides treatment for complex patients with spasticity, a muscle tightness that may result from a number of neurological conditions which may include stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, etc.

Treatment may include:
  • oral medication
  • botulinum toxin injections
  • intrathecal baclofen
Assessment and treatment for patients who have a primary concern of spasticity.This is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialist service that provides assessment and treatment for people who cannot relax their limbs because of involuntary muscle tightness or spasms.
Provides treatment for complex patients with spasticity, a muscle tightness that may result from a number of neurological conditions which may include stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, etc.

Treatment may include:
  • oral medication
  • botulinum toxin injections
  • intrathecal baclofen
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Adults aged 18 an over.
Have Spasticity - muscle tightness (that may result from a number of neurological conditions, i.e. stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy etc.).
Adults aged 18 an over.
Have Spasticity - muscle tightness (that may result from a number of neurological conditions, i.e. stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy etc.).
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Non-Connect Care users: Physician only letter referrals are accepted
All referrals are receive via fax, then triaged by the physician.

Connect Care users: Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, type CGY FMC SPASTICITY CL in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Non-Connect Care users: Physician only letter referrals are accepted
All referrals are receive via fax, then triaged by the physician.

Connect Care users: Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, type CGY FMC SPASTICITY CL in the “To Department” section and complete order.
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
If your patient needs to be seen more urgently in Spasticity Clinic, please outline this in your referral letter or call our office.
If your patient needs to be seen more urgently in Spasticity Clinic, please outline this in your referral letter or call our office.
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
For all emergencies, refer directly to Emergency Department.  Acute injuries with concerns regarding neurologic status should be directed to the Emergency Department, Neurology, or Neurosurgery.
For all emergencies, refer directly to Emergency Department.  Acute injuries with concerns regarding neurologic status should be directed to the Emergency Department, Neurology, or Neurosurgery.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Typically these patients should be followed by a neurologist or a neuro rehabilitation specialist for their primary diagnosis.  If they are already being seen in physiatry, they can follow up with their physiatrist regarding spasticity management.
Typically these patients should be followed by a neurologist or a neuro rehabilitation specialist for their primary diagnosis.  If they are already being seen in physiatry, they can follow up with their physiatrist regarding spasticity management.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 7 days.
  • Acceptance via appointment details or wait list status letter to referring source and patient within 14 days.
  • Wait list status update every 90 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 30 days.
 
PHONE
403-944-4224
FAX
403-283-2526
REFERRAL PHONE
403-944-4224
REFERRAL FAX
403-283-2526
REFERRAL FORM
CLICK + TO VIEW REFERRAL GUIDELINES
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Routine Reason for Referral
Access Targets convey the clinically appropriate timeframe patients should be seen within, by reason for referral and priority level.
Access Target
Required Information/Investigations
Investigation Timing
Additional Details
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Spasticity
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
History of presenting illness,the major concern related to spasticity
 
Current
Date of Injury
 
Current or Previous
Past medical history and relevant co-morbidities
 
Current or Previous
Related CT/MRI/Imaging results
 
If available
All related / relevant discharge summaries
 
If available
Therapist or specialist consultant assessments
 
If available
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Email
Print
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 48 hours in advance to re-schedule.
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 48 hours in advance to re-schedule.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
Special Services Building - Room AW 122
1403 29 Street NW
Calgary Alberta
T2N 2T9
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in at reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time.
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
  • Please make sure to have someone with you if you are unable to communicate in English.
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in at reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time.
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
  • Please make sure to have someone with you if you are unable to communicate in English.
 
DIRECTIONS
Foothills Medical Centre is located at the intersection of 16 Avenue NW and 29 Street NW.

Transit:
Public transportation is available to this facility.
Foothills Medical Centre is located at the intersection of 16 Avenue NW and 29 Street NW.

Transit:
Public transportation is available to this facility.
 
PHONE
403-944-4224
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS

Due to ongoing construction at the Foothills Medical Centre please allow for additional time for parking and making your way to your appointment.

Due to ongoing construction at the Foothills Medical Centre please allow for additional time for parking and making your way to your appointment.

 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
As needed.
As needed.
 
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

The primary purpose of the All Locations list is to let the user easily access any location of a healthcare service without going back to the main search screen.

The locations listed have 3 background colors:
  • Green means the healthcare service@location has referral information attached to it.
  • Brown means the healthcare service@location never had referral information attached to it, or it has unpublished referral information.
  • Red means
    • IA changed the healthcare service@location's status to something other than Current
    • It was deleted if it is an ARD healthcare service@location.
Green  and Brown are always at the top of the list. These are the Healthcare Service@Locations with the status of Current.
The Red list at the bottom consists of non-current Healthcare Service@locations that once had Published referral information in the ARD.
If the referral information was never published in ARD the Healthcare Service@location will not show in the Red list.

The secondary purpose of the All Locations list is to allow ARD Administrators to recover (copy) referral information from the non-current Healthcare Service@Locations to ones that are current.

Common Scenario:
A Healthcare Service moves from one location to another. In this case the IA Healthcare Service@Location record will be made defunct (non-current) and a new Healthcare Service@Location record will be created with a current status. In this scenario the captured referral guidelines in ARD can become "orphaned" as they are not attached to any current IA healthcare service.

Categories of non-current or orphaned referral guidelines: INDIVIDUAL and COMMON.
The REFERRAL GUIDELINES section of the profile has the prefix INDIVIDUAL or COMMON to help you choose the method below when transferring referral guidelines from a non-current Healthcare Service@Location to a current healthcare service@location.

Individual referral process
  1. Click on a non-current (Red) Healthcare Service@Location at the bottom of the All Locations list.
  2. The non-current referral info is displayed with the link Copy this Referral Process to another Healthcare Service@Location link on the upper right hand corner. Click on the copy link.
  3. Choose a current location (Green or Brown) from the All Locations list. This will be the Healthcare Service@Location you are pasting the referral info into.
  4. The system will display the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the referral info from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location you viewed in the first step.
  5. Click Save and the referral info is transferred from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location to the current one.
  6. Repeat these steps for each Healthcare Service@Location that needs attention.

Common referral process - 2 sub cases.
Case 1: At least 1 current Healthcare Service@Location with common referral info is with current status for this healthcare service; One or more Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations where replaced by new one.
  1. Click on any current Healthcare Service@Location whether it has referral info (Green) or not (Brown).
  2. The healthcare service location opens in the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the current common referral info.
  3. Save it. 
  4. All locations will be updated with the common referral information, including all the locations that don't have referral info yet (Brown). The non-current referrals (Red) will also be updated.
Case 2:  All Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations for a healthcare service are set to a non-current status and replaced by new ones. In this case there is no current additional referral info to copy from, so the only alternative is to pick up the non-current common referral process (Red). Follow the steps described in the section Individual Referral Process above to copy/paste the non-current common referral info to the current healthcare service locations.
Generally we want to replicate current common referral info to new or replaced healthcare service locations. We only resort to copying non-current common referral info if there is no other option.

Remember: Some fields can be location specific with the common referral process:
Parking Instructions, Directions, Parking Map, Wait Time, Referral Phone or Referral Fax.
To update these items you have to edit each Healthcare Service@Location separately.

ADDITONAL NOTES:
  • The info icon after the All Locations drop down will be visible to ARD Administrators.
  • The system doesn't allow you to copy referral information from one non-current Healthcare Service@Location to another.

 

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