Full Course Description
3-Day: Vestibular Rehabilitation Intensive Training Course
Dizziness, tinnitus, gait disturbances, sleeplessness, double vision…
This vast range of symptoms makes vestibular rehab complex. And getting treatments wrong can severely delay your outcomes, leaving even the most seasoned clinician frustrated, intimidated, and apprehensive to take on new vestibular cases.
But when patients show up at your clinic looking for answers, it’s disappointing to always need to refer them to other providers.
That’s why we partnered with Jamie Miner, PT, DP, GCS, a leading expert in vestibular dysfunction, to bring you an intensive training with everything you need to know about treating this patient population.
In this intensive training, Jamie shares powerful new techniques you can use – no matter your discipline – to navigate the essential elements of vestibular rehab.
You’ll walk away with an adaptable, sure-fire approach to help these patients – without spending thousands of dollars on countless education courses.
You’ll discover:
- A step-by-step comprehensive assessment and screening process to lead you to the right diagnosis
- How to identify red flags most clinicians miss and rule out competing symptoms
- Actionable, easy-to-apply treatment strategies for the most complex hypo/ hyperfunctions of vestibular dysfunction
Sign up today and unlock the skills you need to immediately transition your treatment interventions and stand by your clinical decisions.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the latest advances in vestibular rehabilitation and their implications for rehab.
- Analyze the anatomy and physiology of the vestibular system.
- Examine signs and symptoms of vestibular dysfunction.
- Demonstrate screens and tests commonly used to evaluate motion sensitivity in vestibular patients for improved patient outcomes.
- Develop a comprehensive framework for evaluation.
- Interpret evaluation findings appropriately.
- Differentiate root causes of dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders.
- Determine appropriate candidates for vestibular rehabilitation.
- Demonstrate maneuvers, rolls, thrusts, gaze stabilization exercises, and other vestibular rehabilitation techniques.
- Explain clinical rationale for applying each technique.
- Describe indications and contraindications for vestibular rehabilitation techniques.
- Combine multiple approaches for better outcomes, including balance training, vestibular rehabilitation, gaze stabilization, targeted exercises and more.
- Integrate therapy protocols for reducing dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders.
- Design comprehensive plans of care for a wide range of vestibular diagnoses.
- Formulate strategies for addressing related symptoms, including migraines, neck pain, nausea and anxiety.
- Apply the assessments and interventions discussed in this seminar to a series of interactive case scenarios.
- Justify therapy with applicable progress measures.
- Illustrate appropriate coding, billing, and documentation for vestibular disorders.
Outline
Hot Topics and Innovations in Treatment of Dizziness, Vertigo, and Vestibular Disorders
- How your patients can benefit from cutting edge research
HANDS-ON LAB: Upgrade Your Assessment and Clinical Reasoning Skills
- Get to the root cause of impairments faster with today’s best tests and evaluations for:
- Dizziness
- Pain
- Lightheadedness
- Sleeplessness
- Gait disturbances
- Visual hallucinations
- Drop attacks
- Double vision
- Oscillopsia
- Tinnitus
- Motion sensitivity
- Gaze stability
- Balance
HANDS-ON LAB: Revolutionize Your Rehab Toolbox for Dizziness, Vertigo, And Vestibular Disorders
- Practice effective techniques you can use immediately to:
- End years of vertigo and dizziness in as little as one session
- Significantly improve functional mobility and stability
- Manage concussion symptoms more effectively
- Return athletes to sport faster
- Prevent falls
- Improve balance and gait
- Restore gaze stability and focus
- Reduce migraines, neck pain, nausea, anxiety, and other related symptoms
HANDS-ON LAB: Combine Techniques More Effectively for Better Outcomes
- Practice integrating:
- Epley maneuver and variations
- Head thrust technique
- Brandt-Daroff exercises
- Roll technique
- BBQ roll
- Liberatory maneuver
- Ocular motor assessment
- Vestibular ocular reflex/gaze stabilization treatments
- Saccade exercises
- Optokinetic treatments
- Subjective visual vertical assessment
- Progressive advancement of visual motion
- Treatment for exertional intolerance
- Smooth pursuit neck torsion test
- Joint mobility for cervicogenic dizziness
HANDS-ON LAB: Design Advanced, Innovative Plans of Care for Your Patients
- Practice developing comprehensive treatment strategies for common impairments, including:
- Cervicogenic dizziness
- Concussion
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Vestibular hypofunction
- Vestibular neuronitis
- Vestibular migraine
- Labyrinthitis
- Meniere’s disease
- Acoustic neuroma
CASE STUDIES: Put Knowledge to Practice
- Case study 1: Correctly identify the root cause of impairment
- Case study 2: Differentiate cervicogenic dizziness, BPPV and vestibular hypofunction
- Case study 3: Problem solve a complex case of vestibular hypofunction
- Case study 4: Develop an effective treatment plan for Meniere’s
- Case study 5: Navigate pharmacological side effects and comorbidities
- Case study 6: Accurately measure patient outcomes
- Case study 7: Overcome barriers to strategy implementation
Maximize Your Reimbursement
- Coding and billing updates
- Justify rehab with the right progress measures
- Avoid denials and audits with these tips
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Audiologists
- Athletic Trainers
- Physicians
- Chiropractors
Copyright :
06/12/2023
Falls: Let's Prepare For What We Can't Prevent
The numbers are staggering - hundreds of billions of dollars in medical costs every year are tied to falls. It’s more important than ever to be prepared for falls and work toward fall prevention. Dive into what the difference is and several practical ways to prevent falls in older adults. In this session, you'll learn clinical strategies you can implement tomorrow to improve outcomes as they relate to high fall-risk patients.
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine best practices for prepping for falls and preventing falls.
- Utilize a comprehensive assessment to better determine which patients are at risk for falling.
- Construct an exercise program for older adults to enhance lower extremity and core strength, improve balance and reduce fall risk.
Outline
- Fall Risk & Burden on Healthcare System
- Prevalence and incidence rates, especially among older adults
- Fall Risk Screening Tools
- Outcome measures, current literature review
- Strategies to Reduce Falls in Older Adults
- Proper lighting
- Home modification
- Strength
- Balance
- Footwear
- Medication review
- Preparedness: Clinical Strategies to Reduce Falls
- Improving power (strength and speed)
- Improving balance systems as well as reactive posture and control
- Group/individual resources
- Government, publicly funded and private resources for clinicians, patients and caregivers
Target Audience
- Athletic Trainers
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
Copyright :
03/31/2023
Visual Rehab after a Neurological Event: What Every Therapist Needs to Know
When working with clients after a neurologic event, therapists immediately recognize physical deficits and began to create a list of functional impairments. How often does this include an assessment of vision or consideration of the contributions of visual impairment to functional limitations? You will get a clear foundation for how to assess vision and recognize visual field loss vs visual inattention and how this impacts movement, balance and ADLs. You will learn effective techniques to conduct a vision screening after a stroke or brain injury and how to implement treatment strategies into your plan of care for improved outcomes.
Program Information
Objectives
- Differentiate visual attention, field loss, and hemispatial inattention (neglect).
- Develop effective techniques for assessing field loss and visual spatial inattention.
- Investigate current best practices for neurological vision rehabilitation.
- Develop an understanding of vision-based rehabilitation and the rehabilitation process.
Outline
- Visual Rehab Following A Neurological Event
- Anatomy and review of visual pathway
- Pathology
- Sequence of action
- Relationship of eye/brain anatomy to perception/processing
- Best practices for Assessment
- Screening methods
- Visual field loss
- Visual inattention
- Best Practices for Treatment
- Visual field loss
- Visual inattention
- Documentation
- Objective data to incorporate
- Demonstrating improvement
- Justification for continued treatment/Medicare
- Case Studies and Conclusion
- Visual field loss
- Visual inattention
- Red flags
- When should you refer?
Target Audience
- Chiropractors
- Nurses
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Speech Language Pathologists
- Other Rehab Health Professionals
Copyright :
12/05/2022
Concussion Management Throughout the Lifespan
In this session, practitioners should be ready to view the evidence in concussion evaluation and management. Therapists should be ready to challenge their assumptions about concussion, specifically as related to prevention, acute management, subtyping, and return to life (sport, driving, school, work).
Clinicians should be prepared to analyze the evidence in concussion regarding the stages of recovery and progression, again with consideration for lifespan differences. Finally, those in attendance should feel empowered by this course to inform their concussion-subtype use of therapeutic exercise, intensity, errors, dual task overload, habituation, and pressure training.
This course will go WELL beyond a review of evidence in all three of these conditions. Attendees should expect that Dr. Studer will translate the evidence through video and case examples, for optimal application in the clinic.
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze the evidence in concussion, with specific consideration for subtyping/phenotyping as an outcome in examination.
- Analyze the evidence and interventions in concussion, with specific consideration for the age-specific changes across the lifespan.
- Analyze the evidence and interventions in concussion, with specific consideration for the principles of neuroplasticity.
Outline
Introduction, course objectives, timeline, disclosures
Phenotyping in Concussion: The importance and applications of condition-specific treatment
- COACH CV acronym for phenotyping
- Cognitive Function
- Oculomotor Manifestations
- Affective Disturbances
- Cervical
- Headaches
- Cardiovascular
- Vestibular
- Phenotyping and impact on rehab/functional recovery
Lifespan Considerations in Concussion Management: Exertion, errors, and energy
- In this section, we will address the age-specific differences in concussion management from pediatrics through geriatrics with consideration for exertion, errors (task difficulty), and energy resources.
Persistent Post-Concussion Syndrome Management
- In this section, we will address the sequelae of PPCS, with specific consideration for the predisposing factors, preventative measures, and the evidence in management once the condition is persistent.
Question and answer session
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Physician Assistants
Copyright :
07/10/2023