Full Course Description
The Peripheral & Central Vestibular Systems
Colleen Sleik PT, DPT, OCS, NCS, began her journey into the specialized care of vestibular rehabilitation patients after evaluating a patient that she felt ill equipped to help. She needed to know more. Recognizing and treating BPPV itself is quite straightforward. However, the care becomes much more complex for patients that are experiencing something that was initially thought to be BPPV or for those who have multiple conditions impacting their overall presentation. Advanced learning is required to understand how the systems function as a whole. This course was developed with these challenging patients in mind.
The course begins with assessment and treatment techniques for BPPV, including a lab component to practice technique, hand positioning, and patient-specific modifications. You will become skilled to better recognize BPPV and subsequently recognize the presentations that do not fit the BPPV pattern. Further assessment and treatment of the non-BPPV diagnoses will also be addressed through functional assessments and treatment progressions.
You will walk out with a deeper understanding of assessment, treatment techniques, patient-specific modifications, and differential diagnosis skills for the dizzy patient. Take your skills to a new level when you can pinpoint the areas where therapy can intervene to promote the desired functional gains for patients and the strategies to appropriately progress patients through each of those areas.
Program Information
Objectives
- Distinguish key subjective reports to further enhance evaluation and differential diagnosis skills.
- Perform assessment techniques for vestibular patients with proper technique.
- Choose proper positioning modifications for patients with mobility limitations or physical space restrictions.
- Identify appropriate functional outcome measures based on patient’s condition and therapist’s work environment.
- Analyze findings of a vestibular assessment to determine a therapy diagnosis.
- Evaluate key findings that assist in differential diagnosis of central, peripheral and cervicogenic dizziness.
- Explain exam findings indicating the presence of multiple diagnoses to include multiple canal, multiple peripheral conditions, mixed central and peripheral conditions.
- Formulate a plan of care based on findings from assessments to improve functional outcomes.
- Select proper treatment techniques from evidence-based guidelines for vestibular rehabilitation.
- Plan appropriate treatment progression for BPPV, peripheral vertigo, central vertigo, cervicogenic dizziness and post-concussion syndrome.
- Assess prognosis based on accurate diagnostic procedures.
- Recognize factors that may contribute to plateau in progress.
- Develop appropriate goals for patients with consideration of complete medical history and presenting factors that may modify rehab outcomes.
Outline
DIFFERENTIATE SPECIFIC CANAL INVOLVEMENT FOR BPPV AND MULTIPLE CANAL BPPV
- Determine the involved canal based on assessment findings
- Evaluate findings that indicate multiple canal involvement
- Choose appropriate modifications to positioning as required based on patient mobility
EVALUATION OF FINDINGS FOR CENTRAL, PERIPHERAL, AND CERVICOGENIC DIZZINESS
- Analyze various assessment techniques and findings specific to central vertigo
- Recognize key subjective clues and objective findings indicating cervicogenic dizziness
- Differentiate BPPV from other peripheral diagnoses
BPPV TREATMENT OF ONE OR MULTIPLE CANALS
- Where to start, how to proceed and components to consider if treatment is not progressing as expected
- Patient education tips to improve compliance with treatment and home exercise programs
- Recognize factors that may affect success of canalith repositioning maneuvers and techniques to improve effectiveness
WHAT IF IT’S NOT BPPV: IDENTIFY THE 4 AREAS OF TREATMENT FOR ALL VESTIBULAR PATIENTS
- Differentiate additional treatment requirements for patients with central diagnoses, cervicogenic dizziness and post-concussion syndrome
- Identify factors affecting progression
- Learn how to overcome barriers to success with vestibular rehabilitation
EVIDENCE-BASED FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR VESTIBULAR PATIENTS
- Choose evidence-based functional assessment measures from Vestibular EDGE/Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy recommendations
- Select functional measures that will direct each of the 4 areas of treatment for vestibular rehabilitation
COURSE LABS
- Gain confidence through practice: Learn how to incorporate new assessment and treatment techniques
- Apply clinical decision-making to actual patient case studiesa
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Audiologists
- Athletic Trainers
- Physicians
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03/06/2019
Evidence-Based Assessment & Treatment Techniques
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03/06/2019
Applying Clinical Decision-Making to Actual Patient Case Studies
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03/06/2019
Differentiating Additional Treatment Requirements for Patients with Central Diagnoses, Cervicogenic Dizziness and Post-Concussion Syndrome
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03/06/2019
Evidence-Based Functional Assessment Tools for Vestibular Patients
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03/06/2019
Designing a Comprehensive Treatment Program: Gaze Stabilization, Habituation, Gait and Balance, & Walking for Endurance
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03/06/2019
Advanced Care for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
Whether you want to treat the root cause of dizziness faster, enhance your clinic’s services for vestibular patients, or add personal value within a large organization, this program will get you where you want to go.
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Watch Dr. Jamie Miner as she shares a proven framework for rehabilitation that combines today’s best practices with over 25 years of experience helping patients overcome vestibular disorders in hospitals, rehab centers, home health settings, SNFs, and outpatient facilities..
If you’re chasing symptoms without getting to the “why” of your patient’s impairment, you’re losing time, money and referrals.
This recording is your path to delivering results for your patients.
Program Information
Objectives
- Discuss the latest advances in vestibular rehabilitation and their implications for rehab.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive assessment, identifying and differentiating root causes of dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders.
- Integrate the most effective interventions available for reducing dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders.
- Combine multiple approaches for better outcomes, including balance training, vestibular rehabilitation, gaze stabilization, targeted exercises and more.
- Design effective, innovative plans of care for a wide range of diagnoses.
- Apply the assessments and interventions discussed in this seminar to a series of interactive case scenarios.
Outline
HOT TOPICS AND INNOVATIONS
- How cutting edge research is helping patients cross the finish line
HANDS-ON LAB: UPGRADE YOUR ASSESSMENT AND CLINICAL REASONING SKILLS
- Get to the root causes of impairments faster with today’s best tests and evaluations for:
- Dizziness
- Neck 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
- Practice effective techniques you can use immediately to:
- End years of vertigo and dizziness in as little as one session
- Significantly improve functional mobility
- Manage concussion 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
- 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 specific impairments, including:
- Cervicogenic dizziness
- Concussion
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Vestibular hypofunction
- Vestibular neuronitis
- Vestibular migraine
- Labyrinthitis
- Meniere’s disease
- Endolymphatic hydrops
- Acoustic neuroma
CASE STUDIES: PUT KNOWLEDGE TO PRACTICE
- Case study 1: Conduct a comprehensive assessment and differentially diagnose the correct impairment
- Case study 2: Problem solve a complex case of cervicogenic dizziness and develop an effective treatment plan
- Case study 3: Navigate pharmacological side effects and comorbidities
- Case study 4: Measure patient outcomes using Dynamic Gait Index, Functional Gait Assessment, and other tools
- Case study 5: Overcome barriers to effective strategy implementation
DON’T LEVE MONEY ON THE TABLE!
- Coding and billing updates
- Justify therapy 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
- Therapy Directors
- Physician Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
- Nurses
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10/08/2019
Evaluation and Treatment of Common Vestibular Disorders
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10/08/2019
Achieving the Best Outcomes in Vestibular Rehab
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10/08/2019
BPPV: Accurately Identify the Cause to Construct the Best Treatment Plan
Learn various maneuvers to treat BPPV, as well as the efficacy of each maneuver. You’ll be able to distinguish the different presentations of anterior canal BPPV and confidently determine the involved canal in horizontal BPPV. Take away advanced assessment techniques to identify the difference between BPPV and central disorders mimicking BPPV.
Program Information
Objectives
- Choose the best treatment technique to treat BPPV of the posterior, anterior, and horizontal canals.
- Analyze the efficacy of each treatment technique to achieve the best outcomes.
- Distinguish the latest surgical treatment options for intractable BPPV.
Outline
Choose the Best Treatment for BPPV
- Distinguishing presentations of anterior canal BPPV
- Determine the involved canal in horizontal BPPV
Advanced Assessment Techniques
- Review of standard technique
- Presentation of alternate techniques
- Efficacy of each maneuver
Latest Surgical Treatment Options
- Current techniques
- How to distinguish treatment options for intractable BPPV
- Case study
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Athletic Trainers
- Exercise Physiologist
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07/31/2020
Vestibular Disorders in an Aging Population: Treatment Modification & Considerations
Advance your skills and better understand how aging affects the vestibular system so your treatment plans can address this problem, including sensory reweighting. You’ll be able to recognize BPPV in the geriatric population and learn new modification options.
Program Information
Objectives
- Plan for a vestibular rehab program for patients with cognitive declines.
- Analyze advanced concepts regarding changes to the vestibular system, otoconia and symptoms related to aging.
- Manage treatment programs for elder patients, with strategies for modifications.
Outline
Vestibular Rehab for Patients with Cognitive Declines
- Modify treatment to meet the needs of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease
- Instructions for motion sensitivity
- Inclusion of caregivers
Understanding Changes to the Vestibular System
- Otoconia and symptoms related to aging
- Changes in symptoms and presentation
Modify Treatment Programs for Elder Patients
- Changes in intensity
- Relationship to falls
- How to address falls risk with specific balance training
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Athletic Trainers
- Exercise Physiologist
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07/31/2020