3-Day: Vestibular Rehabilitation Intensive Training Course

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Jamie Miner, PT, DPT, GCS Related seminars and products

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Jamie Miner, PT, DPT, GCS, provides specialized services to many skilled nursing facilities and earned geriatric clinical specialist designation through the American Physical Therapy Association. She has experience in home health, acute care, outpatient vestibular rehab and fall prevention, acute rehab, sub-acute rehab, and long-term care. Additionally, she serves as a clinical instructor to many doctoral physical therapy students. Jamie graduated with a BS degree in PT from UNC Chapel Hill, a DPT from Shenandoah University in March 2003.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jamie Miner has employment relationships with Gallowayridge Rehabilitation and Sunnybrook Skilled Nursing Facility. She receives a consulting fee, speaking honorarium, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jamie Miner is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the Neurology Section and Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy, and the Vestibular Disorders Association. She serves on the North Carolina Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.

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Objectives

1. Evaluate the latest advances in vestibular rehabilitation and their implications for rehab.
2. Analyze the anatomy and physiology of the vestibular system.
3. Examine signs and symptoms of vestibular dysfunction.
4. Demonstrate screens and tests commonly used to evaluate motion sensitivity in vestibular patients for improved patient outcomes.
5. Develop a comprehensive framework for evaluation.
6. Interpret evaluation findings appropriately.
7. Differentiate root causes of dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders.
8. Determine appropriate candidates for vestibular rehabilitation.
9. Demonstrate maneuvers, rolls, thrusts, gaze stabilization exercises, and other vestibular rehabilitation techniques.
10. Explain clinical rationale for applying each technique.
11. Describe indications and contraindications for vestibular rehabilitation techniques.
12. Combine multiple approaches for better outcomes, including balance training, vestibular rehabilitation, gaze stabilization, targeted exercises and more.
13. Integrate therapy protocols for reducing dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders.
14. Design comprehensive plans of care for a wide range of vestibular diagnoses.
15. Formulate strategies for addressing related symptoms, including migraines, neck pain, nausea and anxiety.
16. Apply the assessments and interventions discussed in this seminar to a series of interactive case scenarios.
17. Justify therapy with applicable progress measures.
18. 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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