The Ultimate Guide to Treating Dizziness, Vertigo, and Vestibular Disorders

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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. Discuss the latest advances in vestibular rehabilitation and their implications for rehab.
2. Demonstrate a comprehensive assessment, identifying and differentiating root causes of dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders.
3. Integrate the most effective interventions available for reducing dizziness, vertigo, and vestibular disorders.
4. Combine multiple approaches for better outcomes, including balance training, vestibular rehabilitation, gaze stabilization, targeted exercises and more.
5. Design effective, innovative plans of care for a wide range of diagnoses.
6. Apply the assessments and interventions discussed in this seminar to a series of interactive case scenarios.

Outline

• How cutting edge research is helping patients cross the finish line

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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