Vestibular Rehab: A Case Study Approach to Vestibular Rehab

Target Audience: PT, PTA, OT, COTA

Contact Hours: 8.0

Course has been approved/renewed for 8 contact hours through the MN Board of PT through December 31, 2024

approval # 9780

OT/OTA: You will receive a certificate of course completion with total CE contact hours. M HEALTH Fairview is no longer an approved provider through AOTA and has never been for distance learning. You may still submit the hours towards your licensure and receive a certificate of completion with all information provided to submit.  For additional information about CE requirements for license, please see MN Statute 148.6443: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/148.6443MN statutes 143.6443, subdivision SUBD.2 “Standards for determining the qualified education activities” will continue to be utilized in determining appropriate OT related CE courses.

(Submitting credits through the organizations does not guarantee approved credits or the full credits. All participants will receive a certificate of completion which you may be able to use towards your professional license).

All disciplines will receive a certificate of course completion

Course speaker: Barb Young PT, DPT ,NCS  has been a practicing physical therapist for over 25 years. She has been treating vestibular, neurological and balance patients in an output clinic setting for the past 20 years at Fairview/M Health. She is a Board Certified Neurological Clinical Specialist (2007 and re-certified in 2017) and has received basic/advanced Certificates of Competency in Vestibular Rehab from Emory University in Atlanta (2001 and 2003). She is an active member of the APTA neurology section, vestibular special interest group. She works directly at the University of MN ENT clinic with audiologists, neurologists and neuro-otologists on complex vestibular cases.

Course description: 

This class is about improving a clinician’s knowledge base of Vestibular Rehab. I want you to be able to
treat people with vestibular disorders, to make informed/educated clinical decisions about a case and to
improve the quality of pt care for dizzy and off balance patients. The goal is to develop clinical decision
making skills to support your therapy diagnosis and give you the tools to treat basic/intermediate
vestibular disorders. Case studies with videos of real patients will be included. It is assumed the
attending clinician will have basic familiarity with vestibular anatomy/physiology, vestibular disorders

Objectives:

• Describe the Anatomy and Physiology of the Vestibular system to a patient
• Perform/demonstrate positional testing for BPPV and basic canalith repositioning techniques for
BPPV (PSCC/HSCC)
• Perform/Identify assessment techniques to identify unilateral vestibular loss, central vestibular
disorders and balance disorders
• Discriminate between various vestibular diagnosis (pathophysiology) and hypothesize a
vestibular diagnosis
• Determine differential diagnosis based on the history and clinical findings.
• Describe how to progress basic vestibular exercise program/treatment plan.
• Determine the basic results of vestibular function tests

Agenda:

  • Vestibular anatomy/physiology and BPPV
  • More on BPPV
  • Vestibular diagnosis
  • Vestibular evaluation
  • Vestibular treatment
  • Vestibular function testing

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