Vestibular Rehabilitation Course: Assessment and Treatment for Occupational Therapy Practitioners

*** is September 13th, 2019***REGISTRATION DEADLINE

This course covers vestibular rehabilitation principles for treating patients with dizziness, vertigo, coordination, balance, motor, postural, vestibular, visual motor, perceptual, sensory organization and motion disorders due to disease, toxicity, infection, vestibular, tumors, trauma, CNS, and congenital disorders. This course is designed to offer the rehabilitation clinician an additional frame of reference for treatment that can positively affect motor skills, balance, posture, perceptual skills, tolerances of motion, and eliminate vertigo.

Vestibular interventions appear simplistic but the clinician must develop an understanding of the complexities of the system to have successful treatment outcomes.  This course will emphasize the importance of clinical assessments for developing functional goals and treatments as a series of exercises for the clinician to select, grade and develop on a continuum. 

The course will describe recognition of vestibular disorders by symptoms and manifestations, and provide an overview of vestibular anatomy/physiology that is the…