Goal and Learning Outcomes
The purpose of our Concussion/mTBI program is to inform healthcare providers about the incidence, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of sports-related concussions and the potential for serious long-term outcomes such as dementia. Completion of this program will enable the healthcare practitioner to:
- Design and Implement a Concussion Treatment Program
- Design and conduct a brain and vestibular rehabilitation program
- Design evidence-based treatment plans
- Utilize a current evidence-based examination process to quantify brain function and human performance
- Define sports-related concussions and the sports in which they are most often found
- Describe the immediate and long-term symptoms of sports-related concussions
- Discuss expert recommendations for preventing/managing sports-related concussions
- Prepare health care professionals with advanced knowledge and skills in diagnosis and treatment of Concussion/mTBI.
What will be covered in this course:
- Basal Ganglia Circuitry Models
- Clinical Understanding of the Basal Ganglia And It’s Motor, Cognitive and Limbic Circuitry
- Clinical Understanding of the Basal Ganglia and Visual Saccades
- Clinical Understanding of the NeoStriatum And Mesencephalic Function
- Clinical Context Specific VOR Adaptation
- Concussion Rehabilitation and Recovery From Static and Dynamic Vestibular Imbalance
- Clinical Utilization Of Ewald’s First and Second Laws
- Clinical Understanding of Peripheral Vestibular Lesions After Head Trauma
- Concussion Rehabilitation and Spatial Tuning Of Labyrinthine Efferent Activity
- Clinical Understanding of the Role of the Vestibular Commissure After Concussion
- Clinical Understanding of the Deep Cerebellar Nuclei In Concussion Rehabilitation
- Clinical Understanding of Central Neuronal Compensatory Responses And Strategies
- Clinical Applications Utilizing Vestibulocerebellar influences on the Vestibular-Ocular reflex
- Utilizing Visual Saccades in Diagnosis and Rehabilitation Of Head Injury
- Clinical Adaptation of Saccades And Cerebellar Function
- Clinical Applications Inhibition And Excitation of Saccades
- Clinical Understanding of the Cerebellar Relationship to Cerebral Cortical Areas
- Clinical Understanding of Frontal Eye Fields, Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Supplementary Motor Areas And the Parietal Lobe Specific To Visual Saccades
- Rehabilitation Strategies Involving Auditory and Visual Motion Signal Processing
- Clinical Applications of Cerebellar Contributions To Cortical Occulomotor Functions
- Clinical Understanding of Fovial And Extra Fovial Vision.
- Rehabilitation Strategies in the Treatment of Concussion Using Compensatory Mechanisms
- Rehabilitation Strategies Utilizing a Hierarchy Of Saccadic Behavior
- Understanding the Functional Characteristics of Saccades After Concussion
- Clinical Understanding of Protective and Anticipatory Saccades
- Rehabilitation Using Memory Guided Saccades
- Rehabilitation Using Antisaccades
- Rehabilitation Using Command Saccades
- Rehabilitation Using Reflexive Saccades
- Rehabilitation Using Express Saccades
- Rehabilitation Using Spontaneous Saccades
- Clinical Quantification Of Saccadic Position, Velocity and Acceleration
- Clinical Utilization of Overlap, Gap, Memory, Antisaccdic and Sequence Tasking Paradigms
- Clinical Relationships between the Velocity, Duration And Accuracy of Saccades
- Rehabilitation Strategies Using Visual Feedback After Concussion
- Clinical Understanding of the Main Sequence Relationships of Saccades
- Rehabilitation with Directed Dynamic Properties of Saccades
- Clinical Understanding of Asymptotic Values Of Saccades
- Clinical Understanding of Power Functions Describing Amplitude and Duration Relationships of Saccades
- Clinical Applications of Eye Acceleration And Jerk Derivatives
- Concussion Rehabilitation To Increase the Velocity Of Saccades
- Clinical Decision-Making Using Saccadic Velocity To Calculate Frontal Low Integrity
- Clinical Understanding of Saccadic Skewness And Wave Forms
- Clinical Calculations of the Q Values of Saccades
- Clinical Examination of Phase – Plane Plots Of Eye Position
- Clinical Comparisons of Vertical and Horizontal Convergence Movements
- Clinical Understanding Of Post-Saccadic Eye Drifts And Pulse Step Phenomenology
- Clinical Understanding of Dynamic Over and under Shoots of Saccades
- Clinical Understanding Of the Planar Direction of Saccades in Rehabilitation of Concussion
- Clinical Phenomenology Differentiating Brainstem and Cortical Mechanisms in Saccadic Generation
- Clinical Understanding of Saccadic Reaction Time, Visual Processing, Target Selection and Motor Programming
- Concussion Rehabilitation Using Gap and Overlaps Stimuli
- Concussion Rehabilitation using Superior Colliculus Phenomenology
- Concussion Rehabilitation Using Antisaccades
- Clinical Quantification of Ratios of Eye-Movement Function
- Clinical Quantification Of Somatic and Visual Error In Rehabilitation Strategy
- Clinical Quantification and Treatment Development of Saccadic Accuracy
- Clinical Quantification of Visual Dysmetria
- Clinical Quantification of Pulse Step Mismatch Dysmetria
- Clinical Understanding and Applications Involving Post Saccadic Conjugate Or Disjunctive Drift
- Rehabilitation Strategies Changing the Size for Luminance Of Targets
- Concussion Rehabilitation Utilizing Memory Guided Saccades
- Concussion Rehabilitation In Light and Dark
- Diagnostic & Therapeutic Importance of Amplitude & Velocity Relationships Of Eye Movements
- Concussion Rehabilitation Strategies Using Sport Simulation
- Clinical Understanding of Stochastic Processes of Compensation in Smooth Pursuit
- Concussion Rehabilitation Using Double Step Target Jumps With Saccades
- Concussion Simulation Utilizing Saccades
- Quantifying the Physical Examination In Treatment Outcomes In Concussion
- Concussion Simulation Utilizing Optokinetic Stimulation
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Changing Saccadic Trajectory
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Changing Saccadic Latency
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Addressing Saccadic Dysmetria
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Addressing Saccadic Vector Abnormalities
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation With in a Hierarchical Organizational Paradigm
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Of Patient Specific Job Tasks
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Utilizing Combinations of Volitional and Reflexive Saccades
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Of Movement Disorders
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Strategies With Self and Directed Pacing
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Specific to Prefrontal Cortical Insults
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Utilizing Head Eye Vestibular Movement Therapy
- Concussion Simulation Rehabilitation Utilizing Blinks and Head Movements
- Clinical Importance of Fatique and Human Function after Head Injury
- Clinical Applications Utilizing Combinations of Vergence Movements and Head Neck Strategy
- Clinical Applications Quantifying Saccade Performance
- Clinical Applications to Engage The TBI Patient In Novel Evidence-Based Therapy
Testimonials:
“As after many Carrick Institute learning experiences I feel like my eyes have been opened. Things that previously have slipped by unnoticed now jump out at me. I was blind but now I see. Sometimes it’s now so apparent it startles me.”
-Dr. Ray Purcell
“Great program super learning and super humbling at the same time should it be any other way.”
Dr. Paul Stefanelli
TBI Module 2 With Professor Carrick On-demand
