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:
- Clinical Examination of Fixation of Smooth Pursuit
- Clinical Examination Utilizing the Ophthalmoscope
- Clinical Examination of Patient Tracking Targets
- Clinical Examination of Predictive Strategy And Low Pursuit Gain
- Clinical Examination of Predictive Strategy And High Pursuit Gain
- Clinical Examination and Quantification Of Directional Asymmetries of Visual Pursuit
- Clinical Examination Using Special Techniques For the Clinical Evaluation of Pursuit
- Clinical Examination Using Optokinetic Stimulation
- Clinical Examination of Slow and Quick Phases of Eye Movement
- Clinical Examination and Cancellation or Suppression Of the Vestibulocochlear Reflex
- Clinical Laboratory Evaluation of Fixation and Smooth Pursuit
- Clinical Applications Using PowerPoint And Keynote
- Clinical Applications Using Nonpredictable Step-Ramp Stimuli
- Clinical Understanding of Relationships of Latency, Acceleration, Velocity, Frequency of Ringing and Steady-State Gain
- Clinical Estimation of Gain for Constant Velocity Waveforms In Smooth Pursuit
- Clinical Utilization of Indirect Methods to Measure Smooth Pursuit Performance
- Clinical Applications of Power Spectral Measurements
- Clinical Applications of Quantitative Rating Scales Of Pursuit
- Cognitive Rehabilitation Of Abnormal Visual Fixation
- Cognitive Rehabilitation of Abnormal Pursuit Initiation
- Cognitive Rehabilitation Of Abnormalities of Pursuit to Sustained Target Motion
- Cognitive Rehabilitation Using the Relationship of Visual Fixation and Smooth Pursuant to Latent Nystagmus
- Clinical Applications Of Normal and Abnormal Fixation Behavior
- Clinical Understanding of Square Wave Jerks
- Clinical Understanding of Normal and Abnormal Function And Confounders
- Clinical Understanding of Lesions of Secondary Visual Areas in Concussion
- Clinical Understandings Of Localized Cerebral Lesions After Concussion
- Clinical Understandings Of Lesions in the Visual Subsystem After Concussion
- Clinical Understanding Of Ipsilateral Contralateral Deficits Of Smooth Pursuit
- Clinical Rehabilitation Design Specific to Individual Needs and Differences
- Clinical Understanding of Concussion and Unpleasant Visual And Somatic Distortion
- Clinical Understanding of Concussion and Central Vestibular Syndromes
- Clinical Applications Specific to Torsional Nystagmus, Skew Deviation, Ocular Torsion, Tilts of Head, Body, and the Perceived Vertical
- Clinical Application Is Directed to a Tonic Imbalance In All Planes
- Clinical Understanding Of Lesions from the Vestibular Nuclei to the Occulomotor Nuclei And Integration Centers in the Pons And Rostral Midbrain
- Clinical Understanding of Lesions of the Vestibular Cerebellum, Thalamus, Multisensory Vestibular Cortex
- Clinical Applications Involving Occulomotor, Perceptual And Postural Therapies
- Clinical Applications Of Super Nuclear or Nuclear Ocular Motor Disorders
- Clinical Understanding of the Parietal Insular Vestibular Cortex
- Clinical Understandings of the Neuronal Pathways That Mediate the VOR
- Clinical Applications and Differential Diagnosis Of Peripheral and Central Lesions
- Clinical Rehabilitation Applications To Avoid Compensatory Mechanisms
- Clinical Understanding of Sensory Mismatch and Therapy Development
- Clinical Simulation Skills Developing Concussion Treatments
- Clinical Simulation Skills Involving Autonomic Nervous System Complaints