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
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