Carrick Institute Concussion/mTBI Program
The Carrick Institute concussion/mTBI program is designed to train healthcare professionals how to understand, examine and treat sports-related concussions/mTBI. This program is one of immersive integrated clinical education designed to promote mastery of the subject area and long-term learning.
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.
This program prepares our Clinical Scholars to be able to:
- Create innovative clinical environments designed to manage the Concussion/mTBI patient.
- Learn to evaluate and create individual programs to care for patients after Concussion/mTBI.
- Leverage evidence-based clinical practice to create a best practice that networks with other Concussion/mTBI specialists.
Topics:
- Skew Deviation & the OTR Vertical and Cyclovertical Strabismus
- Rehabilitation Strategies Utilizing the Vertical & Torsional VOR
- Concussion and the Pathologic OTR
- Clinical Applications of Ipsilesional and Contralesional Head Tilt
- Pathological Skew Deviation Versus Superior Oblique Palsy
- Parks 3-Step test with Bielschowsky Tilt Test
- The Symptoms and Signs of Skew Deviation Vs S0 Palsy
- The Clinical Determinants of Vestibuloocular Reflex Game
- Concussion Rehabilitation Using Active Versus Passive Head Rotation
- Concussion Rehabilitation Using Fixation Of Stationary Versus Moving Targets
- Concussion Rehabilitation Using Head Stationary and Head And Body Rotation
- Movement Disorders of the Head And Neck After Concussion
- Clinical Understanding of Dynamic Balance of Brain Activation during Head Rotation and Translation
- Ewald’s Second Law (excitatory stimuli are more effective than inhibitory stimuli)
- Clinical Understanding of Subjective Visual Vertical
- Disequilibrium, Unsteadiness, And Vertigo after Concussion
- Understanding The Perception of Self Motion And Sensory Mismatch
- Acute Peripheral Vestibular Lesions after Head Trauma
- Clinical confounding of Objective Measurements
- Clinical Understanding of Lateral Medullary Infarction (Wallenberg Syndrome)
- Clinical Applications of Tests of Vestibular Balance
- Clinical use of Tragal Pressure, Valsalva Maneuvers, Hyperventilation, Mastoid Vibration and Sounds
- Clinical Understanding of Nystagmus
- Gaze Preferences and Visual Compensation For Brain Injury
- Clinical Use of the Ophthalmoscope In Diagnosis and Treatment Of Concussion
- Clinical Applications to Identify a Dynamic Vestibular Imbalance
- Head Impulse Test
- Clinical Applications of Head Posture And Eye Movement Exercises
- Clinical Understanding of Hypoactive and Hyperactive Translational VOR
- Clinical Understanding Of Asymmetry of the Loss of the Storage With Central Brain Lesions
- Rehabilitation Considerations of Torsional Optokinetic Nystagmus
- Clinical Utilization Of Vibration In Sensory Stimuli
- Clinical Quantification of Vestibular Gain At the Bedside
- Developing Treatment Strategies For Abnormal Gain of the Rotational VOR
- Clinical Understanding Of Head Movement and Tremor After Concussion
- Clinical Applications Of Corrective Lenses And VOR Gain
- Clinical Insights into Rotational Testing and Treatment
- Clinical Measurements of the Time Constant of the VOR
- Clinical Understanding Of Corrective Saccades
- Bedside OptokineticTesting
- Clinical Understanding Of the Pathophysiology Central Vestibular Connections
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
