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Hot Topics and Innovations in Treatment of Dizziness, Vertigo, and Vestibular Disorders

• How your patients can benefit from cutting edge research

HANDS-ON LAB: Upgrade Your Assessment and Clinical Reasoning Skills

• Get to the root cause of impairments faster with today’s best tests and evaluations for:
  • Dizziness
  • Pain
  • Lightheadedness
  • Sleeplessness
  • Gait disturbances
  • Visual hallucinations
  • Drop attacks
  • Double vision
  • Oscillopsia
  • Tinnitus
  • Motion sensitivity
  • Gaze stability
  • Balance

HANDS-ON LAB: Revolutionize Your Rehab Toolbox for Dizziness, Vertigo, And Vestibular Disorders

• Practice effective techniques you can use immediately to:
  • End years of vertigo and dizziness in as little as one session
  • Significantly improve functional mobility and stability
  • Manage concussion symptoms more effectively
  • Return athletes to sport faster
  • Prevent falls
  • Improve balance and gait
  • Restore gaze stability and focus
  • Reduce migraines, neck pain, nausea, anxiety, and other related symptoms

HANDS-ON LAB: Combine Techniques More Effectively for Better Outcomes

• Practice integrating:
  • Epley maneuver and variations
  • Head thrust technique
  • Brandt-Daroff exercises
  • Roll technique
  • BBQ roll
  • Liberatory maneuver
  • Ocular motor assessment
  • Vestibular ocular reflex/gaze stabilization treatments
  • Saccade exercises
  • Optokinetic treatments
  • Subjective visual vertical assessment
  • Progressive advancement of visual motion
  • Treatment for exertional intolerance
  • Smooth pursuit neck torsion test
  • Joint mobility for cervicogenic dizziness

HANDS-ON LAB: Design Advanced, Innovative Plans of Care for Your Patients

• Practice developing comprehensive treatment strategies for common impairments, including:
  • Cervicogenic dizziness
  • Concussion
  • Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
  • Vestibular hypofunction
  • Vestibular neuronitis
  • Vestibular migraine
  • Labyrinthitis
  • Meniere’s disease
  • Acoustic neuroma

CASE STUDIES: Put Knowledge to Practice

• Case study 1: Correctly identify the root cause of impairment
• Case study 2: Differentiate cervicogenic dizziness, BPPV and vestibular hypofunction
• Case study 3: Problem solve a complex case of vestibular hypofunction
• Case study 4: Develop an effective treatment plan for Meniere’s
• Case study 5: Navigate pharmacological side effects and comorbidities
• Case study 6: Accurately measure patient outcomes
• Case study 7: Overcome barriers to strategy implementation

Maximize Your Reimbursement

• Coding and billing updates
• Justify rehab with the right progress measures
• Avoid denials and audits with these tips

Faculty

Jamie Miner, PT, DPT, GCS

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Jamie Miner, PT, DPT, GCS, provides specialized services to many SNFs. She has experience in home health, acute care, outpatient vestibular rehab and fall prevention, acute rehab, sub-acute rehab, and long-term care. Additionally, she serves as a clinical instructor to many doctoral physical therapy students and as an adjunct professor at Shenandoah University and Campbell University. Jamie graduated with a BS degree in PT from UNC Chapel Hill, a DPT from Shenandoah University and earned her vestibular certification at Emory University in March 2003.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Jamie Miner has an employment relationship with Rehabcare, Galloway Ridge Facility. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Shenandoah University. Ms. Miner receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Jamie Miner has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.