Course Description:

Therapists often get scripts for R42 Dizziness and giddiness evaluate and treat. These patients report a wide variety of symptoms such as dizziness, light headedness, disequilibrium, vertigo, double vision, headache, mental fogginess, fatigue, anxiety, fear of falling and many other seeming nonsensical subjective comments. Many times these referrals come without significant medical history or full ENT work up. The goal of this course is to help you develop a framework to sequentially rule out or identify various sources of dizziness. As we can isolate and provoke symptoms, then we can then match these findings to common vestibular diagnoses or impairment patterns. The course will then discuss and practice current best practice techniques to address these impairments. The list of diagnoses we will discuss includes benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, unilateral and bilateral vestibular hypofunction, cervicogenic, cardiogenic, vestibular based balance impairments, persistent postural perceptual dizziness and other functional neurologic disorders. This course will include a lecture component, a lab component to practice tests and interventions, and case studies to practice differential diagnoses.