Advanced Vestibular Rehabilitation
Third Party Event
| Venue | Royal Victoria Eye And Ear Hospital Dublin |
| City | Dun Laoghaire |
| County | Dublin |
| Contact Hours | 14 |
| Event Type | Course/Workshop |
| Specialities | Gerontology, Musculoskeletal Therapy, Neurology, Sports Medicine |
| Presenter Details | Professor Courtney Hall, PT, PhD received her professional Physical Therapy degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently she is a Research Health Scientist at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center in Tennessee and Professor Emerita in the Physical Therapy Program at East Tennessee State University. Her clinic and research foci are on understanding age-related changes in balance control and how best to intervene therapeutically to prevent loss of mobility, falls, and reduce dizziness. Dr. Hall’s current research is funded through the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health, and seeks to develop novel rehabilitation interventions using technology to alleviate symptoms of dizziness and imbalance. Dr. Hall was the team lead of the original and the updated Clinical Practice Guideline on vestibular rehabilitation for the American Physical Therapy Association. Dr Lisa Heusel-Gillig has been a vestibular physical therapist in the Emory Dizziness and Balance Center in Atlanta Georgi since 2001. She earned her Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2007 and became a Board Certified Neurology Clinical Specialist in 2010. She has been a part of many research studies conducted at Emory to improve the care of vestibular patients. She has published many journal articles including “The Development and Validation of the Modified Motion Sensitivity Test” and “Effectiveness of Vestibular Rehabilitation for Patients with Degenerative Ataxia” She has been on the faculty of the annual Emory Vestibular Rehabilitation Competency Course since 2001 and has been a co-director for 5 years. She has also taught the same course and advanced course internationally in Australia and New Zealand as well as in weekend courses across the country. She is active in the APTA, Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy and Vestibular Special Interest Group leadership team. Dr. Dara Meldrum is a physiotherapist and Associate Professor at the Academic Unit of Neurology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She has over 25 years of clinical, research and teaching experience specialising in vestibular and neurological rehabilitation. She works clinically at the Balance Centre in Dublin. Her research is focused on the application of technology in physical measurement and neuro-rehabilitation. She has published over 85 peer reviewed research papers and 5 book chapters. Dr. Meldrum contributed to the updated Clinical Practice Guideline on vestibular rehabilitation for the American Physical Therapy Association. She is the inventor and founder of Vertigenius™ which is a medical device with a wearable head sensor, clinician platform and patient app. for the treatment of dizziness vertigo and imbalance. Profile Links https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dara-Meldrum/research https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=QZ4mpDYAAAAJ Dr. Douglas Duffy, DPT MISCP received his doctorate in physiotherapy from Arcadia University in Philadelphia, USA in 2004. He has a post-doctoral certificate in vestibular rehabilitation from Emory University run by the leading experts in the field. After training and working in America, he moved to Ireland in 2006. He is practice owner at the Balance Centre and a Senior Physiotherapist in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. He has given numerous lectures and taught courses in the evaluation and treatment of vestibular and balance disorders and has been a clinical tutor on vestibular disorders at the Eye and Ear hospital for UCD and Trinity medical students. |
| Refreshments Included | Yes |
| Free Event | No |
| How to Book | Phone or Email |
| Contact Person | Doug Duffy |
| Contact Email | [email protected] |
| Contact Phone | 6625997 |
| Pre Course Requirement | Basic Vestibular Course |
| Member Price | €400.00 |
| Branch Price | €400.00 |
| Non-Member Price | €400.00 |
| Date | 6 Sep 2025 11:26 - 7 Sep 2025 11:26 |
Course objectives At the end of this course you will have advanced your clinical examination and reasoning skills for the purposes of vestibular rehabilitation. You will be able to treat BPPV at a more advanced level and will have an appreciation of advances in treatment for peripheral and central vestibular disorders. Through a series of lectures and practicals, you will learn more advanced skills of assessment and treatment. Class participation during presentations of case studies will improve your clinical reasoning, interpretation of examination findings and treatment of patients with vestibular disorders. The faculty of 4 expert clinicians will facilitate learning in small groups.
Who is this course suitable for?
You must be a CORU registered physiotherapist (or registered physiotherapist in another jurisdiction) to participate in this course and be able to provide evidence of this at registration. You must have completed a basic vestibular rehabilitation course, and ideally be treating vestibular patients as part of your caseload. It is important to note that basic skills will not be taught at this course.
Day 1: Saturday, September 6 |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Review of the Clinical Examination and Advanced Examination |
Hall |
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10.00-10.30 |
Practicum: Clinical Examination |
All faculty |
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
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10:45 – 12:15 |
Lecture: Advanced treatment techniques and clinical decision-making for BPPV
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Hall
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12:15 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00 – 2:30 |
Practicum: BPPV
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All faculty |
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2:30 – 3:30 |
Lecture: Identification and management: Vestibular migraine vs. PPPD
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Heusel-Gillig
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3.30-4.00 |
Factors impacting rehabilitation outcomes |
Hall |
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4.00-4.30 |
Cases and problem solving |
All faculty |
Day 2: Sunday, September 7 |
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8:30 – 9:30 |
Lecture: Vestibular dysfunction and rehabilitation in neurodegenerative disorders (CB/MS/PD/MCI) |
Heusel-Gillig |
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9:30 – 10:30 |
Practicum: Assessment and treatment central vestibular disorders (mMST, VVAS, habituation) |
All faculty |
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
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10:45 – 12:00 |
Lecture: Updated Clinical Practice Guideline for Peripheral Vestibular Hypofunction |
Hall |
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12:00 – 12:45 |
Lunch |
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12:45– 2:00 |
Lecture: Management of older adults with vestibular dysfunction |
Hall |
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2:00 – 3:00 |
Lecture: Updates in Gaze Stability and Balance Exercise prescription (inc. Technology/remote tx) |
Meldrum |
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3.00-4.00 |
Case Presentations and problem solving |
ALL |
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4:00-4.30 |
Q&A |
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