Management of Post-Concussion Syndrome Montreal
Saturday May 09, 2015 from 08:30 AM to 04:30 PM
Montréal, CA
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Event Details
This full-day course focuses on the evidence-based practice of differential diagnosis, manual examination and treatment of patients who have an autonomic, cervicogenic, visual, or vestibular component to their symptoms post-concussion. The unique and proprietary R2P SCORE™ Tool will be introduced as an evidence-based, systematic approach to identifying functional impairments that may be contributing to persistent symptoms. Clinicians will be learn to rank treatment priorities based on the R2P SCORE™ results, and develop clinically sound individualized treatment protocols. Clinicians will be able to immediately apply acquired skills in the clinical setting.
Course Outline
8:30 Diagnosis of post-concussion syndrome; pathophysiology; symptom profiles.
9:00 Introduction to the R2P SCORE™ tool; understand how to identify functional impairments that may contribute to persistent PCS symptoms; R2P SCORE™ scoring criteria for assigning treatment priorities.
9:30 Neurovascular testing; upper cervical spine mobility and stress testing; validated dynamic stabilization protocol; and cervical joint positioning dysfunction.
10:30 Assessment for vestibular dysfunction, and algorithm for differential dizziness diagnosis.
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Common visual dysfunctions post-concussion; assessment of vestibulo-ocular reflex and ocular motor dysfunction; vergence disorders; visual motion sensitivity.
1:30 Sensory motor integration assessment; exertional testing for autonomic nervous system dysfunction.
2:30 Treatment priority and individualized vestibular, vision, and exercise therapy based on functional impairments.
3:30 Case studies with scoring interpretation.
4:00 Questions and Answers
Cost $295 + HST
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Hosted By
Jacquie van Ierssel PT, PhD, MScRehab, BScPT, BPE, FCAMPT, SPC Diploma, CAFCI
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Jacquie has over 20 years of experience working with individuals from a recreational level to Olympic athletes. During more than fifteen years of clinical and on-field experience at the University of Toronto with the concussion clinic and research staff, Jacquie treated a high volume of complex concussion patients, with a focus on return to play using a continuum of care that included preseason questionnaires, acute on-field assessment of injured athletes, management of acute and chronic symptoms, and return to play exercise progressions. As well, she completed her vestibular competency training at Emory University. She has been a clinical instructor at the University of Toronto, Department of Physical Therapy, and past chair of the Sport Physiotherapy Canada (SPC), Ontario. Her doctoral research focused on the development of the Concussion Recovery Questionnaire (CORE-Q), a functional status outcome measure for individuals with persistent post-concussion symptoms. Her work seeks to measure the impact of concussion in order to inform clinical management based on patient priorities. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario investigatinng the impact of concussion on children.