Vestibular Rehabilitation (Advanced Audiology Masterclass)

You'll have lectures on:

• general causes of dizziness
• the patient interview (taking a history)
• clinical and objective tests of balance
• overview of vestibular rehabilitation (VR) and outcome measures
• assessment and treatment of basic benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)

There will also be workshops on:

• clinical tests of balance (during the day)
• objective assessments of balance function (evening)
• basic positional tests - a refresher (evening)

Over these two days you'll have lectures on:

• assessment and treatment of complex BPPV
• vestibular rehabilitation
• a neurologist’s view of the dizzy patient
• medical management of patient’s with complex vestibular dysfunction
• anxiety management for patients with dizziness
• motion sickness
• visual vertigo and machine-based therapy
• optokinetic desensitisation
• managing patients with hyperventilation syndrome and vestibular migraine

There will also be workshops on:

• developing your VR skills
• hyperventilation syndrome

There may also be additional workshops in the evenings.