Vestibular Rehabilitation: Improving the Sixth Sense
Advanced eye movement diagnostics and vestibular rehab strategies for complex clinical presentations
Elevate your vestibular clinical reasoning with evidence-based eye movement diagnostics and rehab strategies across complex neurological conditions.
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Course Description
Vestibular and ocular motor dysfunction appear across a wider spectrum of clinical conditions than most training programs address. From cervicogenic dizziness to vestibular migraine, PPPD, and TBI, the ability to read eye movement findings and apply condition-specific rehabilitation strategies separates clinicians who manage symptoms from those who change outcomes.
In this one-credit course, Dr. David Traster translates the latest 2025 evidence into clinical tools you can apply immediately. You will develop a framework for interpreting ocular motor findings across neurological and musculoskeletal conditions, apply validated diagnostic criteria for vestibular migraine and PPPD, refine your BPPV assessment with advanced maneuver strategies, and match targeted eye movement therapies to specific patient presentations.
What you’ll learn:
- Apply ocular motor findings to differentiate neurological and vestibular conditions
- Use validated criteria to diagnose vestibular migraine and PPPD with confidence
- Select evidence-matched eye movement therapies for specific clinical presentations
- Perform advanced BPPV maneuvers including loaded and modified Dix-Hallpike
- Interpret positional nystagmus patterns using a minimal stimulus strategy protocol
More About This Course
The vestibular system is rarely isolated. Across conditions ranging from concussion and cervicogenic dizziness to vestibular migraine, persistent postural perceptual dizziness, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis, ocular motor dysfunction serves as one of the most diagnostically rich and therapeutically actionable findings in clinical practice. As eye movement assessment gains formal recognition in guidelines from the CDC, the DoD, the Movement Disorder Society, and the Barany Society, clinicians who can read and respond to these findings are positioned at the leading edge of evidence-based neurological rehabilitation.
This course gives you that clinical edge. Dr. David Traster, chiropractic neurologist and assistant professor at the Carrick Institute with fellowships in vestibular rehabilitation, TBI, and dysautonomia, translates the current 2025 evidence base into a practical framework you can apply immediately. You will walk away with a refined understanding of how saccades, smooth pursuits, VOR gain, vergence, and positional nystagmus map onto specific neurological conditions, how to apply the Barany Society consensus criteria for vestibular migraine and PPPD, and how to select the right eye movement therapy for the right patient.
This course is designed for licensed clinicians, including chiropractors, physical therapists, and other healthcare providers, who already work with vestibular and neurologically complex patients and want to deepen their diagnostic precision and therapeutic repertoire. It is particularly relevant to those managing post-concussion, chronic dizziness, migraine-associated vestibular symptoms, or functional neurological presentations.
Components
Educational Syllabus
- Eye Movements as Clinical Biomarkers
- Ocular motor findings across neurological and musculoskeletal conditions are gaining formal recognition in clinical guidelines. Build the diagnostic framework that links saccades, pursuits, VOR, vergence, and nystagmus to specific disease states.
- Vestibular Migraine and PPPD Decoded
- Two of the most commonly mismanaged vestibular diagnoses finally made clear. Apply Barany Society consensus criteria, understand the overlapping differentials, and identify the clinical exam findings that distinguish each condition from its mimics.
- Advanced BPPV Assessment and Nystagmus Mapping
- Move beyond standard Dix-Hallpike. Master the loaded maneuver, head-over-pillow technique, and minimal stimulus strategy protocol to accurately diagnose canalithiasis and cupulolithiasis patterns with greater sensitivity and patient safety.
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Vestibular Rehabilitation: Improving the Sixth Sense
Elevate your vestibular clinical reasoning with evidence-based eye movement diagnostics and rehab strategies across complex neurological conditions.
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