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Movement Disorders II
Advanced clinical training in movement disorder phenomenology, localization, and functional neuroscience
Deepen your clinical edge with live case-based training in movement disorder phenomenology, oculomotor localization, and functional neuroscience.
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Course Description
Movement disorders remain among the most diagnostically challenging presentations clinicians encounter. Subtle phenomenology is missed, lesions are mislocalized, and patients cycle through providers without answers. The clinical gaps are rarely about knowledge alone. They are about the ability to see, describe, and reason precisely in real time.
This course places you inside the examination room for live, unscripted cases spanning Huntington's disease, dystonia, cerebellar dysfunction, post-traumatic oculomotor and speech disorders, tics, and hyperkinetic movement disorders. You will develop the perceptual precision to classify what you see, the neuroanatomical reasoning to localize why it is happening, and the clinical framework to build individualized treatment plans grounded in functional neuroscience.
What you’ll learn:
- Classify hyperkinetic and akinetic movement disorders using systematic phenomenology
- Localize cerebellar, basal ganglia, and brainstem pathology from clinical findings
- Differentiate organic from functional movement disorders with precision examination
- Interpret oculomotor signs, convergence spasm, and pupillary responses clinically
- Design treatment plans using optokinetic, sensory, and rehabilitative strategies
More About This Course
Movement disorders represent one of the most demanding intersections of clinical neuroscience, requiring clinicians to simultaneously observe, classify, localize, and plan treatment across systems that span the cerebellum, basal ganglia, mesencephalon, brainstem, and frontal cortex. Movement Disorders Part 2, taught by Dr. Frederick Carrick, delivers 25 hours of advanced clinical neurology education built around live, unscripted patient examinations that expose the full complexity of real-world practice. This is the training ground for clinicians who want to see what others miss.
This course functions as a clinical capability upgrade. Working through seven structured chapters, clinicians develop fluency in the neurological examination as it applies to movement disorder phenomenology, including the ability to grade and describe hyperkinetic and akinetic presentations with precision. Case material spans Huntington's disease, dystonia, chorea, post-traumatic oculomotor dysfunction, convergence spasm, cerebellar localization, tic disorders, and autonomic correlates of gait impairment. Each case is examined live, creating an authentic model of clinical reasoning that translates directly to practice.
The oculomotor curriculum alone represents a significant clinical advance for attending clinicians. Chapters dedicated to ocular motor findings, convergence spasm, pupillary responses, and visual field interpretation build a systematic examination framework that allows precise differentiation between organic and functional presentations, between brain stem and cerebellar pathology, and between treatable and irreversible conditions. Functional movement disorders, their phenomenology, and their management through sensory integration, optokinetic stimulation, and rehabilitative strategies are addressed in depth across multiple chapters.
This course is designed for licensed chiropractors, chiropractic neurologists, and allied health clinicians seeking advanced continuing education in clinical neuroscience. It is particularly suited to clinicians who already manage complex neurological presentations and who want to elevate their diagnostic precision, localization reasoning, and treatment planning for the most challenging patients they see.
Dr. Frederick Carrick is a globally recognized authority in functional neurology, vestibular rehabilitation, brain injury rehabilitation, and electrodiagnostics. His clinical faculty experience, international research collaborations, and decades of direct movement disorder case experience make this course a rare opportunity to learn through observation of a master clinician working in real time.
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Educational Syllabus
- Mastering the Neurological Examination for Movement Disorders
- Build the observational foundation every complex case demands. Learn to resist innate saccadic habits, adopt pursuit-based scanning, and extract clinical data from subtle phenomenology before formal testing begins.
- Clinical Phenomenology and Movement Classification
- Distinguish tremor, chorea, dystonia, myoclonus, tics, and ataxia with confidence. Gain the descriptive language and grading precision that separates accurate clinical reasoning from guesswork when seeing live presentations.
- Ocular Motor Examination in Movement Disorder Practice
- Transform eye movement assessment into a localization tool. Learn to describe horizontal and vertical gaze findings with the precision required to identify cerebellar, brainstem, and cortical contributions in real patients.
- Convergence Spasm and the Near Reflex in Clinical Context
- Unlock one of the most frequently misdiagnosed signs in neurology. Understand how convergence spasm, pupilloconstriction, and accommodation interact, and build the examination skills to identify and differentiate it from sixth nerve palsy.
- Visual Field Defects, Tubular Vision, and Functional Visual Loss
- Develop the clinical tools to identify functional versus organic visual field loss, examine for tubular defects, and apply mirror and optokinetic tests that reveal what standard testing misses in complex patients.
- Functional Movement Disorders and Neuropsychiatric Localization
- Learn the defining clinical signs of functional movement disorders including platysma contraction, ipsilateral motor sensory loss, and convergence spasm. Build the reasoning framework to confirm functional versus organic localization.
- Cerebellar and Mesencephalic Functional Neuroscience
- Understand the dentato-rubro-thalamo-cortical pathways, inferior olivary complex, and dopaminergic activation systems as they apply to movement disorder presentation, diaschisis, and the design of rehabilitative interventions.
- Basal Ganglia Pathology and Movement Disorder Localization
- Map dystonia to the globus pallidus, tics to the subthalamic nucleus, and myoclonus to the neostriatum. Learn the imaging hallmarks including hot cross bun sign, hummingbird sign, and eye of the tiger across major conditions.
- Huntington's Disease Phenotyping and Clinical Management
- Move beyond diagnosis into treatment. Learn to grade choreiform movements, attenuate chorea using hemifield light stimulation, and design individualized rehabilitative programs that improve function and quality of life across disease stages.
- Dystonia Classification, Sensory Integration, and Treatment
- Master the clinical differentiation of primary, exercise-induced, and mitochondrial dystonias. Apply saccadic remapping, dark pursuit strategies, and ketogenic diet protocols to reduce dystonic activity and improve motor control.
- Gait Disorders, Frontal Systems, and Autonomic Localization
- Read gait patterns as a window into frontal lobe, cerebellar, and autonomic function. Differentiate Parkinsonian shuffling from cerebellar ataxia and vestibular instability, and build the history and examination skills to localize precisely.
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, MSA, and Imaging Differentiation
- Develop confidence in the differential diagnosis of axial Parkinsonian syndromes. Identify olivopontocerebellar atrophy on imaging and apply clinical reasoning to distinguish PSP from MSA type C in presentations that confound most clinicians.
- Tics, Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders, and Autoimmune Chorea
- Build clinical fluency across tic disorders, Tourette syndrome, acanthocytosis, and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. Learn which laboratory investigations to order and when, based on phenomenology and clinical context.
- Drug-Induced Dyskinesia, Hepatocerebral Degeneration, and Labs
- Distinguish tardive dyskinesia from acquired hepatocerebral degeneration and neuroacanthocytosis. Gain the clinical and laboratory reasoning skills to identify the correct etiology when movement disorder presentations overlap.
- Live Post-Traumatic Case: Oculomotor, Speech, and Vestibular Dysfunction
- Observe a complete clinical examination of a post-traumatic patient presenting with convergence spasm, Broca's aphasia, lateral medullary syndrome, and cerebellar pathology. See diagnostic reasoning and treatment planning unfold in real time.
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