Vestibular Issues And Balance Disorders CEU Courses

This course discusses how a group of clinicians from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) embarked on a mission trip to Kraków, Poland, to provide vestibular services to Ukrainian refugees. Vestibular testing out in the community has broad implications on humanitarian efforts in audiology, education, and research within communication sciences and disorders.

Sheila Thelen, President of Vestibular Training Services and Master Rated Figure Skating Coach, applied these world-class vestibular training tools (USA Patent) in an innovation presentation on how spinning affects the vestibular system and can improve the brain’s ability to balance and cognitive processes.

The second edition of Electronystagmography and Videonystagmography (ENG/VNG) serves as a practical guide for conducting and interpreting ENG/VNG examinations, covering normal and impaired vestibular system function, central nervous system compensation, and ENG/VNG subtests. Additionally, it includes information on common dizziness-causing disorders diagnostic criteria, and provides illustrative case studies for both graduate students and practicing clinicians.

This course discusses various otologic diseases and how audiologists can participate in the care.

This course introduces audiologists to the concepts of Whole Health – an evidence-based, multi-disciplinary, personalized, Veteran-driven approach that empowers and equips Veterans to take charge of their health and well-being, live life to the fullest, and participate in their health decisions. The application to hearing loss/tinnitus/balance is discussed.

This course will help audiologists and vestibular providers alike solidify their knowledge of obtaining a case history and other patient information that is useful for vestibular testing. Asking more direct questions, determining candidacy, using functional assessment tools, helping to appropriately counsel, and clinical considerations for testing are covered in this course.

Audiovestibular system assessment and management are crucial in head injuries to improve a person’s life. This lecture discusses the pathomechanism, epidemiology, clinical features, and management of audiovestibular injuries following head injuries and the legal perspective with the author’s own extensive case series.

Given their training in the detection and non-medical management of both hearing and balance disorders, most audiologists believe that falls risk management is within their professional scope of practice. However few hearing professionals incorporate fall risk screening into their practice or feel sufficiently trained to do so. This course will discuss how attendees can work within their scope of practice to implement fall prevention and management to help reduce the burden of their patients' underlying risk factors of falling.

This course focuses on cases that incorporate aspects of medical audiology and considerations for audiologists providing patient care in this population.

This talk aims to unravel the fundamentals of vestibular assessments in children. It is specifically designed for clinicians taking their first steps in incorporating pediatric vestibular assessments into their practice.