{"id":1128,"date":"2022-04-12T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/blog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2022-04-12T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:41:50","slug":"vestibular-rehab-continuing-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/blog\/vestibular-rehab-continuing-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Vestibular Rehab Continuing Education &#8211; Learn to Address the Vestibular System&#8217;s Impact on Dizziness and Balance."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unintentional falls are the leading cause of injury for adults in the US. (1)  The Vestibular system provides orientation in space and the ability to adapt to changing environments.  Dizziness and balance dysfunction can occur when the vestibular system is not working optimally. This, in turn, puts the person at risk for falls.  Learn the importance of the vestibular system for dynamic equilibrium and body positioning to prevent falls.   The video below is part of the Vestibular Rehab Continuing Education in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/healthclick_subscription.php\">healthclick all-access online subscription<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_1GP0IDKCm8?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Vestibular Rehabilitation that combines sensory integration along with motor coordination promotes balance stability. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/healthclick_subscription.php\"> healthclick all-access subscription <\/a>provides a series of vestibular rehab online courses on evaluating and treating vestibular-related balance and falls. Learn from various skilled clinicians and educators by combining courses that represent some of the top vestibular clinicians in the rehab environment.  Courses within the series include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/courses\/vestibular-rehab-examination-and-treatment.php\">Vestibular Rehabilitation: Evaluation and Treatment<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/courses\/complex-vestibular-rehab.php\">Restoring Synergy<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/courses\/vestibular-treatment-for-the-elderly.php\">Progressive Vestibular Treatments for the Over 60 Population<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/courses\/balance-and-falls-in-the-elderly-population.php\">Balance and Falls in the Elderly Population<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/courses\/treating-balance-dysfunction.php\">Evidence-Based Outcome Tools for Treating Balance Dysfunction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The correlation between the Vestibular System and Balance is explored in our Vestibular Rehab Continuing Education Course Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing to realize is that keeping your balance is not easy because if you\u2019re trying to stand upright and sway just a little bit forward or backward, you can lose your balance. If the center of your body gets just a few degrees in front of your toes, you\u2019re in free fall. If you sway a little bit backward, you\u2019re in free-fall too. So that means that you have a very narrow safety range of balance before you fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The body has several systems that are used to maintain your balance, and you have to think about these from a systems perspective, a systems physiology perspective. First, you can use your eyes to tell whether you\u2019re swaying forward. Then you have your inner ear, or the vestibular system, which tells you whether you\u2019re moving, and I\u2019ll talk about this in a minute. You have your feet which tell you whether you\u2019re moving. There\u2019s also your internal idea of where you are in space, in other words, your brain, which is what you use to predict; for example, I start to lean forward, so I\u2019m probably forward. Your body takes all four of these streams of sensory information and uses them to help you maintain your balance and let you know where you are in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s go back now to the ear. Here I have a model of the ear, which is much larger than life. So inside the ear, about an inch or so is called the inner ear. It\u2019s located behind the eardrum and is a very small structure that\u2019s only the size of a dime. But you find a lot of microminiaturized components in this tiny little structure inside your ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/healthclick_subscription.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vestibulo-spinal-tracts_web-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Vestibular Rehab Continuing Education\" class=\"wp-image-1195\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Vestibular Rehab Continuing Education<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The inner ear is composed of two parts. The front part is used for hearing, which I won\u2019t talk about very much, and the back is used for balance. This is called the vestibular system or the labyrinth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll notice these three tubes in the labyrinth, which are mutually perpendicular. And when you turn your head around any axis, signals go from the inner ear into the brain through this nerve, called the vestibular nerve. These three tubes tell you how fast you\u2019re rotating in space or the velocity of head rotation, and there are also some structures that I can\u2019t see from the outside that tell you whether you\u2019re tilting with respect to gravity, and those are called the otoliths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The semicircular canals, which respond to head velocity, and the otoliths that respond to tilt provide a lot of information about where you\u2019re oriented in space. They tell you how quickly you\u2019re rotating, and they tell you whether you\u2019re tilting or whether you might be falling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why Choose a Subscription that contains a Series of Vestibular Rehab Online courses?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Multiple expert clinicians and researchers present their approaches to managing vestibular-related disorders.<\/li><li>An eclectic approach to vestibular rehab<\/li><li>Various resources for evaluation and treatment in one subscription<\/li><li>Receive a comprehensive approach to a specific topic<\/li><li>Identify the implementation of standardized tests and procedures from a variety of clinicians<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-accent-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthclick.com\/healthclick_subscription.php\">Learn more about our All Access Annual Subscription<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>References<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/injury\/wisqars\/animated-leading-causes.html\">CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2676433\/\">Horak FB, Wrisley DM, Frank J. The Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest) to differentiate balance deficits.&nbsp;<em>Phys Ther<\/em>. 2009;89(5):484-498. doi:10.2522\/ptj.20080071<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3724742\/\">Ekvall Hansson E, Magnusson M. Vestibular asymmetry predicts falls among elderly patients with multi-sensory dizziness.&nbsp;<em>BMC Geriatr<\/em>. 2013;13:77. Published 2013 Jul 22. doi:10.1186\/1471-2318-13-77<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/773517\">Agrawal Y, Carey JP, Della Santina CC, Schubert MC, Minor LB. Disorders of Balance and Vestibular Function in US Adults:&nbsp;Data From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001-2004.&nbsp;<em>Arch Intern Med.<\/em>&nbsp;2009;169(10):938\u2013944. doi:10.1001\/archinternmed.2009.66<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unintentional falls are the leading cause of injury for adults in the US. (1) The Vestibular system provides orientation in space and the ability to adapt to changing environments. Dizziness and balance dysfunction can occur when the vestibular system is not working optimally. 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