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Addressing Patient Behavior by Brain Lesion Site: Clinical Tools & Strategies Specific to Patient Deficits


Faculty:
Jerome Quellier
Duration:
7 Hours 30 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
VLW020789
Brochure Code:
18895
Media Type:
Live Webcast
Access:
Access for 90 day(s) after program date.

Dates


Description

Neuroanatomy is admittedly complex and overwhelming. Clinicians working in rehabilitation are faced with growing caseloads, diminished resources/reimbursement, and increasingly medically complex patients with the expectation of improving outcomes and reducing length of stay. Honing one’s knowledge of clinically-relevant neuroanatomy and neuropathology can predict dysfunction and intuitively create a scaffold for assessment and treatment even before meeting the patient. Predetermining potential deficits leads to a more tightly defined diagnostic battery and expedites treatment formulation. By deducing the patient’s experience, the clinician can also prepare for behavioral barriers to engagement and understand the healing process with greater compassion.

 

In this one-day seminar, participants will learn intermediate level neurophysiology as it relates to cognitive-linguistic skills and behavioral control, as well as explore mindfulness techniques for stress reduction. The overlying foci of the course are to arm treating professionals with an improved clinical eye, predicting dysfunction, and expedite the pathway to treatment. Course content will also include patient focused educational materials for stroke and traumatic brain injury ready to be utilized by treating practitioners.                   

 


 

Course Content

NEUROANATOMY AND THE IMPACT ON COGNITIVE PROCESSING  (CASE STUDY ICON)

  • Basic neuronal anatomy
  • Brain wiring: Association, projection, and commissural fiber tracts
  • Brain lobes locations and ties to cognitive processes
  • Cerebellum and impact upon cognition
  • Case Study 1: Jacob’s anxiety and how pacing the halls became therapeutic

OPTIC SYSTEM AND VISUAL PERCEPTION (CASE STUDY ICON)

  • Optic constructs, anterior-posterior fiber tracts
  • Visual cortices and unique roles in visual processing
  • Effect of tumors, shear injuries, CVA lesions upon visual perception
  • Case study 1: Why can’t my patient just see the whole worksheet like I do?
  • Group Exercise: Review of vision diagnostics by discipline (PT/OT/SLP)

HOW NEUROTRANSMITTERS DRIVE THE BUS

  • Internal communication systems within the brain
  • Dopamine pathways and effects on cognition and reward systems
  • Serotonin pathways and mood modulations

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE FRONTAL LOBE

  • The Cognitive Pyramid and moving patients upward
  • Skull anatomy and effects of shear injury
    • Shear injury as it affects anxiety and behavioral health
  • Therapy implications for PT/OT/SLP
  • Group Exercise: Review of executive function diagnostics by discipline (PT/OT/SLP)

COMMUNICATION AND THE LEFT HEMISPHERIC FUNCTIONS

  • Broca’s vs. Wernike’s areas
  • Function of the arcuate fasciculus upon communication

SPATIAL PROCESSING AND THE RIGHT HEMISPHERIC FUNCTIONS

  • Neurophysiology vs neuropathology, understanding patients’ nonverbal challenges
  • Inferential language and social cognition
  • A sense of time and spatial organization revealed

THE HIDDEN PROCESSORS-THALAMIC INFLUENCES

  • Auditory pathways and neuroanatomy
  • Thalamic engagement on sensory information
  • Modulation of sleep and vigilance

MEMORY: HOW THE HIPPOCAMPUS AND THE AMYGDALA PARTNER  (CASE STUDY ICON)

  • Memory processes
  • Memory types: Right vs Left hippocampal functions
  • Hypoxia and anoxia upon memory function
  • Sleep and memory consolidation, effect of exercise on memory structures
  • Amygdala’s influence upon fear-based learning and hijacking executive control
  • Case study 3: Nile’s hypoxia and long tern rehab outcomes

RECOVERY FROM ACCELERATION/DECELERATION INJURIES: DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY (DAI)

  • Microanatomical features of DAI
  • CTE: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
  • Where medications have failed

AGITATION MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

  • Review how working knowledge of the Rancho Los Amigos levels and Practitioner tips can avoid confrontation
  • Learn trick of the trade for avoiding escalation
  • Confabulation and denial—addressing the elephant in the room

ENRICHING PATIENT AND CLINCIAN RELATIONSHIPS

  • The science behind mediations and mindfulness
  • Reigning in the runaway situation 

Credits



Handouts

Faculty

Jerome Quellier Related seminars and products

MS, CCC-SLP


JEROME QUELLIER, MS, CCC-SLP, is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist with over 20 years of acute care experience whose clinical subspecialties include swallowing, traumatic brain injury, stroke rehabilitation, oral-pharyngeal cancer rehabilitation, and assisting patients in palliative decision making for the dysphasic patient.  He is currently a Clinical Specialist at a Level 1 trauma hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota, treating neurologically impaired adults and geriatrics and managing Tracheoesophageal Prosthesis (TEP) care. Additionally, he treats head and neck cancer patients in conjunction with the Department of Radiation Oncology, amd trains hospital-based rehab staff, nurses, and internal medicine residents on the management of this unique population.

 

Mr. Quellier has been a faculty member at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and adjunct faculty at the University of Wisconsin, teaching graduate coursework on tracheostomy and head and neck cancer. He also possesses extensive experience in quality and process improvement for rehabilitation services. Mr. Quellier received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. During his professional tenure, he has been a direct care provider in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and homecare settings, and has acted as the shared services coordinator between various community hospitals.

 

Disclosure:

  • Financial- Receives a speaking honorarium from Vyne Education, LLC.
  • Nonfinancial-No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.


Target Audience

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Speech-Language Pathologists, Nurses, Certified Brain Injury Specialists, Social Workers, Recreational Therapists

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Overall:      4.2

Total Reviews: 20

Comments

Sylwia B - ANNAPOLIS, Maryland

"Excellent course! Perfect speaker!"

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