Course Title: Sensory Integration Following Concussion: Deep Dive into the Visual System’s Role Across the Rehabilitation Spectrum

Course Description: This course will be delivered in person and is intended as a subsequent course following Demystifying Concussion to take a deeper dive into the role vision plays in sensory system integration. Objective assessment and interventional strategies will be covered for optimal training opportunities for safe return to activity. Rehabilitation providers have a unique opportunity to recognize deficits early and integrate specific training of visual system integration with other clinical trajectories impaired in concussion injury.  Communication of visual, vestibular, and cervical posture/awareness is key to gaze stabilization and is often under assessed or not fully integrated into rehabilitation protocols.  Motor control and balance are also integral mechanisms that have a unique role communicating with the visual system during functional tasks involving single and multi-task performance. Attention, reaction time, peripheral awareness and postural stability occur simultaneously and need to be intentionally considered based on specific demands of the individual. This course will break down neurophysiology specific to communication mechanisms between sensory systems and take a deep dive into comprehensive assessment as well as interventional planning to include progression to full return to activity/sport.  Higher level neuromotor control specific to sensory system integration has been proposed as the potential link to increased subsequent injury risk and can potentially be mitigated following injury.