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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Blended (face-to-face & Distance Learning)
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The aim of this course is to determine the pathologies and causes of vestibular system and to apply and direct appropriate rehabilitative approaches.
Course Content It includes a specially prepared rehabative approach to reduce the symptoms that prevent patients from performing daily living activities in vestibular system disorders.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Systems that play a role in maintaining balance (Vestibular, Visual and Proprioceptive Systems)
2General anatomy and physiology of peripheral and central vestibular system, multidisciplinary ethics and professional responsibility awareness
3Evaluation and treatment approaches in peripheral and central vestibular diseases
4Physiological basis of vestibular rehabilitation
5Vestibular compensation mechanism
6Where vestibular rehabilitation is indicated and contraindicated
7Glance stabilization exercises, oculo-motor exercises
8Postural stabilization exercises, habituation exercises
9Midterm
10Examination Evaluation, Basic principles of computerized dynamic posturography I
11Basic principles of computerized dynamic posturography II
12Rehabilitation approach in unilateral vestibular loss
13Rehabilitation approach in bilateral vestibular loss
14Factors affecting recovery in vestibular rehabilitation

Resources

1. Vestibular Rehabilitation, Susan J. Herdman F.A. Davis Company, 2015.
2. Vestibular disorders, a case-study approach, Furman, J.M., Cass, S.P., Oxford University Press, 2003
3. Ardıç, FN. Vertigo, Us Akademi Yayınevi, 2018.
4. Audiology Treatment, Valente-Hosford-Dunn-Valente, 2008.