Robert Constantine – Innovative Vision Rehab Strategies for PTs, OTs, & SLPs: Don’t Let Vision Limit Your Patient’s Progress

Outline

How Vision Deficits Create Unseen Therapy Roadblocks with…

• Neurological disorders
  • Stroke
  • TBI
  • Parkinson’s
• Balance, posture and gait
• ADLs
• Reading, communication and cognition

Hands-On Lab: Spot Vision Deficits Early to Avoid Progress Plateaus

• Vision anatomy and its impact on function
• Understanding your patient’s vision complaints and history
• Comprehensive vision assessment, step-by-step
• Adapt and improve therapy using assessment findings

Hands-On Lab: Game-Changing Vision Rehab Interventions

• Practice proven techniques you can use immediately to:
  • Increase safety during ambulation and transfers
  • Reduce falls
  • Reduce dizziness and motion sensitivity
  • Improve posture and gait
  • Improve compliance with home exercise programs and prescriptions
  • Improve performance of ADLs
  • Improve reading and communication
  • Increase functional independence
  • Improve depth perception
  • Eliminate double vision
  • Improve peripheral awareness
  • Expand visual fields

How to Combine Multiple Approaches More Effectively for Better Outcomes

• Functional compensation strategies
• Visual accommodations
• Visual field scanning
• Binocular vision exercises
• Optical lenses
• Prism adaptation
• Cataract surgery

Hands-On Lab: Design Advanced, Innovative Plans for Care for Your Patients

• Practice effective strategies for resolving functional deficits caused by:
  • Blindness
  • Macular degeneration
  • Glaucoma
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Presbyopia
  • Retinitis pigmentosa
  • Double vision
  • Cataracts
  • Visual field cuts

Case Studies: Put Knowledge to Practice

• Case study 1: Correctly select the root cause of impairment
• Case study 2: Problem solve a complex vision impairment and develop an effective treatment plan
• Case study 3: Navigate pharmacological side effects and comorbidities
• Case study 4: Adapt a standard plan of care for a legally blind patient
• Case study 5: Overcome barriers to effective strategy implementation

Maximize Your Reimbursement

• Coding and billing updates for vision rehabilitation
• Justify therapy with the right progress measures
• Avoid denials and audits with these tips