Dave & Busters
20 City Blvd. W
Orange, CA 92868
This course discusses the most prevalent types of brain injury in the workplace. Statistics regarding the jobs with the highest rates of brain injury, as well as, other risk factors for sustaining a brain injury in the workplace will be reviewed. The most commonly reported persistent symptoms of brain injury and frequently utilized diagnostic procedures will be discussed. Treatment of cognitive, physical, occupational, psychosocial and neurobehavioral deficits following brain injury will be presented. Effectiveness of rehabilitation and cost savings associated with rehabilitation will be discussed.
Course Description
This workshop will review literature pertaining to postconcussion syndrome as a diagnostic entity, tracing its origin back to the 1800’s. The participants will be provided with a working definition of postconcussion syndrome and introduced to the terminology “mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI)” as recommended by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. The workshop reviews neuroanatomical and neurophysiological ramifications of MTBI. Factors which impact outcome from MTBI are identified. The treatment of MTBI will be reviewed from the perspective of medical and pharmacological coordination, psychological intervention, vestibular dysfunction, cognitive/communicative intervention, cardiovascular endurance intervention, and vocational rehabilitation. A lengthy bibliography is provided, and the workshop is conducted in an interactive lecture format with slides and handouts.
Course Objectives
Centre for Neuro Skills
Kathy Bermejo has worked in postacute brain injury rehabilitation since 1987. She holds a Master’s degree in Speech Pathology from Ohio University, is a licensed speech/language therapist in California, and holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She holds a Certificate of Case Management and is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist and Trainer.
Course Description
The course is designed to provide professionals and community members with foundational definitions of brain injury as a neurodevelopmental condition, important considerations (i.e., biological, electrophysiological, environmental), and brain health equity-related public health recommendations in light of the 2024 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) traumatic brain injury (TBI) classification and nomenclature workshop, which recommends against the use of the traditional tripartite model (“mild, moderate, severe”) in favor of a continuum based on a number of factors that are probabilistic rather than deterministic.
Course Objectives
Dr. Daniel A. Ignacio focuses on supporting those affected by brain injury and their families. He approaches rehabilitation from a systemic perspective, ranging from state-level policy to county-level community resources to individual-level psychosocial interventions. Dr. Ignacio serves as a clinical neuropsychology fellow for UCLA’s BrainSPORT program, certified brain injury specialist for Providence St. Jude medical center’s Brain Injury Network, director of vocational rehabilitation for assisted living
facilities, and lead of the data analytics committee of the TBI Advisory Board for the California Department of Rehabilitation.
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3.0 hr credit for CA-OT, CA-PT, CA-SLP, RN, CCM and General Certificates. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. CEP10075 for 3.0 contact hours. |
