The Biopsychosocial Approach to Dizziness
The Biopsychosocial Approach to Dizziness
1 hour
The instructors
Overview
Dizziness is rarely the result of a single system in isolation. While vestibular and musculoskeletal factors are often considered, psychological, social, and contextual influences can play a significant role in how dizziness presents, persists, and impacts daily life.
In this webinar, Carolyn Vandyken will explore dizziness through a biopsychosocial lens, encouraging clinicians to broaden their clinical reasoning beyond structure and pathology alone. This session will focus on understanding how stress, fear, beliefs, past experiences, and environmental factors may interact with physical systems to influence symptoms and recovery.
This webinar is designed to support clinicians in developing a more integrated, person-centred approach to patients experiencing dizziness, particularly in cases where symptoms are persistent, complex, or disproportionate to objective findings.
Who This Webinar Is For
This session may be valuable for:
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Physiotherapists and rehabilitation professionals
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Clinicians working with patients experiencing persistent or complex dizziness
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Practitioners interested in integrating biopsychosocial principles into vestibular care
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
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Apply a biopsychosocial lens to the assessment and management of patients experiencing dizziness
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Identify psychosocial and contextual factors that may contribute to persistent or complex dizziness presentations
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Shift away from a purely pathoanatomical “fix-it” mindset toward more collaborative, person-centred care
Registration & What’s Included
Registration includes:
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Access to the live webinar
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Live Q&A—bring your clinical questions
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Access to the recording
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Downloadable resource(s)/slides
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Certificate of completion
This webinar is free for Embodia Members. The registration fee for non-members is $20.
This session is part of the Let’s Talk Vestibular webinar series. You may register for individual sessions or enroll in the full series.
Recording and Replays
This webinar will be recorded and made available on Embodia as a course at no additional cost for registered attendees. If you’re unable to attend live, you’ll receive access to the recording and any shared resources shortly after the session.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for U.S. PTs and PTAs
This webinar provides 1 CEU for eligible participants.
Embodia is an approved provider of continuing education for Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants in multiple jurisdictions, including Illinois, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and California (through Redefine Health Education).
Courses approved by these state boards are likely accepted for licensure credit in the following jurisdictions, based on individual state regulations:
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Clinicians are encouraged to confirm acceptance with their state licensing board.
The instructors
BHSc (PT)
Carolyn is the co-owner of Reframe Rehab, a teaching company engaged in breaking down the barriers internationally between pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science. Carolyn has practiced in orthopaedics and pelvic health for the past 37 years. She is a McKenzie Credentialled physiotherapist (1999), certified in acupuncture (2002), and obtained a certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in 2017.
Carolyn received the YWCA Women of Distinction award (2004) and the distinguished Education Award from the OPA (2015). Carolyn was recently awarded the Medal of Distinction from the Canadian Physiotherapy Association in 2021 for her work in pelvic health and pain science.
Carolyn has been heavily involved in post-graduate pelvic health education, research in lumbopelvic pain, speaking at numerous international conferences and writing books and chapters for the past twenty years in pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science.