The Interactive Brain Imaging Course
Do You Ever Find Yourself Wondering:
❔There are so many images in the film bag – where do I start?
❔How do I find the important information quickly?
❔Isn’t the radiology report enough?
❔How do brain images change what I do in rehab?
❔Can brain images help me make sense of challenging patients/clients?
❔Can brain images give me information about recovery potential?
❔Can brain images provide data to help me advocate for my patients/clients?
Brain Images Allow You to Understand Your Patients/Clients Even Before Your See Them!
When you look at the brain images you’ll understand exactly:
- The anatomical location of the lesion
- The stage of the pathology
- The health of the brain
This means you, as a clinician, are able to:
- Choose the best assessment for each patient/client from day 1. This will make your assessments shorter and more targeted for the needs each patient/client.
- Deliver sharper and even more personalised treatments.
- Understand the potential for recovery and therefore set more realistic treatment goals.
- Use data from the images to support challenging clinical decisions.
Brain imaging knowledge and skills can help you answer the above questions.
In fact, as a rehab clinician, YOU can answer these questions. The radiologists are interested in the pathology and diagnosis, whereas you are interested in the rehabilitation. Therefore, the radiology reports don’t typically include information that can guide rehab.
Enrol in the “Brain Imaging for Rehabilitation Clinicians” Interactive Course to Learn How to Interpret the Brain Scans for Rehab Purposes
Update your clinical expertise and clinical reasoning with brain imaging knowledge that will increase your confidence in:
- selecting treatment approaches,
- optimising assessment and treatment time, and
- determining the potential for recovery.
This interactive course will provide you with a hands-on learning experience, that will increase your skills, knowledge and confidence in analysing brain images.
How Does Brain Imaging Training Change You as a Clinician?
What Will You Gain from The Course?
Understanding brain imaging isn’t an academic luxury, it’s a practical necessity in rehab. Radiology reports (diagnostic radiology) often miss the rehab-specific information you need for clinical decisions (clinical radiology).
In this course, you’ll learn how to extract that missing information and:
💡 Become confident opening the film bag, using a clear and simple system to interpret brain scans without feeling overwhelmed.
💡 Find rehab-specific insights quickly and reliably, even when the report is vague or lacking detail.
💡 Reduce your reliance on radiology reports, and spot possible missed lesions that matter for rehab.
💡 Gain a deeper understanding of your patient/client, especially when they can’t participate in therapy or communicate clearly.
💡 Link symptoms to specific lesion location, for the delivery of more targeted treatments, and confident estimation of recovery potential.
💡 Use data from brain imaging to enhance early conversations about treatment and discharge plan – even when the patient/client can’t participate in rehab fully.
💡 Save time and prioritise assessments and treatments based on rehab information from the brain images.
💡 Confidently communicate the best treatment approach and the rehab potential – to your team, patient/client, and their family.
💡 Gain the ability to give patients/clients realistic hopes that are personalised to their lesions.
💡 Become the go-to clinician in your team for imaging insights and meaningful conversations in complex cases.
The Interactive Brain Imaging Course:
The Benefits of the Interactive Brain Imaging Course
Insight and Decisive Action
Being able to extract valuable rehabilitation information from brain images, removes the uncertainty and guesswork from treatment decisions.
You’ll understand your clients better, why they present the way they do and what is their potential for recovery. Therefore data from brain imaging informs your choices, so that you can select the most effective treatment approach with confidence and precision.
This is especially important given the limited time clinicians have with their clients.
Early Rehab and Discharge Plans
With brain imaging knowledge you’ll have a deeper understanding of your clients and their conditions.
You’ll know the specific structures that are affected (and spared), and you’ll have more information for predicting the potential outcomes of your clients’ rehab journeys.
This enables you to deliver highly individualised and targeted treatment, for example 1000 reps may not necessarily be the best treatment approach for every challenge.
With brain imaging skills, clinicians can confidently answer tough questions about prognosis, even early on in the rehab journey.
By incorporating brain imaging data into their decision-making, clinicians can develop discharge plans that are data-driven, efficient, and achievable.
Become the Go-To Clinician
The brain imaging skills you’ll learn will enable you to draw on brain imaging data to justify your recommendations and observations to the rest of the team.
This will earn you the trust and respect of both your clients and colleagues. Your new brain imaging interpretation skills will make you the go-to person in your team, for solving complex cases and making informed decisions.
Who are the Clinicians Who Can Benefit From the Brain Imaging Course?
The interactive brain imaging course is designed for a wide range of rehabilitation clinicians and professionals, including:
- Neuropsychologist
- Clinical Psychologist
- Registered Nurses
- Occupational Therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Rehabilitation Registrars and Physicians
- Speech Pathologists
- Others
If you’re in any of these fields, my interactive course will boost your clinical practice and equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to use neuroradiology for delivering better neuro rehab care.
The multidisciplinary nature of this course has two important implications.
- The first is that the course is rich in inputs and perspectives of different disciplines.
- The second is that in the live sessions, you’ll work in multidisciplinary groups to problem solve clinical cases. This creates a true sense of team work … the same sort that every workplace would love!
How to Learn Brain Imaging for Rehabilitation Purposes?
To be able to use brain imaging for rehabilitation purposes, clinicians need to learn three sets of skills.
- Neuroanatomy
- Imaging techniques and
- Brain function
In the interactive brain imaging course I teach you these skills in a simple to follow manner with practical emphasis.
You’ll be able to take your weekly learning and apply it to your own patients.
This creates an impactful learning experience.
Your Brain Imaging Learning Path
What Do Trained Clinicians Say About the Interactive Brain Imaging Course?
Head to the Brain-Rehabilitation google page to find reviews from rehabilitation clinicians who have already learnt these skills and transformed their clinical practice.
About the Course
The course runs over 7 weeks, and during the course you will receive:
Five Brain Imaging Modules
Each module includes learning material: videos, quizzes, cheat sheets, resources, additional learning and lots of practical work. Clinicians enjoy receiving the material and going over it in their own pace. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to replay videos that you want to view again, and redo quizzes. On average clinicians take about 4 hrs to complete each module.
Seven Weekly Live Online Workshops
During the workshops I answer questions and you go through practical tasks in small groups. Clinicians enjoy the live workshops and say that those sessions play a key role in consolidating their learning. These sessions are centred around case studies (for relevance and practical learning).
They run on Wednesdays between 6:30-8:00pm Melbourne Australia Time. These sessions are recorded for later viewing.
Brain Imaging Course Certificate of Completion
Upon completing 100% of each course, you’ll receive a certificate of completion for 36 professional development hours.
Live Interactions and Personal Support During the Brain Imaging Course
I believe in providing you with extensive support during the course, because I want you to transform your clinical practice successfully. You’ll have access to me DIRECTLY for the duration of the course. Ask questions and get me to answer them personally! This level of personal teaching usually comes at a cost north of $10k.
Extended Access to Course Material
The first module of the course is available upon enrolment, so that you can start learning immediately and apply your learning to your patients.
Other modules will be released gradually, and the course material will be available until the end of the year.
Personal Course with Limited Spots
Due to the interactive nature of the courses and Ettie’s personal teaching style, the number of participants is limited.
Bonuses
Enrol in the “Brain Imaging for Rehabilitation Clinicians” course and receive:
Bonus 1 – A Brain Imaging Course Dedicated to a Specific Pathology
Different clinicians work with patients/clients who are affected by different pathologies. Personalise your learning and select one pathology-specific course. Learn how to extract rehab information from the unique scans and sequences used for each pathology:
- Brain Imaging for Strokes and Haemorrhages,
- Brain Imaging for Traumatic Brain Injuries,
- Brain Imaging for Brain Tumours,
- Brain Imaging for Neurodegeneration (including Dementia, Parkinson’s Plus, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus and Multiple Sclerosis), and
- Brain Imaging for Vestibular Dysfunction
Bonus 2 – “Brainstem and Cerebellar Lesions on Imaging” Course
Learn how to analyse brainstem and cerebellar lesions and their impact on function. This course will help you identify the potential for recovery in lesions often considered to have a poor prognosis.
Bonus 3 – “Lesion Chronicity” Course
Learn how to differentiate between recent and older lesions. This will help distinguish between pre-morbid and more recent symptoms. It’s an essential insight for considering the potential for recovery.
Bonus 4 – Exclusive Post-Course Access
When completing the course you’ll receive exclusive access to the next two meetings of our Brain Imaging Next Level group. This group of brain imaging-trained clinicians meets with Ettie every six weeks to discuss a challenging case.
Bonus 5 – Personal Brain Imaging Coaching
When completing the course you’ll have access to optional 1:1 personal coaching with Ettie at an affordable rate of $180 hr. This exclusive offer is only available to clinicians who completed the Brain Imaging for Rehabilitation Clinicians course.
Bonus 6 – Course Credits
Earn credits for previous learning – If you completed the Brian Imaging Essentials course, contact us to receive credit towards the Brain Imaging for Rehabilitation Clinicians course.
Your biggest hurdle is most likely your mindset – not believing that you can, or that you don’t know how to. Let’s be honest here, you probably weren’t taught how to look carefully at a film bag; let alone from the perspective of a rehabilitation clinician.
Why isn’t brain imaging taught adequately? There are many answers to this question, but let me talk about four:
Let me share with you some limitations of the radiology reports:
Diagnosis vs anatomical specificity
The radiologist’s role is to examine the brain scans and suggest the most likely diagnosis. To achieve this, they examine the pathological processes they see in brain images. The exact location and extent of the lesion is of secondary importance to the radiologist.
We, as rehabilitation clinicians, usually know the diagnosis of our clients. What we want to know, is how the diagnosis affects our client’s function. For this kind of insight, we need to know the exact location and extent of the lesion because it directly impacts their function.
If you examine the radiology reports carefully you will find that they rarely provide us with the anatomical specificity we need. For example, a radiology report may describe a lesion in the “MCA territory”. However, “MCA territory” doesn’t specify which parts of the lobes are affected, and sometimes not even whether the lesion is in the frontal / parietal or temporal lobes. This is important information because variations in anatomical loci of strokes, are one of the main reasons for the wide range of clinical presentations.
Lesion location – description vs picture
You know the saying “A picture is worth 1000 words”?
Well, it applies to brain images too. It is challenging to describe the exact location of a lesion using words (in the radiology report). It is much easier to appreciate the specific location and extent of the lesion if you look at the brain images themselves.
When you look at the images you can appreciate how far the lesion extends (superiorly – inferiorly, anteriorly – posteriorly and medially – laterally), and just as importantly, which anatomical structures are spared. This level of detail is missing from the radiology reports.
Radiology language and focus
Often rehabilitation clinicians don’t fully understand the radiology reports, because radiologists use their own vocabulary. We were not necessarily taught this vocabulary; therefore, we need to learn it to fully understand the radiology reports.
Furthermore, since radiologists are interested in the diagnosis, the reports focus on the pathological processes and differential diagnoses. This gives the neurologists direction for further tests, examinations and most importantly treatment options. However, this discussion may not be relevant to us, if we already know the diagnosis of our client.
In summary, we as rehabilitation clinicians need to look at the brain images, because we need to be clear about the exact location and extent of the lesions. Relying on the radiology reports is insufficient, because the reports may not have the degree of details we require.