Vestibular Assessment in Infant Cochlear Implant Candidates
Age-appropriate testing ensures the best outcomes and quality of life for CI candidates with abnormal balance and equilibrium function.
Age-appropriate testing ensures the best outcomes and quality of life for CI candidates with abnormal balance and equilibrium function.
The taskforce offered two important tips: (1) How to identify a patient who needs urgent evaluation, expedited evaluation, or one who could wait to be seen in clinic at a later date; and (2) How to evaluate a patient with dizziness using the virtual platform of telemedicine.
Approximately two-thirds of patients in this study (66.1%) self-reported visio-vestibular problems. Overall, 74.3% of patients had a visio-vestibular assessment at some point in their care and among these patients, 62.7% had identifiable deficits.
“Objective testing showed evidence of a balance disorder that affects the inner ear and a unique pattern of cognitive and behavioral dysfunction,” said Dr Michael E. Hoffer, professor of otolaryngology and neurological surgery. “This cluster of auditory and neurological symptoms, along with associated psychological issues, does not resemble more classic traumatic brain injury (TBI) based on our team’s vast experience in this area.”
Read MoreAccording to Judith Cooper, PhD—acting director of the NIDCD and director of the NIDCD Division of Scientific Programs who is quoted in the article—NIDCD research is primarily focused on identifying hearing loss genes; determining barriers to treatment and evaluating new “service delivery and screening models,” and the application of cochlear implant technology in the development of “other neural prostheses.”
Read MoreDesmond joins John Bakke, Bob Tysoe, Brian Taylor, and Suzanne Younker on the MDEmails™contributor team.
Read MoreThe study found that the players with the largest number of headers had the largest balance responses to GVS in both foot placement and hip adduction during the walking test, which indicated that they had vestibular processing and balance recovery problems.
Read MoreTeleaudiology becomes increasingly important as the evolution of healthcare to a reliance on electronic health records (EHRs) continues.
Read MoreThe text details the various tests that can be performed though rotational assessment, including the benefits and limitations of each. Test interpretation and clinical application of rotational outcome measures data are also discussed.
Read MoreThe text details the various tests that can be performed though rotational assessment, including the benefits and limitations of each. Test interpretation and clinical application of rotational outcome measures data are also discussed.
Read MoreThe measurement of subjective visual vertical (SVV) can serve as a diagnostic indicator of utricular otolith (dys)function, and involves an individual’s ability to adjust a vertical line to be parallel with gravity in the absence of visual cues.
Read MoreIn a first-of-its-kind study published in the March 1, 2017 edition of Molecular Therapy, researchers from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine showed that gene therapy was able to restore balance and hearing in genetically modified mice that mimic Usher syndrome.
Read MoreUsing a novel form of gene therapy, scientists from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital have managed to restore partial hearing and balance in mice born with a genetic condition that affects both. The new model reportedly overcomes a long-standing barrier to accessing hair cells which have been notoriously difficult to treat with previous gene-delivery techniques.
Read MoreNew balance mobility equipment on St. Augustine University’s Texas campus is the first to be easily accessible to patients in the Austin community who have balance problems from a stroke, spinal cord injury, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, or traumatic brain injury, as well as geriatric patients who are at risk for injury from falls.
Read MoreDr Desmond says fraudulent use of the billing code for rotational chair testing among providers who are not vestibular specialists led to Medicare making a coding change that reduced reimbursements to legitimate practitioners.
Read MoreAudiology Systems, a US distributor of GN Otometrics products and other leading audiology and vestibular equipment, has added the I-Portal® rotary chair by Neuro Kinetics Inc (NKI) to its portfolio of balance products.
Read MoreAudiology Systems recently hosted its 2016 Audiology Systems University. The 2-day course, introduced in 2015, is designed specifically for second- and third-year students who are currently enrolled and completing courses towards their AuD.
Read MoreGN Otometrics has announced FDA clearance of the Positional and Oculomotor test batteries for the ICS Impulse®. These two newly released modules, which are available from Audiology Systems, are designed to allow balance professionals to deliver dynamic positional tests as well as diagnose and treat Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV).
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