Millions of patients needlessly go without proper diagnosis and treatment each year. It is the authors’ hope that readers will become more interested in this topic and seek education and training in this often-perplexing condition.
The objectives of this study were to describe a potentially underappreciated pathology for post-traumatic persistent intractable dizziness and third window syndrome as well as the methods to diagnose and surgically manage this disorder.
The authors found that the type of sound was important when it comes to balance. More specifically, continuous background noise (usually static) was the most helpful for subjects to keep their center of gravity.
According 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.”
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Desmond joins John Bakke, Bob Tysoe, Brian Taylor, and Suzanne Younker on the MDEmails™contributor team.
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The 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.
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Teleaudiology becomes increasingly important as the evolution of healthcare to a reliance on electronic health records (EHRs) continues.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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In 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.
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Using 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.
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New 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.
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Dr 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.
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Audiology 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.
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Audiology 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.
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GN 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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Otometrics’ ICS Impulse for vestibular testing introduces a modular approach–starting with a base model that offers monocular video frenzel testing and lightweight goggles–that can be updated to include additional vestibular test modules.
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