Virtual Reality & Vestibular Rehabilitation: Will A New Technology Improve Outcomes?
Published on: April 7, 2019
Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) has long been recognized as the gold standard in the non-medical management of patients with chronic non-compensated vestibulopathy. The functional manifestations may be comprised of one […]
Read MoreVideo-Case Study Pediatric Migraine – Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo of Childhood/Infancy
Published on: August 15, 2017
According to the International Headache Society (IHC, 2014), pediatric migraine and specifically BPV of Childhood is classified as one of the six (6) categories of migraine. Most prevalent onset between […]
Read MoreVIDEO CASE STUDY: Biomechanics of Gans Repositioning Maneuver (GRM) for a Little Person with bilateral PC-BPPV
Published on: August 18, 2015
BPPV is among the most common causes of vertigo for children and adults. Canalith Repositioning Maneuvers (CRM) utilizing Epley, Gans or Semont methods or modifications have shown to be highly […]
Read MoreVIDEO CASE STUDY: cVEMP- Best Test for Infants
Published on: July 22, 2015
By age 3-4 months, infant’s neck musculature is typically strong enough to provide sufficient support to allow for reliable use of cervical Vestibular Myogenic Potentials, (cVEMP). A question may be […]
Read MoreVIDEO – CASE STUDY: Gans Repositioning Maneuver (GRM): Treatment of Bilateral PC-BPPV Post Head Trauma
Published on: June 24, 2015
Head trauma with or without concussion is a well-known cause of BPPV in both children and adults. More importantly, BPPV secondary to head trauma has been associated with increased bilateral […]
Read MoreVIDEO: CASE STUDY – Treatment of sub-clinical HC-BPPV in a 15 year-old male post basilar skull fracture and concussion
Published on: May 4, 2015
The literature and this author has presented extensively on the incidence of BPPV post head trauma in children and adults, with and without concussion. Trauma induced BPPV tends to be […]
Read MoreCASE STUDY: Home-based Vestibular Rehabilitation (VRT) Program: Measuring Outcomes with vHIT and Dynamic Visual Acuity Tests
Published on: March 11, 2015
Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) is well established as the gold standard for the non-medical management of chronic non-compensated unilateral vestibulopathy secondary to acute onset otologic conditions or vestibular migraine. The […]
Read MoreVIDEO: Video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) with Children
Published on: February 5, 2015
The vHIT is easily and reliably performed with children. Vestibular evaluation of children can often be somewhat complicated if the practitioner does not have access to a rotary chair or […]
Read MoreVIDEO- Video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) Has High Diagnostic Sensitivity and Provides VRT Outcome Validation
Published on: December 18, 2014
Clinicians and therapists have historically been limited by the constraints of caloric testing, which is a very poor indicator of comprehensive VOR function due to its testing of only […]
Read MoreVIDEO: VRT with Diagnosis Based Strategies using Hybrid Protocols
Published on: December 4, 2014
Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) is recognized as the gold standard for the non-medical, non-surgical management of this often-debilitating condition. Its usefulness has been demonstrated with children to adults, military pilots, […]
Read MoreVIDEO: Basilar Invagination in Osteogenesis Imperfecta or BPPV ?
Published on: October 28, 2014
This charming 14 year-old female with Osteotogenesis Imperfecta (OI), who is pre-pubescent, has a radiographically confirmed basilar invagination for many years. In addition, she has experienced over 50 fractures related […]
Read MoreVIDEO: Horizontal Canal BPPV (HC-BPPV)- Contraindication to Self Treatment
Published on: October 14, 2014
The incidence of Horizontal Canal (HC) involvement in our 20 years of experience treating almost 11,000 BPPV cases has been its association either with a migration during a CRM treatment, […]
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