Dr. Gans Posts Archives - The American Institute of Balance ®

Fall Risk Management in Audiology and ENT Practice: The Role of Cognitive, Vestibular, and Auditory Function

Published on: February 24, 2023

Patient Care // Fall Risk Management | March 2023 Hearing Review There is significant multidisciplinary interest in modifying risk factors for falling in the population of older adults. By Joseph […]

Part 3 – Audiovestibular Migraine What Audiologists and ENTs Need to Know in 2022 for Expanding Patient Care

Published on: December 13, 2022

Tech Topic | December 2022 Hearing Review Millions of patients needlessly go without proper diagnosis and treatment each year. It is the authors’ hope that readers will become more interested […]

Part 2 – Audiovestibular Symptoms Related to Migraine – What Audiologists and ENTs Need to Know in 2022 for Expanding Patient Care

Published on: November 7, 2022

Tech Topic | November 2022 Hearing Review One of the greatest challenges in the evaluation and management of patients with migraine is the diversity in the presentation of symptoms among […]

Part 1 – Audiovestibular Symptoms Related to Migraine – What Audiologists and ENTs Need to Know In 2022 For Expanding Patient Care

Published on: October 14, 2022

Patient Care | October 2022 Hearing Review Migraine affects nearly 40 million individuals in the United States, more than asthma and diabetes combined. Most will have dizziness, vertigo, misophonia, and […]

Gans repositioning maneuver for the posterior canal BPPV patients: systematic review and meta‑analysis

Published on: April 25, 2022

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Published: April 6, 2022 Authors Deepika Joshi1 · Vyom Gyanpuri2 · Abhishek Pathak1 · Rameshwar Nath Chaurasia1 · Vijay Nath Mishra1 · Anand Kumar1 · Varun […]

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 […]

Video-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 […]

VIDEO 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 […]

VIDEO 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 […]

VIDEO – 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 […]

VIDEO: 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 […]

CASE 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 […]