CONTEXT Hearing impairment is prevalent among the elderly population but commonly underdiagnosed. OBJECTIVE To review the accuracy and precision of bedside clinical maneuvers for diagnosing hearing impairment. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and EMBASE databases (1966 to April 2005) were searched for English-language articles related to screening for hearing impairment. STUDY SELECTION Original stud...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS We undertook this study to estimate the limits of agreement of repeated measures of static posturography on healthy adults and to assess the use of those limits on the interpretation of variations observed during vestibular rehabilitation of patients with chronic, peripheral vestibular disease. METHODS Twenty healthy adults and 30 vestibular patients accepted to participat...

BACKGROUND benefit and acclimatization. AIM to characterize the short-term benefits presented by adults, recent users of hearing aids, through objective (functional gain) and subjective (self-evaluation questionnaires) procedures. The possible occurrence of the phenomenon of acclimatization was also investigated based on the analysis of the speech recognition percent index (SRPI) before the f...

Introduction: Although vestibular rehabilitation therapy (VRT) methods are relatively popular in treating patients with body balance deficits of vestibular origin, only limited studies have been conducted into customized exercises for unilateral vestibular hypofunction (UVH). Furthermore, very little evidence is available on the outcomes of VRT in the elderly population with chronic UVH. Materi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Tinnitus is characterized as a perception of numerous auditory sounds in absence of external stimulus. Tinnitus can have a considerable consequence on a person's quality of life, and is considered to be very complicated to quantify. The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of Urdu translation of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) in Paki...

UNLABELLED Tinnitus can greatly impact an individual's life quality and it is very difficult to quantify. AIM To determine the reproducibility and validity of a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), a self-applicable questionnaire which assesses tinnitus impact on patient's life quality. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a prospective transversal study. The que...

Objective: The need for validated measures enabling clinicians to classify tinnitus patients according to the severity of tinnitus and screen the progress of therapies in our country led us to translate into Polish and to validate two tinnitus questionnaires, namely the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI). Design: The original English versions of the questi...

OBJECTIVE To generate an Arabic version of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), and to assess its reliability by applying it to a group of patients with vestibular disorders and control healthy subjects of Arabic origin. METHODS The Arabic version of the DHI was developed using the standard protocol for test translation. This pilot study was carried out between January 2009 and January 201...