Background: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common cause of vertigo and nystagmus in clinics. Vertigo has many causes and the recurrence of vertigo is unknown. Among a lot of factors, vitamin D deficiency is more important. This study was conducted to determine the effect of vitamin D supplementation on torsional nystagmus in BPPV patients. This study wants to show the d...

Afferent cervical somatosensory input may substitute for absent vestibular information as part of central vestibular compensation after unilateral peripheral vestibular deficit. In order to determine the particular contribution of neck muscle spindles to the perception of body orientation and to the oculomotor system, we measured (i) the subjective visual straight ahead (SVA) by psychophysical ...

BACKGROUND Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) have been recorded from the sternocleidomastoid muscle (cervical VEMP or cVEMP) and more recently from the eye muscles (ocular VEMP or oVEMP) in response to air conduction and bone conduction stimuli. Both cVEMPs and oVEMPs are mediated by the otoliths and thereby provide diagnostic information that is complementary to videonystagmography...

1 Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. R ecently, clinical vestibular tests have been developed for assessing otolith function. Little is known about treatment for otolith dysfunction, and this case report offers a perspective on using otolith stimulation to treat vestibular loss. A 62-year-old man underwent a left vestibu...

We present a case of torsional saccadic oscillations and discuss the possible underlying neuroanatomical substrate. Correspondence to: Marcello Cherchi, M.D., Ph.D., Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Abbott Hall, 11th Floor, 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611-3078, USA, Tel: 312-908-8266; E-mail: [email protected] Received...

Vertigo and postural instability following whiplash and/or minor head injuries is very frequent. According to some authors, post-whiplash vertigo cannot be caused by real injury to vestibular structures; other authors maintain that vestibular damage is possible even in the case of isolated whiplash, with vascular or post-traumatic involvement. Furthermore, many of the balance disorders reported...

Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is a leading non-genetic cause of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and an important neurodevelopmental delay.1,2 Vestibular hypofunction can result in gross motor delay, hypotonia, postural instability, lack spatial awareness. physiotherapy safety advice may be indicated. Studies have shown vestibular impairment to common children with cCMV, both those with, w...

Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of otolith abnormal migration following canalith repositioning procedures(CRPs) for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) patients. The diagnosis, treatment and prevention approaches are also discussed. Methods Totally 356 cases of unilateral BPPV patients were treated by CRPs between January, 2010 and December, 2015. Otolith abnormal ...