Vestibular disorders can be set off by an underlying illness such as chickenpox, allergies, immune reactions, benign tumors, or even exposure to chemicals. Structural issues, such as torn tissue ...

Treatment for various vestibular disorders includes medication, physical therapy and lifestyle changes to manage or reduce triggers. For Carabello, her diagnoses helped her find medications and ...

Vestibular dysfunction was shown to be a determinant of imbalance in Parkinson disease independent from visual and somatosensory processing changes and nigrostriatal dopaminergic losses.

Cawthorne-Cooksey exercises are vestibular training activities used to help those who experience balance disorders such as vertigo. The balance part of each ear works together by sending impulses ...

Dizziness is a common complaint after brain injury. When doctors hear, “I feel dizzy,” there is an immediate assumption of a vestibular system problem. However, patients may use the word ...

Vestibular thresholds begin to double every 10 years above the age of 40, ... the researchers suggest that vestibular dysfunction could be responsible for as many as 152,000 American deaths each year.

Altamira Therapeutics ("Altamira" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:CYTO), a company dedicated to developing therapeutics that address important unmet medical needs, today announced the publication of the ...

Objective Vestibular and visual dysfunction, including accommodation disorder, symptoms with vestibular ocular reflex (VOR) testing, or receded near point of convergence, are common following ...

Acute onset neurologic dysfunction; Unilateral (one sided) facial and/or vestibular nerve dysfunction or paralysis; Discharge—blood, purulent exudates, or spinal fluid—from the ear; ...

Doctors still don’t know what causes vestibular dysfunction or why it is so common. The vestibular system in the inner ear is made up of three semicircular canals and two otolith organs that ...

Shaleen Sulway, left, is a physiotherapist at the Hertz Clinic for Meniere's Disease and Vestibular Dysfunction at Toronto General Hospital. Tammy Spencer, right, is one of her patients.