Ten Minutes Vestibular Examinations but Persistent Rehabilitative Exercises

Symposium on Neurology Highlight - S16Vertigo is a common illness that patients seek consultation in ENT clinics. Patients often have a hallucination of environmental rotation while patients with dizziness often have a sense of lightheadedness. This presentation will introduce some useful but succinct clinical examinations that medical practitioners can do in about 10 minutes to make initial diagnosis whether the vertigo has a peripheral or central cause before referring the patient for more sophisticated vertigo and vestibular assessments. Some latest technologies in assessing vestibular functions are also introduced. Vestibular or dizzy rehabilitative exercise should follow if permanent vestibular paresis is found. With unilateral vestibular lesions, asymmetry of tonic vestibulospinal activity may lead to postural and gait imbalance. With symmetrical vestibular loss, the imbalance will be more pronounced and persistent. This presentation introduces some vestibular or dizziness exercises that can be practised by the patients at home. These exercises try to provoke imbalance and dizziness but at the same time try to improve the brain to compensate for any abnormalities in the vestibular system and to retrain the brain to adapt and tolerate the information from the deficit vestibular apparatus. The exercises also train the visual and somatosensory systems to compensate and assist in balancing and reduce the sense of dizziness.published_or_final_versio

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The treatment of patients suffering from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo with oscillation

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Implantable bone-anchored hearing aids to solve hearing problems

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Advances in the management of hearing problems

The recent advances in the management of hearing problems are in three areas; firstly, early detection and diagnosis of hearing loss in children so that rehabilitation can be started whenever appropriate. Secondly, prostheses can be made from better tolerated material and employed for surgical reconstruction of the ossicular chain in the middle ear. Finally, the rehabilitation of those patients who have sensorineural problems can be enhanced by the programmable hearing aids. For the unfortunate patients who suffer from profound deafness, a cochlear implantation can be carried out to enable them to regain functional hearing.published_or_final_versio

Experience in cochlear implant at Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong Medical Centre

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