Radiomics Can Predict Hearing Conditions in Vestibular Schwannoma Patients
A recent study demonstrates that radiomics imaging analysis can predict the hearing status of patients with vestibular schwannoma.
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Interacoustics Launches Third Generation of Micromedical VisualEyes
VisualEyes is an advanced VNG solution. According to Interacoustics, the new release offers many advantages such as objective torsional eye movement analysis, integrated VORTEQ sensor protocols, Saccadometry, and integrated EyeSeeCam vHIT.
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CILcare Partners with Vertidiag on Vestibular Solutions
Vertidiag is said to have developed a technical platform to induce controlled vestibular disorders and to measure their functional impacts. This platform uses behavioral pharmacology, along with a battery of cellular and molecular biology tools that support the understanding of the mechanisms of action of potential drug candidates.
Virtual Reality Technology Could Help Treat Balance Problems, New Study Says
Virtual Reality technology could become an efficient tool for older people with balance problems or for rehabilitation following injuries or illness that affect balance and movement.
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Medical Team Publishes Clinical Findings of Reported Balance Disorder in US Diplomats in Cuba
“Objective testing showed evidence of a balance disorder that affects the inner ear and a unique pattern of cognitive and behavioral dysfunction,” said Dr Michael E. Hoffer, professor of otolaryngology and neurological surgery. “This cluster of auditory and neurological symptoms, along with associated psychological issues, does not resemble more classic traumatic brain injury (TBI) based on our team’s vast experience in this area.”
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NIDCD’s Mission Focuses on Hearing and Balance Research
According to Judith Cooper, PhD—acting director of the NIDCD and director of the NIDCD Division of Scientific Programs who is quoted in the article—NIDCD research is primarily focused on identifying hearing loss genes; determining barriers to treatment and evaluating new “service delivery and screening models,” and the application of cochlear implant technology in the development of “other neural prostheses.”
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Clear Digital Media Adds Dr Alan Desmond as Contributing Writer for MDEmails
Desmond joins John Bakke, Bob Tysoe, Brian Taylor, and Suzanne Younker on the MDEmails™contributor team.
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Soccer Headers May Be Linked to Increase in Balance Problems
The study found that the players with the largest number of headers had the largest balance responses to GVS in both foot placement and hip adduction during the walking test, which indicated that they had vestibular processing and balance recovery problems.
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Connecting the Dots in the Digital Hearing Healthcare Landscape
Teleaudiology becomes increasingly important as the evolution of healthcare to a reliance on electronic health records (EHRs) continues.
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New Book Release ‘Rotational Vestibular Assessment’ Examines Advances in Testing
The text details the various tests that can be performed though rotational assessment, including the benefits and limitations of each. Test interpretation and clinical application of rotational outcome measures data are also discussed.
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New Book Release 'Rotational Vestibular Assessment' Examines Advances in Testing
The text details the various tests that can be performed though rotational assessment, including the benefits and limitations of each. Test interpretation and clinical application of rotational outcome measures data are also discussed.
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Subjective Visual Vertical (SVV) and the Dizzy Patient
The measurement of subjective visual vertical (SVV) can serve as a diagnostic indicator of utricular otolith (dys)function, and involves an individual’s ability to adjust a vertical line to be parallel with gravity in the absence of visual cues.
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Gene Therapy Used to Restore Hearing and Balance in Mice with Usher Syndrome
In a first-of-its-kind study published in the March 1, 2017 edition of Molecular Therapy, researchers from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine showed that gene therapy was able to restore balance and hearing in genetically modified mice that mimic Usher syndrome.
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Partial Hearing and Balance Restored in Deaf Mice Using New Gene-delivery Therapy
Using a novel form of gene therapy, scientists from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital have managed to restore partial hearing and balance in mice born with a genetic condition that affects both. The new model reportedly overcomes a long-standing barrier to accessing hair cells which have been notoriously difficult to treat with previous gene-delivery techniques.
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University Installs Balance Mobility Trainer to Reduce Risk of Falls
New balance mobility equipment on St. Augustine University’s Texas campus is the first to be easily accessible to patients in the Austin community who have balance problems from a stroke, spinal cord injury, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, or traumatic brain injury, as well as geriatric patients who are at risk for injury from falls.
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Blog Page: Vestibular Fraud and Its Consequences
Dr Desmond says fraudulent use of the billing code for rotational chair testing among providers who are not vestibular specialists led to Medicare making a coding change that reduced reimbursements to legitimate practitioners.
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Audiology Systems Adds I-Portal Rotary Chair to Balance Portfolio
Audiology Systems, a US distributor of GN Otometrics products and other leading audiology and vestibular equipment, has added the I-Portal® rotary chair by Neuro Kinetics Inc (NKI) to its portfolio of balance products.
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Audiology Systems Hosted Second Student Workshop
Audiology Systems recently hosted its 2016 Audiology Systems University. The 2-day course, introduced in 2015, is designed specifically for second- and third-year students who are currently enrolled and completing courses towards their AuD.
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