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Balance Function Assessment and Management
Balance Function Assessment and Management Author:Gary Jacobson, Neil Shepard Balance Function Assessment and Management, now in its second edition, continues to comprehensively cover the assessment and treatment of balance system impairments with contributions from the best experts in the area of dizziness and vertigo. Designed to be used in graduate programs in audiology, and by practicing audiologists, it is also appro... more »priate for those in the fields of physical therapy, otolaryngology, and neurology. Assessment chapters address ocular motility testing, positional/positioning testing, caloric testing, rotational testing, computerized dynamic posturography, and vestibular evoked potentials. Treatment chapters cover non-medical, medical, and surgical treatment of dizziness and vertigo, vestibular rehabilitation and assessment of and intervention for falls risk. Additionally, the book provides background information on the vestibular and ocular motor systems with sample cases. New chapters to the second edition include:
Ontogeny of the vestibular and balance systems Effects of peripheral impairments on the Vestibulo-ocular and spinal reflexes Video head impulse test Mechanisms and physiology of balance Electrocochleography A chapter dedicated to pediatric vestibular and balance assessment A chapter discussing the effects of age on our vestibular and balance system« less