BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) often requires patients to devote their time to complete the questionnaire than they expect. Given that it limits the effectiveness of THI in a busy clinical practice that desires a quick and easy assessment of tinnitus handicap, this study evaluated clinical usefulness of a Simplified version of Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI-S)...

Introducción y objetivo: La presencia de trastornos la personalidad en pacientes con vértigo ha sido referenciada diferentes trabajos. Las conexiones del sistema vestibular el procesamiento emociones es causa que apoya dicha asociación. rehabilitación se perfila como tratamiento para crónico no compensado, pero suscita duda si será suficiente por sola o debe acompañarse otras terapias dirigidas...

Background: Dizziness adversely affects an individual?s well-being. However, its impact is not only influenced by its physical manifestations, but also by its subjective importance to the patient. Appropriately assessing the subjective burden of dizziness is difficult. The Pictorial-Representation of Illnessand Self-Measure (PRISM), on which patients illustrate the distance between their ‘self?...

BACKGROUND Dizziness and comorbid anxiety may cause severe disability of patients with vestibulopathy, but can be addressed effectively with rehabilitation. For an individually adapted treatment, a structured assessment is needed. The Vertigo Symptom Scale (VSS) with two subscales assessing vertigo symptoms (VSS-VER) and associated symptoms (VSS-AA) might be used for this purpose. As there was ...

BACKGROUND Mal de debarquement syndrome is a medically refractory disorder characterized by chronic rocking dizziness that occurs after exposure to passive motion. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can acutely suppress the rocking dizziness but treatment options that extend the benefit of rTMS are needed. OBJECTIVES 1) To determine whether transcranial direct current stimula...

The aim of this study was to determine the validity of the Italian translation of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) by Newman et al. in order to make this self-report measure of perceived tinnitus handicap available both for clinical and research purposes in our country and to contribute to its cross-cultural validation as a self-report measure of perceived severity of tinnitus. The Italian...

INTRODUCTION Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness is the dizziness that lasts for over three months with no clinical explanation for its persistence. The patient's motor response pattern presents changes and most patients manifest significant anxiety. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical characteristics of patients with persistent postural and perceptual dizziness. METHODS statistical ana...

RESUMO Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo caracterizar o efeito da reabilitação vestibular (RV) sobre ganho do reflexo vestíbulo-ocular (RVO), a ocorrência das sacadas compensatórias, bem equilíbrio corporal e qualidade de vida, em três pacientes com hipofunção periférica. Trata-se um estudo descritivo. Participaram gênero feminino, duas 55 anos uma 67 anos, diagnóstico médico disfunção As partic...

INTRODUCTION Previous reports indicated that middle ear surgery might partially improve tinnitus after surgery. However, until now, no influencing factor has been determined for tinnitus outcome after middle ear surgery. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between preoperative air-bone gap and tinnitus outcome after tympanoplasty type I. METHODS Seventy-fi...