Balance Function Assessment and Management
Balance Function Assessment and Management
Book Details
Hardcover: 649 pages
Publisher: Plural Publishing Inc; 1 edition (December 15, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1597561002
ISBN-13: 978-1597561006.
Book Description
This book comprehensively covers the assessment and treatment of balance system impairments. Designed to be used in graduate programs in audiology, and by practicing audiologists, it is also appropriate 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, sample cases, and a final chapter, “Putting It All Together.”
