Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a common form of scoliosis. As the name suggests, etiopathogenesis is not clearly defined, so treatment is still anchored in the musculoskeletal theory and correction/prevention of high Cobb angle values. This...
Background: The world’s age-related health concerns continue to rise. Audio-vestibular disorders, such as hearing loss, tinnitus, and vertigo, are common complaints in the elderly and are associated with social and public health burdens. Variou...
Background/Objectives: The line bisection task (LBT) is a well-known test in which a horizontal line is presented in front of the subject and the subject is asked to draw a mark vertically bisecting the line. We developed the new LBT using three-dime...
Background and Objectives: Idiopathic scoliosis (IS) has been conceptualized as a structural spinal deformity; emerging evidence suggests that postural control and vestibular mechanisms may contribute to curve development and functional severity. Thi...
An ongoing EU Horizon 2020 Project called BionicVEST is investigating the effect of constant electrical stimulation (ES) of the inferior vestibular nerve in patients with bilateral vestibular dysfunction (BVD). The evidence is that constant ES result...
As a predominately young, physically active, and generally healthy population, service members (SMs) with vestibular dysfunction (VD) following a TBI may not be accurately represented by the current civilian reference ranges on assessments of VD. Thi...
Background/Objectives: In-context learning enables large language models (LLMs) to perform clinical prediction without task-specific training; however, their performance on structured tabular data relative to conventional machine learning remains unc...
When vestibular function is lost, vestibular compensation works for the reacquisition of body balance. For the study of vestibular dysfunction and vestibular compensation, surgical or chemical labyrinthectomy has been performed in various animal spec...
Background and Clinical Significance: Vestibular disorders include a wide range of conditions with overlapping symptoms such as dizziness, vertigo and imbalance, often offering diagnostic challenges when distinguishing between peripheral and central...
Vertigo due to vestibular dysfunction is rare in children. The elucidation of its etiology will improve clinical management and the quality of life of patients. Genes for vestibular dysfunction were previously identified in patients with both hearing...
16 November 2022
(1) Objective: To determine the effect of a directed vestibular rehabilitation therapy (VRT) program with manual therapy (MT) on dizziness-related disability and imbalance symptoms among patients with peripheral unilateral vestibular dysfunction. (2)...
Background/Objectives: The aetiology of Bell’s palsy remains unclear and is typically diagnosed by exclusion. This study investigated the potential role of neurotropic viruses and explored the relationship between facial nerve impairment and ve...
Background: Sensory information obtained from the visual, somatosensory, and vestibular systems is responsible for regulating postural control, and if damage occurs in one or more of these sensory systems, postural control may be altered. Objective:...
Background: In the last few decades, a growing body of evidence has confirmed that vestibular rehabilitation (VR) can improve the symptoms of many unilateral and bilateral vestibular disorders, by facilitating vestibular compensation mechanisms, such...
(1) Background. Patients with bilateral vestibular disease (BVD) experience oscillopsia with a detriment to visual acuity (VA). This VA is driven mainly by the VOR that has two components: rotational and translational. VA can be tested by using dynam...
Background/Objectives: Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) and the video head impulse test (vHIT) enable receptor-specific assessment of otolithic organs and semicircular canals. Their increasing use has revealed selective or apparently iso...
Background/Objectives: The cochlea and vestibular organs develop concurrently during embryogenesis and share anatomical and functional pathways. As a result, congenital factors affecting the vestibulocochlear system may impair both hearing and vestib...
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by immune dysregulation, microvascular damage, and progressive fibrosis affecting multiple organs. While cardiopulmonary, renal, and gastrointestinal manifestati...
Background: Vestibular symptoms and objective vestibular dysfunction have been reported in patients with autoimmune and rheumatologic diseases, but available evidence remains fragmented and methodologically heterogeneous. Previous studies have often...
24 February 2021
(1) Objectives: The evaluation of dizzy patients is difficult due to nonspecific symptoms that require a multi-specialist approach. The Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) is widely used in the assessment of dizziness-related disability, but its clini...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the psychophysiological effects of functional neurology intervention on dysfunction in vestibular saccadic stimuli, focusing on its impact on muscle performance, psychophysiological arousal, and pain...
This exploratory observational study analyzed the neuropsychophysiological effects of Functional Neurology interventions on semicircular canal dysfunction, with a focus on enhancing neuromuscular responses and pain perception. A cohort of 45 healthy...
Alcohol use disorder is associated with substantial neurologic and systemic morbidity, but its relationship with audiovestibular dysfunction has not been clearly synthesized. This systematic review summarized human primary clinical evidence on audito...
Background/Objectives: Vestibular disorders can have functional consequences for children, including balance and gross motor delays, academic difficulties and behavioral manifestations; however, they are frequently undiagnosed in children. The purpos...
This study aims to assess oculomotor and vestibular endurance by utilizing the Oculomotor and Vestibular Endurance Screening (MoVES) assessment in athletes’ pre-season and post-season and after a suspected head injury to detect impairment. Athl...
Background/Objective: The Suppression Head Impulse Paradigm (SHIMP) is a specialized variant of the Head Impulse Test (HIT), designed to evaluate the suppression of the angular Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (aVOR) by central mechanisms. These mechanisms ar...
28 July 2026
Hearing-functioning problems contribute substantially to disability and rehabilitation needs globally; however, evidence describing the range and interconnected nature of these problems across African populations remains fragmented. This study aimed...
Although the inner ear is considered an immune-privileged organ because of the blood–labyrinth barrier, accumulating evidence has revealed an unexpected relation between Hashimoto’s disease and inner ear damage manifesting as audiovestibu...
Objectives: To characterize heterozygous pathogenic COCH variants in a French cohort with non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss (NSHL) and assess genotype–phenotype correlations in autosomal dominant NSHL (DFNA9). Setting: National Reference...
Sensory neural hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction have become the most common forms of sensory defects, affecting millions of people worldwide. Developing effective therapies to restore hearing loss is challenging, owing to the limited regenerat...
Vestibular dysfunction is a disturbance of the body’s balance system. The control of balance and gait has a particular influence on the quality of life. Currently, assessing patients with these problems is mainly subjective. New assessment opti...
Objectives: The present study aimed to analyze the psychophysiological and neuromuscular reflex modifications following a single functional neurology intervention in individuals presenting vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) cancellation dysfunction. Metho...
Neurological damage, a debilitating condition closely associated with chronic neuroinflammation, currently lacks disease-modifying treatments, with management limited to symptomatic relief. Vitamins B6 (VB6), B12 (VB12), and proteolipid protein 1 (PL...
Objective: Our aim was to determine the correlation between cognitive impairment and P300 event-related potential (ERP) in older adults with vertigo and imbalance, which further provides a reference for clinical diagnosis and patients’ rehabili...
The healthy function of the vestibular system (VS) is of vital importance for individuals to carry out their daily activities independently and safely. This study carries out Tsallis entropy (TE)-based analysis on insole force sensor data in order to...
Vestibular disorders significantly affect individuals by impairing balance, spatial orientation, and quality of life. Despite the focus on neuronal mechanisms, emerging research emphasizes the importance of neuroglia—astrocytes, microglia, olig...
Post-traumatic auditory and vestibular complaints are frequent after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and temporal bone trauma. They create particular difficulty in medico-legal practice because the evaluator must distinguish diagnosis, functional impact...
Background/Objectives: Dizziness is highly prevalent in patients with concussion, with a significant proportion of these patients experiencing visually induced dizziness (VID) in complex visual environments. As current diagnoses rely primarily on sub...
Oculomotor dysfunction is an eye movement disorder frequently experienced in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Many patients tend to experience visual symptoms, and this can exacerbate cognitive symptoms when visual tasks become more demanding...
While typical benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) presents with reproducible patterns of nystagmus and vertigo during positional testing, atypical variants often deviate from typical patterns, making diagnosis more complex. Recognizing atypic...
Cochlear implantation (CI) effectively restores hearing across the whole lifespan but may be followed by vestibular complaints, especially in adult recipients. The aim of this narrative review is to provide a comprehensive characterization of vestibu...
Research has implicated immune system inflammation as an underlying etiology of multi-symptom illnesses, and vitamin D has been shown to have a significant role in immune system function. In this retrospective review performed on the medical charts o...
Background/Objectives: Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) is a well-established hearing disorder in the pediatric population and is estimated to account for at least 10% of children with sensorineural hearing loss. Compared to auditory func...
Dizziness or vertigo can be caused by dysfunction of the vestibular or non-vestibular systems. The diagnosis, treatment, and mechanism of dizziness or vertigo caused by vestibular dysfunction have been described in detail. However, dizziness by the n...
Background/Objectives: Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is a genetic disorder characterized by sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and pigmentation anomalies. While hearing impairment is a well-established feature of WS, vestibular dysfunction is also reporte...
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a prevalent inflammatory disease traditionally defined and assessed by sinonasal symptoms such as nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, facial pressure, and olfactory dysfunction. However, the burden of CRS extends beyond the...
Background/Objectives: Cognitive impairment and vestibular dysfunction commonly co-occur in older adults and may share overlapping neuroanatomical pathways. Understanding their association may enhance the early identification of cognitive decline usi...
Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) is induced by preceding conditions that cause balance disorders. To investigate the association between vestibular function and preceding balance disorders in PPPD patients, a retrospective chart review...
Background/Objectives: Vestibular dysfunction is an important feature of cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS) associated with biallelic RFC1 expansions. This study aimed to characterize both quantitative and quali...
Background/Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of the angular vestibulo-ocular reflex (aVOR) function assessment in children with cerebral palsy (CP) using the video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) and to investigate how vestibular impai...
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