DIZZINESS, IMBALANCE AND HEARING DISORDERS
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Dizziness -- broadly
- An overview of dizziness
- Evaluation of the dizzy patient (for clinicians)
- Dizziness in groups
- Unlocalized dizziness and ataxia
Dizziness or vertigo caused by inner ear problems
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
- Meniere's Disease
- Epidemiology (distribution in the population)
- Causes
- diet
- last_resort treatment
- Alternative Treatments, placebo treatments.
- Infections
- Bilateral Vestibular Loss (including Gentamicin toxicity)
- Pressure Sensitivity
- Tumors and other masses
- Microvascular compression syndrome
- Utricular Dysfunction
Dizziness caused by Neurological Problems
- Basilar invagination
- Brainstem strokes (pathophysiology and presentation)
- B12 deficiency
- Cerebellar degenerations
- Cervical vertigo
- Chiari Malformation
- Epilepsy
- Lithium toxicity.
- Low CSF pressure
- Mal de debarquement (MDD)
- Migraine associated vertigo
- Motion sickness
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Parkinsonism and related disorders
- Periventricular white matter lesions
- Primary Orthostatic Tremor (POT)
- Oculopalatal myoclonus
- Opsoclonus
- Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack (diagnosis and treatment)
Dizziness caused by low blood pressure, medication, intoxications, or chemicals
- Alcohol intoxication
- autonomic neuropathy
- Medication induced dizziness
- Orthostatic Hypotension
- Positional orthostatic tachycardia (POTS)
- Solvents
- Syncope
Hearing problems
- Hearing loss (general discussion)
- Autoimmune inner ear disease
- Auditory neuropathy and carbon monoxide hearing loss
- Acoustic Neuroma, cholesteatoma and Glomus tumor (see tumors page for others)
- Conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, noise induced hearing loss, central hearing loss, and presbyacusis (age related)
- Low frequency sensorineural hearing loss and cookie-bite hearing loss
- Menieres Disease
- Otosclerosis
- Otitis media and Otitis externa
- Sudden hearing loss and Progressive bilateral hearing loss
- Superficial siderosis
- Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
- Ear Wax
- Dry or itchy ears
Miscellaneous -- mainly situational or particular symptoms of dizziness
- Postraumatic syndromes
- airbag deployment
- Concussion
- Havana syndrome
- Inversion tables
- Lightning and electrical injuries
- Post-traumatic hearing loss
- Post-traumatic Vertigo
- Postpartum (pregnancy related) vertigo
- PPPD (Persistent postural perceptual dizziness, a functional dizziness)
- Radiation to ear
- whiplash
- Events or disorders with a tenuous connection to dizziness
- Dizziness associated with various activities
- Symptoms
- Rocking
- Drop attacks
- Fluctuations
- Inversion illusions and Palinopsia (repeated images)
- Room tilt illusions
Treatment of Vertigo
- Medical treatment
- For inner ear disorders (such as vestibular neuritis or Meniere's)
- For central disorders (such as stroke or brain tumor)
- Surgical Treatment (general -- there are a few operations)
- Tai Chi for balance
- Vestibular Rehabilitation
Practice related material for the dizzy clinician
- Bedside recording of eye movements
- Drug treatment of dizziness
- Evaluation of the dizzy patient
- Eye movement testing
History of otoneurology
Temporal bone donations
Acknowledgements.
- This is a big site and while Dr. Hain has done most of the work, there have been many other contributors to this material over the years. Many of the graphics were originally funded by an NIH educational center grant to Northwestern University in the 90's. For persons in the USA, here is your tax dollar at work !