Vertigo and Dizziness Rehabilitation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Introduction: Mechanics, Cybernetics and Synergetics of the Equilibrium System

   • Antonio Cesarani, Dario Alpini

   Pages 1-8

3. MCS Organization of the Equilibrium System

   • Antonio Cesarani, Dario Alpini

   Pages 9-47

4. Evaluation of the Patient Suffering Vertigo and Dizziness

   • Antonio Cesarani, Dario Alpini

   Pages 49-99

5. Treatment

   • Antonio Cesarani, Dario Alpini

   Pages 101-225

6. Back Matter

   Pages 227-243

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This volume opens a new frontier for clinical specialists dealing with vertigo sufferers. As our populations are constantly growing older, we have to deal more and more with degenerative neurosensorial disor­ ders of elderly persons not only from the investigative, but also from the innovative therapeutic point of view. This book's theme of vertigo and dizziness rehabilitation has been chosen in the sense of applied neurootometry and conservative neu­ roototherapy. The authors describe a new way of utilizing objective and quantitative neurosensorial equilibrium function measurements for special reprogramming and retraining purposes. In the field of diagnosis they place functional investigation of the equilibrium sys­ tem alongside the other classical techniques which mostly work through inspection and imaging. Consequently, the MCS method of treatment (mechanics, cybernetics, synergetics) has to take into ac­ count the basic knowledge on information transfer from the inner ear hair cells to the central nervous system in the regulating centers of the brainstem.

• brainstem
• ear
• management
• nervous system
• rehabilitation
• vertigo

• Institute of Otolaryngology, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

  Antonio Cesarani

• Centro Medico Sociale “S. Maria Nascente”, Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Milan, Italy

  Dario Alpini

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