Overview

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."

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Reviews

• Linda Jacobs-Condit, AuD, CCC-A (George Washington University), Doody's Review Service, (2009):
  "Up to date and useful as a reference for students as well as practicing clinicians in audiology, otology, physical therapy, neurology."

• John E. King (Medical University of South Carolina), Ear & Hearing, (2008):
  "Despite the number of contributors, the text flows seamlessly as uniformity has been maintained in presentation style and language. ... A must-have for those who truly want to explore and understand the clinical realm of the vestibular system. ... This text offers something for everyone from the novice to the expert nearing retirement."

Audience

Primary Subject: Audiology / Vestibular Rehabilitation
Audience Level: Professional/Textbook - Desk Copy

• I. Background.
  • Practical Anatomy and Physiology of the Vestibular System
    Michael Schubert, Ph.D. and Neil Shepard, Ph.D.
  • Practical Anatomy and Physiology of the Ocular Motor System
    Timothy C. Hain, M.D. and Heather Rudisill, Au.D.
  • Eye movement recording techniques
    Gary P. Jacobson, PhD, Neil T. Shepard, Phd, J. Andrew Dundas, Devin L. McCaslin, and Erin G. Piker, BS
• II. Assessment.
  • The Vertigo Case History
    Marc Bennett, M.D.
  • The Bedside Assessment of the Vestibular System
    Devin L. McCaslin, Ph.D., J. Andrew Dundas, M.A., Gary P. Jacobson, Ph.D.
  • Assessing Dizziness-Related Quality of Life
    Gary P. Jacobson, Ph.D., Craig W. Newman, Ph.D.
  • Ocular Motility Testing: Techniques
    Neil T. Shepard, Ph.D. and Michael Schubert, Ph.D.
  • Ocular Motility Testing: Interpretation and utilization
    Neil T. Shepard, Ph.D. and Michael Schubert, Ph.D.
  • Technique, Interpretation and Usefulness of Positional/Positioning Testing
    Richard A. Roberts, Ph.D., Richard E. Gans, Ph.D. Background and Technique of Caloric Testing – Kamran Barin, Ph.D.
  • Interpretation and Usefulness of Caloric Testing
    Kamran Barin, Ph.D.
  • Background and Introduction to Whole Body Rotational Testing
    Robert Brey, Ph.D., James L. McPherson, M.S., Robert M. Lynch, B.S.E.
  • Technique, Interpretation and Usefulness of Whole Body Rotational Testing
    Robert Brey, Ph.D., James L. McPherson, M.S., Robert M. Lynch, B.S.E.
  • Active Head Rotation Testing (i.e. Vestibular Autorotation Testing)
    Dennis P. O’Leary, Ph.D., Linda L. Davis, RN, B.A.
  • Background and Technique of Computerized Dynamic Posturography (including practical biomechanics and physiology of balance)
    Neil Shepard, Ph.D. and Kristen Janky, Au.D.
  • Interpretation and Usefulness of Computerized Dynamic Posturography
    Neil Shepard, Ph.D.and Kristen Janky
  • Vestibular Sensory Evoked Potentials
    Sherri M. Jones, Ph.D.
  • Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials
    Faith W. Akin, Ph.D., Owen D. Murnane, Ph.D.
  • Tests of otolith function and of vestibular perception
    Adolfo M. Bronstein, M.D., Ph.D.
• III. Treatment (7 chapters).
  • Non-Medical/Surgical Treatment of Positional Vertigo
    Richard A. Roberts, Ph.D. and Richard E. Gans, Ph.D.
  • Medical Treatment of Vertigo that is Otologic in Origin
    Steven Telian, M.D., Mark Wiet, M.D.
  • Surgical Management of Vertigo that is Otologic in Origin
    Steven Telian, M.D., Mark Wiet, M.D.
  • Neurological Origins of Dizziness and Vertigo
    Nabih M. Ramadan, M.D., F.A.A.N.
  • Psychiatric Origins of Dizziness and Vertigo
    Jeffery P. Staab, M.D, M.S.
  • Vestibular Rehabilitation
    Susan L. Whitney, Ph.D., PT, NCS, FAPTA, and Joseph Furman, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Assessment of Falls Risk in the Elderly
    Gary P. Jacobson, Ph.D., Devin L. McCaslin, Ph.D.
• IV. Sample Cases.
  • Within and Between Measure Relationships Between Balance – Illustrative Cases.
    Gary P. Jacobson, Ph.D., Devin L. McCaslin, Ph.D, Sarah L. Grantham, Au.D.

About The Authors

Gary Jacobson, Ph.D.

Dr. Gary Jacobson is Professor and Director of the Division of Audiology at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Prior to this he was the Director of the Division of Audiology, and Adjunct Staff in the Department of Neurology for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan.

He completed his undergraduate studies at California State University at Fullerton. He received his M.S. in Communicative Disorders (Audiology) at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and received has Ph.D. from Kent State University. He served as the Chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Section (Neurology Service) at the VA Medical Center in Cincinnati from 1979-1988. During that time he served as both Director of the Evoked Potentials Laboratory and, Director of the Intraoperative Monitoring Program for the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dr. Jacobson is a Past President of the American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring, and has served on the Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Directors of the American Tinnitus Association. He is the past-editor of The American Journal of Audiology (American Speech-Language Hearing Association) and a past Assistant Editor (Evoked Potentials) for The Journal of the American Academy of Audiology (American Academy of Audiology). He is an Editorial Board member for the journals Brain Topography and Seminars in Hearing. He is an Ad Hoc reviewer for 10 other scientific journals. He has authored and co-authored over 100 publications that cover the areas of tinnitus, dizziness, auditory function, outcome measures development, brain mapping and intraoperative neurophysiology. He is co-editor of the text Handbook of Balance Function Testing. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, and a recipient of the Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology from the American Academy of Audiology.

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Neil Shepard, Ph.D.

Dr. Neil Shepard, is Director of the Dizziness and Balance Disorders Program at Mayo Clinic – Rochester and Professor of Audiology in the Mayo Clinical School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate and masters training in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from University of Kentucky and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his PhD in auditory electrophysiology and clinical audiology from the University of Iowa in 1979. He has specialized in clinical electrophysiology for both the auditory and vestibular systems. Activity over the last 27 years has concentrated on the clinical assessment and rehabilitation of balance disorder patients and clinical research endeavors related to both assessment and rehabilitation.

Contributors

Adolfo Bronstein, M.D., Ph.D.

Craig Newman, PhD

Dennis O’Leary, Ph.D.

Devin McCaslin, Ph.D.

Erin Piker, BS

Faith Akin, Ph.D.

Heather Rudisill, Au.D.

J. Andrew Dundas, M.A.

James McPherson, M.S.

Jeffery Staab, M.D., M.S.

Joseph Furman, M.D., Ph.D.

Kamran Barin, Ph.D.

Kristen Janky, Au.D.

Linda Davis, B.A.

Marc Bennett, M.D.

Mark Wiet, M.D.

Michael Schubert, Ph.D.

Nabih Ramadan, M.D.

Owen Murnane, Ph.D.

Richard Gans, Ph.D.

Richard Roberts, Ph.D.

Robert Brey, Ph.D.

Robert Lynch, B.S.E.

Sarah Grantham, Au.D.

Sherri Jones, Ph.D.

Steven Telian, M.D.

Susan Whitney, Ph.D.

Timothy Hain, M.D.

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