The Effect of Computerized Vestibular Function Assessment and Training System Combined With Cognitive/Motor...
Vestibular Function DisorderCognitive Decline2 moreThis study aims to investigate the effect of computerized vestibular function assessment and interactive training system, combined with cognitive/motor dual-task for the elderly with dizziness. The investigators will compare the movement abilities among older adults with different cognitive level, and further establish an assessment module that can evaluate participants' dual-task performance in both vestibular and cognitive tasks. Finally, leveraging the advantages of sensor detection technology and computerized feedback, an appropriate dual-task rehabilitation approach for vestibular function and cognition will be developed.
Checklists Resuscitation Emergency Department
Shortness of BreathChest Pain20 moreThe study will systematically evaluate how an emergency manual-a collection of checklists and fact sheets-affects the performance of resuscitation teams during the management of priority one patients in an emergency department.
New Rehabilitation Protocol for Patients With PPPD
RehabilitationBalance2 moreThe investigators will test a new rehabilitation protocol on patients with persistent postural perceptual dizziness (PPPD). The investigators hypothesize that patients with PPPD, in the absence of vestibular deficits, do not benefit from standard vestibular rehabilitation but instead need a rehabilitation that acts on visual and postural stability, through training of saccadic movements in dynamic contexts of cognitive-motor dual-task and rehabilitation of postural stability.
Advancing Understanding of Transportation Options
Diabetic RetinopathyMacular Degeneration30 moreThis Stage II randomized, controlled, longitudinal trial seeks to assess the acceptability, feasibility, and effects of a driving decision aid use among geriatric patients and providers. This multi-site trial will (1) test the driving decision aid (DDA) in improving decision making and quality (knowledge, decision conflict, values concordance and behavior intent); and (2) determine its effects on specific subpopulations of older drivers (stratified for cognitive function, decisional capacity, and attitudinally readiness for a mobility transition). The overarching hypotheses are that the DDA will help older adults make high-quality decisions, which will mitigate the negative psychosocial impacts of driving reduction, and that optimal DDA use will target certain populations and settings.
The SaVe Project-Sarcopenia and Vertigo in Aging Patients With Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal CancerOncologic Complications20 moreThe goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the cause of dizziness and decline in walking ability in in older adults ≥65 years during chemotherapy treatment for colorectal cancer. Another goal is to investigate if a comprehensive geriatric assessment and three months' specialized physical group-based exercise three times/week can counteract muscle weakness, vertigo, instability, impaired walking balance, and neuropathy
Analysis of Vestibular Compensation Following Clinical Intervention for Vestibular Schwannoma
MigraineVestibular Migraine4 moreMultiple sensory cues are typically generated by discrete events, and while they do not reach the cerebrum simultaneously, the brain can bind them temporally if they are interpreted as corresponding to a single event. The temporal binding of vestibular and non-vestibular sensory cues is poorly understood and has not been studied in detail, despite the fact that the vestibular system operates in an inherently multimodal environment. In this study, the researchers are investigating the physiology and pathophysiology of vestibular temporal binding by studying normal subjects, patients with peripheral and central vestibular dysfunction, and patients with vestibular and cochlear signals provided by prosthetic implants in the inner ear.
Efficacy of a Transcranial Vibrating System for Mitigation of Migraine Associated Vertigo
DizzinessNausea2 moreVertigo is among the most common symptoms associated with migraine and affects 26.5% of migraine sufferers, leading to a dramatic impact in life limiting even the most simple activities. A new device, the OtoBand, a transcranial vibrating system, has been shown to mitigate and sometimes prevent vertigo and nausea in healthy subjects. The current study aims to determine if the Otoband can treat or reduce symptoms of Migraine Associated Vertigo (MAV).
Dynamic Neck Function During Gait in Patients With Dizziness
DizzinessNeck Pain1 moreThis study aims to explore the possible association between dizziness and head-on trunk-movements and thus, neck movement and if this differs to healthy controls. Additional, the study will examine the reliability and validity of using wearable accelerometers to examine how the head moves relative to the trunk and to collect normative data on head on trunk movement.
Validation of a Simultaneous Ocular/Cervical VEMP With Mastoid Vibration by B250
VertigoA Validation study in which the standard separate cVEMP and oVEMP will be compared with a new protocol in which the cVEMP and oVEMP can be recorded simultaneously in response to a mastoid vibration by bone transducer B250
Correlation MRI - Paraclinical Examination in Sudden Deafness Associated With Vertigo
Vertigo LabyrinthineAcute cochleo-vestibular syndrome or labyrinthitis is characterized clinically by the sudden appearance of a great rotatory vertigo and a unilateral sensorineural hearing loss. In this clinical context, MRI is the examination to eliminate differential diagnoses and to make a positive diagnosis of labyrinthitis (supposedly infectious, immunologic or ischemic). The etiologies described are ischemic, infectious or autoimmune, so the risk factors are very variable (cardiovascular, autoimmune or infectious). Labyrinthitis has been little studied as a clinical entity in its own right. Indeed, studies mainly focus on sudden deafness with subgroups of patients with vertigo. The incidence of sudden deafness is of the order of 5 to 20 per 100,000 people per year but is probably under-diagnosed. The individual and medico-economic consequences are similar to those of hearing loss, with an increased risk of dementia, depression, premature death and an increase in health care consumption.