Vertigo and Balance Disorders in Children
Many congenitally deaf infants and children suffer vestibular failure, which produces problems with their postural control, locomotion, and gait. However it is known that these children can eventually catch up with their normal balance control status in terms of development and growth as a result of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tokyo :
Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Series: | Modern Otology and Neurotology
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1 History. 1.1 Flurent (France) 1.2 Ewald (Germany) 1.3 Magnus (Germany) 1.4 Andres-Thomas (France) 1.5 Tadashi Fukuda (Japan)
- 2 Basic Science. 2.1 Embryology of semicircular canal and otolithic organs 2.2 Developmental physiology of vestibular organs 2.3 Pathophysiology of vestibular organs 2.4 Blood brain barrier & Blood inner ear barrier
- 3 Evaluation. 3.1 Rotation chair 3.2 Caloric test 3.3 VEMP
- 4 Development of balance and motor function. 4.1 Development of balance and motor function 4.2 Postural control 4.3 Abnormal development of righting reflex postural control and balance
- 5 Clinical medicine –Disease of Vestibular organs. 5.1 Vertigo in infants and children 5.2 Meningitis 5.3 Intoxication 5.4 Inner ear malformation 5.5 Cochlear implant and related problems
- 6 Pediatric Neurology. 6.1 Benign paroxysmal vertigo 6.2 Cerebral plasy 6.3 Deafness gene or vestibular failure gene 6.4 Low birth weight 6.5 Chromosome aberration 6.6 Others.
