Vestibular Diagnostics/Tests cover a wide variety of measures of the vestibular or balance portion of the auditory system. After all of these measures are performed, a clearer understanding is attained regarding the location of abnormalities along the auditory pathway from the external ear to the top of the brain, and in particular, the auditory system's ability to maintain balance and prevent dizziness.
It involves a series of movements to relieve your Positional Vertigo.
In VHIT, we use an instrumented bedside technique to diagnose reduction in vestibular function in one ear vs. the other. An examiner abruptly accelerates and then decelerates the head, moving rapidly at high speed and then stopping it.
It is a neurophysiological assessment technique used to determine the function of the otolithic organs of the inner ear.
It provides an instrumented, objective, behavioral assessment of Vestibulo-Ocular reflex (VOR) function in response to rotational or functional head movement stimuli.