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Le vertigini iatrogene
No full textAbstract Vertigo, instability, hypoacusia and tinnitus are frequently consequences of otologic therapeutic procedures. Many otosurgeries, like stapedotomy, cochlear implants, tympanoplasty, maxillo-facial surgeries cause vertigo, dizziness and instability due to direct or indirect trauma. Similarly many medicines are ototoxic like for example amynoglicoside antibiotics, diuretics, anti-inflammatory, radiotherapy, anesthesiae. Rarely vertigo is a therapeutic marker
Postural control and risk of folling in bipodalic and monopodalic stabilometric tests of health subiects before, after visuo-proprioceptive vestibulo-postural rehabilitation and at 3 months thereafter: role of the proprioceptive system
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Cinetosi e Mal di Spazio
No full textAbstract Motion sickness is a malaise caused by particular condition of body movement in relation to the environment. This movement can be real or apparent. The triggering factors of motion sickness are body movements and accelerations. The incidence of the disease varies in relation to the environment and in relation to the sex of the subject; seasick has an incidence of 62% with a ratio women/man of 5:3. The motion sickness symptoms can be both psychic and neurovegetative. In the first case they cause the mental psychic syndrome, and in the second one the nausea vomiting syndrome. The two syndromes often can occur at the same time. Therapy consist of anticholinergic antidopaminergic antihistamine antiserotoninergici and in specific counseling for all patients expose to external impulses
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