Abstract
Stabilometry is commonly implemented in the clinical treatment of vertigo, but conventional methods are not always satisfactory for detecting abnormalities. Accordingly, 70 patients, who presented at Kurume University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology with the chief complaint of vertigo, received stabilometry after first undergoing either head shaking or altering the body position, in order to determine whether preparing the patients in such a manner improves the efficacy of detecting abnormalities.
The discovery of an imbalance increases after head shaking and altering the body position in Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo patients, after only head shaking in Meniere disease patients (with head shaking nystagmus) and after only altering the body position in Vetebro-Basilar Insufficiency patients, respectively. Stabilometry was also found to be more valuable in diagnosing vertigo when head shaking or altering the body position is performed before stabilometry
