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The present state of the patients vistiting various types of clinics with complaints of vertigo and/or loss of balance was analysed by questionaires sent to otolaryngologists in private practice, to those in large general hospitals and University medical ceters and to a certain group of neurologists in Japan.
According to 246 replies to 530 questionaires, equilibrium function tests such as the test of spontaneous nystagmus, deviation test, tests of righting function and Schellong's test were done routinely in most cases, and patients who complained of vertigo and/or loss of balance were treated vigorously by most doctors. However, a difference in attitude was noted between otolaryngologists in private practice in Hyogo prefecture and the other groups of otolaryngologists, the former being less apt to treat vertigo patients agressively,
