BPPV is the most common inner ear disorder, accounting for 20 percent of cases of those evaluated for dizziness. It can affect people of any age, though it is rare in children and most common in ...

The Dix-Hallpike maneuver remains the gold standard for diagnosing posterior canal BPPV. A positive test requires that vertigo associated with torsional (rotatory) and up-beating (toward the forehead) ...

Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York The most ...

It’s eight o’clock on a Tuesday morning and I’m wobbling across my bedroom like a tentative toddler. The floor dips beneath ...

The Hallpike manoeuvre can be used to check for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) in adults with vertigo on head movement. If BPPV is confirmed, treatment to relieve it using a canalith ...

At least once a shift, an elderly patient comes through the doors complaining of dizziness. Dizziness in elderly patients could mean anything. Is it their heart? Is their brain okay? Are they anemic?

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