Vestibular assistance systems: promises and challenges

The handicap resulting from a bilateral vestibular deficit is often underestimated. In most cases the deficit settles gradually. Patients do not understand what is happening to them and have many difficulties to describe their symptoms. They have to consult several doctors with different medical spe...

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Main Authors:	Guyot, Jean-Philippe, Perez Fornos, A., Guinand, N., van de Berg, R., Stokroos, R., Kingma, H.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833784/

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spelling	pubmed-48337842016-04-25 Vestibular assistance systems: promises and challenges Guyot, Jean-Philippe Perez Fornos, A. Guinand, N. van de Berg, R. Stokroos, R. Kingma, H. Review The handicap resulting from a bilateral vestibular deficit is often underestimated. In most cases the deficit settles gradually. Patients do not understand what is happening to them and have many difficulties to describe their symptoms. They have to consult several doctors with different medical specialties before diagnosis. Once the diagnosis is made there is no biological way to “repair” the deficient vestibular apparatus and vestibular exercises are mildly effective. Attempts have been made to help patients using substitution devices replacing the defective vestibular information by tactile or acoustic cues. Currently, efforts are being made towards the development of a vestibular implant, conceptually similar to the cochlear implant for the rehabilitation of deaf patients. In recent years, several experiments on animal models have demonstrated the feasibility of this project. This paper reports the steps accomplished in human experiments and the main results obtained in our laboratory. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016-04-15 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4833784/ /pubmed/27083882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00415-015-7922-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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author	Guyot, Jean-Philippe Perez Fornos, A. Guinand, N. van de Berg, R. Stokroos, R. Kingma, H.
spellingShingle	Guyot, Jean-Philippe Perez Fornos, A. Guinand, N. van de Berg, R. Stokroos, R. Kingma, H. Vestibular assistance systems: promises and challenges
author_facet	Guyot, Jean-Philippe Perez Fornos, A. Guinand, N. van de Berg, R. Stokroos, R. Kingma, H.
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title	Vestibular assistance systems: promises and challenges
title_short	Vestibular assistance systems: promises and challenges
title_full	Vestibular assistance systems: promises and challenges
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title_full_unstemmed	Vestibular assistance systems: promises and challenges
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description	The handicap resulting from a bilateral vestibular deficit is often underestimated. In most cases the deficit settles gradually. Patients do not understand what is happening to them and have many difficulties to describe their symptoms. They have to consult several doctors with different medical specialties before diagnosis. Once the diagnosis is made there is no biological way to “repair” the deficient vestibular apparatus and vestibular exercises are mildly effective. Attempts have been made to help patients using substitution devices replacing the defective vestibular information by tactile or acoustic cues. Currently, efforts are being made towards the development of a vestibular implant, conceptually similar to the cochlear implant for the rehabilitation of deaf patients. In recent years, several experiments on animal models have demonstrated the feasibility of this project. This paper reports the steps accomplished in human experiments and the main results obtained in our laboratory.
publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Vestibular assistance systems: promises and challenges

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