Vestibular rehabilitation of patients with vestibular hypofunction or with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-43

  Herdman, Susan J ^a,b   Blatt, Philip J ^a   Schubert, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXERCISE; HUMAN; MENIERE DISEASE; REVIEW; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; ADAPTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HABITUATION; HOME CARE; KINESIOTHERAPY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OTOLITH; PATIENT POSITIONING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULE;

EID: 0034089002     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-200002000-00008     Document Type: Review

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