Standing balance tests for screening people with vestibular impairments

Laryngoscope

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 545-550

  Cohen, Helen S ^a   Mulavara, Ajitkumar P ^b   Peters, Brian T ^c   Sangi Haghpeykar, Haleh ^a   Bloomberg, Jacob J ^d  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance testing; Romberg; screening; vestibular testing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FOAM; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMBERG TEST; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STANDING; TIME; TRUNK; VERY ELDERLY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR TEST; YOUNG ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURAL BALANCE; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892913116     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24314     Document Type: Article

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