Vertigo and dizziness in the elderly

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Fernández, Lara ^a   Breinbauer, Hayo A ^b,c   Delano, Paul Hinckley ^a,d  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Aging; Dizziness; Elderly; Falls; Presbystasis; Vertigo

Indexed keywords

ANTIVERTIGO AGENT;

AGED; AGING; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; DIZZINESS; FALL RISK; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOME REHABILITATION; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; SHORT SURVEY; STABILOGRAPHY; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84936952243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00144     Document Type: Short Survey

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