For many people maintaining balance isn’t easy. It can be a challenge to understand why they suffer conditions that make it difficult to perform one or more basic activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, or simply getting around inside the home. Vestibular patients referred to Prof. Sharpe have typically already suffered long-term lifestyle […]
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Are you one of the two in five adults who experience significant dizziness? Contact for a consultation. “We take our balance for granted until we lose it through trauma or disease. You are never too old and it’s never too late to exercise and regain your balance. Sitting is the killer and movement is the […]
Trialling dizziness research success
An investigation into the diagnostic accuracy, reliability, acceptability and safety of a novel device for Continuous Ambulatory Vestibular Assessment (CAVA) John s. phillips1, Jacob L. Newman2 & stephen J. Cox2 Dizziness is a common condition that is responsible for a significant degree of material morbidity and burden on health services. It is usually episodic and […]
Effective Management of Pain Hyperacusis
Colucci, Dennis AuD, MAThe Hearing Journal:February 2017 – Volume 70 – Issue 2 – p 42,44,45 doi: 10.1097/01.HJ.0000513103.95086.22Hearing Matters IMPORTANCE OF EARLY INTERVENTION Regardless of the cause or network mechanisms involved, intense and early treatment is a critical part of the therapy to improve sleep, control headaches or migraines, and the associated anxiety, in addition […]
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Direct-to-Consumer Hearing Devices: Capabilities, Costs, and Cosmetics
Authors; Ibrahim Almufarrij, Kevin J. Munro, Piers Dawes, Michael A. Stone, and Harvey Dillon Abstract; Direct-to-consumer (DTC) hearing devices can be purchased without consulting a hearing health professional. This project aims to compare 28 DTC devices with the most popular hearing aid supplied by the U.K. National Health Service (NHS). The comparison was based on […]