Anatomy
Name three small bones of the middle ear.
What are the Malleus, Incus and Stapes. (Ossicles also acceptable response).
The sensory system for balance, spatial orientation, and coordinating movement.
What is the Vestibular system?
What are dizziness, hearing loss, distorted hearing, Low back pain, aches, soreness, or discomfort
What is Meniere's disease?
This part of the semicircular canal pertains to swiveling head side to side.
What is a horizontal canal?
Improves vision and the ability to focus on a stationary object while the head is moving.
What are gaze stabilization exercises?
Another name for an eardrum.
What is a Tympanic membrane?
Perilymph, high Na:K ratio communicates with CSF though this structure
What is the cochlear aqueduct?
John does not like to participate in PE because it makes him feel nervous and sick. This may indicate his vestibular system is _____ responsive.
Over responsive.
This part of the semicircular canal pertains to Head back and forward-nodding.
Treats people with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).
What are Canalith repositioning procedures (CRPs)?
Calcium carbonate crystals that are more dense than the surrounding fluid and gelatinous support.
What is Otoconia?
This structure responds to a change in velocity / angular acceleration.
What is a semicircular canal?
Name two vestibular disorders considered stable with a good prognosis for resolution of their symptoms.
What are vestibular neuritis or labyrinthitis?
Determines the frequency of firing of neurons in the vestibular nerve.
What is the direction of bending of hair?
Relaxing the neck and shoulder muscles, training the eyes to move independently of the head, practicing good balance in everyday situations, practicing head movements that cause dizziness (develops compensation), improving general coordination.
What are Cawthorne-Cooksey Exercises?
This structure has...
3 semicircular canals (Anterior, Posterior, Lateral), Cochlea, and is filled with Perilymphatic fluid.
What is Bony Labyrinth?
Vestibular apparatus contains sensory receptors that respond to these two things...
What is head position relative to gravity and
head movements?
Dizziness upon laying down and turning on your side in bed.
What is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)?
This part of the vestibular nerve innervates
• Posterior Canal
• Saccule
Name two CRP treatments that may cause dizziness for the first 48 hours that should not be performed on persons with pain, stiffness, or injury in the neck.
What are the Epley maneuver and the Semont (Semont-Liberatory) maneuver?
Changing head position tilts this structure.
What is the Macula?
Information is converted into neural signals that are conveyed by the vestibular nerve to this structure.
What is vestibular nuclei?
A reversal of the central compensation process that has previously occurred in the brain to correct for inner ear damage - or vestibular system damage.
What is vestibular decompensation?
Preferring to stay home and read a book instead of going snow skiing due to nervousness may indicate the vestibular system is _________ responsive.
Over responsive.
Exercises that may be performed at home without the supervision of a specialist; consisting of repeated head movements back and forth. Repeated exposure to movements that provoke dizziness symptoms.
What are Brandt-Daroff exercises?