Dear Reader: Vertigo is the sudden onset of a sensation of spinning or whirling. It can feel like the environment around you ...

For sensory deficits related to dizziness, the APN can help the patient obtain a hearing ... canalith repositioning maneuver, or the Epley maneuver, is the one definitive treatment for vestibular ...

Some patients go to great lengths to avoid moving ... the treatment is simple and requires no medication. It's called the Epley maneuver, and it's a self-reposition exercise to shift the crystals ...

In November 2021 Haft saw a neurologist who specializes in treating patients with unexplained dizziness ... BPPV is often treated with the Epley maneuver, head movements that can shift fragments out ...

Brittain was Persaud's only patient with Guillain-Barre syndrome in her 35-year nursing career. Begnaud and his team helped to track down Persaud, who lives in Temecula, California. After being ...

For decades, the Heimlich maneuver has been lauded as the best ... Grace then asks if the patient can cough to see if the obstruction can be internally dislodged. “If they can’t or the ...

Standardized patients are individuals who are specially trained to act as patients for the instruction, practice and assessment of medical examination skills of medical students, fellows, residents ...

As anyone who’s ever been to a doctor’s appointment knows, medical offices use registration forms to collect each patient’s name, address, biological sex assigned at birth and more.

Eric Epley is the Executive Director of the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council for Trauma (STRAC) in San Antonio, TX. STRAC serves 22 counties that stretch over 26,000 square miles ...

Since 1999 NICE has involved patients, service users, carers and the public, including voluntary, charitable and community organisations in its work. In April 2013 NICE’s remit expanded to include ...

Q: I had such a bad attack of vertigo that my boyfriend drove me to urgent care. The doctor got it to go away by having me lie down and then moving my head around. Why did I have that episode of ...

Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and associate professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health.