A new stimulator helps facilitate walking, relieve dizziness, and improve patients' quality of life with bilateral vestibular hypofunction (BVH), a inner ear disorder. Johns Hopkins Medicine ...

A simple fall is one of the most dangerous traumas the elderly face: one-quarter of older Americans who suffer a hip fracture after a fall die within six months of the injury. But what exactly causes ...

Researchers have successfully developed a method to grow inner ear tissue from human stem cells, a finding that could lead to new platforms to model disease and new therapies for the treatment of ...

Vertigo, typically a symptom of other health conditions, triggers the feeling of dizziness and spinning even when you’re not moving. If you have vertigo, you may also feel sick or vomit and experience ...

A new study makes the first attempts to design and test a vestibular prosthesis to help restore balance for those with Meniere's disease. Many disorders of the inner hear which affect both hearing and ...

WILLMAR -- Sharon Jergenson was out golfing on a recent spring day. On the surface it might sound like no big deal -- except for Jergenson it represents a triumph after struggling with unrelenting ...

Most balance problems occur because of brain or inner ear problems, or physical issues, such as broken bones or muscle injuries. Balance problems can make it difficult to walk or move. They may make a ...

A report in the May 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, has revealed that some 35 percent of U.S. adults age 40 and older have inner ear balance disorders and ...

You might not expect dizziness and balance-related conditions to be among the most common health problems in adults. But according to the National Institutes of Health, more than 4 in 10 Americans ...

Dizziness or balance problems can feel as though the room is spinning and can occur regardless of sitting, standing, or lying down. 1 This symptom encompasses one of the most frequent patient ...

Nearly two million people worldwide have lost the simple ability to feel steady. Now researchers have developed an experimental medical implant that promises to restore the sensory machinery ...