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Booklet-based supervised vs. non-supervised vestibular rehabilitation

8 January 2024 | | Neurotology, Vestibular Disorders | Dizziness, physiotherapy, vertigo, vestibular disorder, vestibular rehabilitation therapy
There are conflicting results in the literature about home-based vestibular rehabilitation training (VRT) as opposed to physiotherapist-led training. A randomised controlled trial was designed to interrogate this further. The primary aim was to assess “the effects of a booklet-based exercise...

Is Dymista® useful for paediatric allergic rhinitis?

1 September 2016 | | MP-AzeFlu, assessment, azelastine, children, dymista, fluticasone propionate, seasonal allergic rhinitis
Allergic rhinitis (AR) affects up to 14.6% of the paediatric population. Whilst a recent Cochrane review has considered the evidence for intranasal corticosteroids as `weak and unreliable’ in paediatric AR, this product is a novel formulation combining Fluticasone and Azelastine...

Unpacking the World Health Organization’s World Report on Hearing: what does it say?

4 May 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Otology, ENT
The inaugural report on hearing from the World Health Organisation is a tool for advocacy, and for getting hearing loss on government agendas. Nguyen Ngoc Bao Tran was 11 months old when her hearing loss was diagnosed. Despite being informed...

World Health Assembly adopts a resolution on hearing loss: a defining moment for the global hearing health community

1 November 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
The World Health Assembly recently adopted a resolution on hearing loss. In this article Shelly Chadha and Alarcos Cieza outline how the resolution came to be and how the World Health Organization and its partners plan to implement it. The...

Unpacking the World Health Organization’s World Report on Hearing: what does it say?

4 May 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Otology, ENT
The inaugural report on hearing from the World Health Organisation is a tool for advocacy, and for getting hearing loss on government agendas. Nguyen Ngoc Bao Tran was 11 months old when her hearing loss was diagnosed. Despite being informed...

A patient-centred approach from the patient’s point of view

1 January 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, ENT
Seeking help for hearing loss is often a big step for patients. Shari Eberts, a hearing health advocate living with hearing loss, explains why, and gives us her five top tips to improve patient-centred care in such cases. Sensorineural hearing...

CI music: seeking perfection, accepting reality

1 September 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants
Having just read about the challenges cochlear implant technology and music appreciation present, the musician Richard Reed beautifully illustrates the realities of this patient journey. An old friend of mine is an ardent music fan, and completely tone deaf. Long...

Rotational chair testing: “To rotate, or not to rotate, that is the real question”

1 November 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Vestibular Disorders
Passive whole body rotation tests are widely considered to be the ‘gold standard’ for the identification of bilateral peripheral vestibular disorders (bPVD), but also have a part to play in identifying unilateral disorders (uPVD). In this article Paul Radomskij discusses...

Congenital CMV: investigations and management in the audiology setting

1 July 2017 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic, Vestibular Disorders
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is the only cause of congenital sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) for which there is a medical treatment available to prevent further hearing loss. Dr Simone Walter discusses cCMV infection, cCMV-related hearing loss, and how to facilitate their...

The James Lind Alliance – involving patients and their health professionals jointly in setting priorities for research

1 January 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, ENT
In a world of patient-reported outcomes and patient-centred care, patient-centred research must also be considered. That is where the James Lind Alliance (JLA) comes in, as Caroline Whiting explains below. Through Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs), it allows patients, their carers...

Head and neck cancer awareness

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Head and neck cancer is one of the most preventable cancers, and awareness and screening campaigns have shown a decline in its incidence. Support for campaigns of awareness and education about these cancers is crucial from professional, societal and governmental...

ENT Wallabies

1 November 2016 | | Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology
Juggling the demands of elite sport, a boisterous social life on tour and medical academia would seem too much for mere mortals. All in a day’s work for your average Wallaby. Currently I am a Senior Visiting Medical officer at...