TY - JOUR
T1 - Discussion about Visual Dependence in Balance Control
T2 - European Society for Clinical Evaluation of Balance Disorders
AU - Maire, Raphael
AU - Mallinson, Arthur
AU - Ceyte, Hadrien
AU - Caudron, Sebastien
AU - Van Nechel, Christian
AU - Bisdorff, Alexandre
AU - Magnusson, Mans
AU - Petersen, Hannes
AU - Kingma, Herman
AU - Perrin, Philippe
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - The executive committee of the European Society for the clinical evaluation of balance disorders meets annually to address equilibrium problems that are not well understood. This is a review paper on discussions in the latest meeting we held. Materials and methods: Seeing patients with vestibular disorders who end up depending on visual information as part of their compensation process is a common clinical occurrence. However, this "visual dependence" can generate symptoms, which include nausea, sensations of imbalance, and anxiety. It is unclear how this develops, as symptoms can be widely variable from patient to patient. There are several triggering factors to this symptom set, and quantifying it in a given patient is extremely difficult Results: The committee agreed that the presence of this symptom set can be suggestive of vestibular pathology, but the pathology does not have to be present. As a result, there is no correlation between symptom severity and test results. Conclusion: Visual dependence can often be present in a patient, although little, if any, measurable pathology is present. It is important to emphasize that although we cannot accurately measure this with either standardized testing or pertinent questionnaires, "hypersensitive" patients have a genuine disease and their symptoms are not of psychiatric origin.
AB - The executive committee of the European Society for the clinical evaluation of balance disorders meets annually to address equilibrium problems that are not well understood. This is a review paper on discussions in the latest meeting we held. Materials and methods: Seeing patients with vestibular disorders who end up depending on visual information as part of their compensation process is a common clinical occurrence. However, this "visual dependence" can generate symptoms, which include nausea, sensations of imbalance, and anxiety. It is unclear how this develops, as symptoms can be widely variable from patient to patient. There are several triggering factors to this symptom set, and quantifying it in a given patient is extremely difficult Results: The committee agreed that the presence of this symptom set can be suggestive of vestibular pathology, but the pathology does not have to be present. As a result, there is no correlation between symptom severity and test results. Conclusion: Visual dependence can often be present in a patient, although little, if any, measurable pathology is present. It is important to emphasize that although we cannot accurately measure this with either standardized testing or pertinent questionnaires, "hypersensitive" patients have a genuine disease and their symptoms are not of psychiatric origin.
KW - Balance
KW - visual dependence
KW - VERTIGO
KW - POSTUROGRAPHY
U2 - 10.5152/iao.2017.4344
DO - 10.5152/iao.2017.4344
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
C2 - 29360093
SN - 1308-7649
VL - 13
SP - 404
EP - 406
JO - Journal of International Advanced Otology
JF - Journal of International Advanced Otology
IS - 3
ER -