Vertigo and Dizziness Rehabilitation The MCS Method
This diagnosis and management guide opens up a new frontier both for medical specialists and physical therapists dealing with vertigo sufferers. It presents a new original approach to diagnosis and rehabilitative treatment of vertigo and dizziness based o
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Vertigo and Dizziness Rehabilitation
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Antonio Cesarani
Dario Alpini
Vertigo and Dizziness Rehabilitation The MCS Method
With a contribution by c.-F. Claussen Drawings by F. Alpini With 173 Illustrations and 5 Tables
Springer
ANTONIO CESARANI,
M. D.
Institute of Otolaryngology University of Sassari Via Mancini 5 17100 Sassari, Italy DARIO ALPINI, M. D. Centro Medico Sociale "S. Maria Nascente" Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation ENT-Otoneurology Service Via Capecelatro 66 20148 Milan, Italy
Dr. Claus- Frenz Claussen President of the Neurotology and Equilibriometric Society Kurhausstrasse 12 97688 Bad Kissingen, Germany
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-64084-4 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-59875-3
e-ISBN -13: 978-3-642-59875-3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cesarani, A. (Antonio) Vertigo and dizziness rehabilitation: the MCS method / Antonio Cesarani, Dario Alpini; with a contribution by c.-F. Claussen; drawings by F. Alpini. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-64084-4
1. Vertigo-Patients-Rehabilitation. 2. Dizziness-Patients-Rehabilitation. 3. Equilibrium (Physiology). 4. Vestibular apparatus-Diseases. I. Alpini, Dario, 1958- . II. Claussen, Claus-Frenz. III. Title. RF260.C47 1999 616.8'41-ddc21
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Preface
This volume opens a new frontier for clinical specialists dealing with vertigo sufferers. As our populations are constantly growing older, we have to deal more and more with degenerative neurosensorial disorders of elderly persons not only from the investigative, but also from the innovative therapeutic point of vie
