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Original Article A New Treatment Strategy of Ageotrophic Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
Gyu Cheol Han, Hyung Gyu Jeon, Jin Myung Huh

DOI: https://doi.org/
1Gachon Medical College, Gil Medical Center, Dept. of Otolaryngology, Incheon Korea. han@ghil.com
2Gachon Medical College, Vestibular Rehabilitation Research Center, Incheon Korea.
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Background
and Objectives : Ageotrophic nystagmus in the horizontal canal BPPV has been explained as a result of cupulolithiasis theory, and has been reported to have the less therapeutic response to conservative rehabilitations than the other type BPPV . Though methods to detach the debris with vibrator have been introduced, the effect has been questioned and it’s not physiologic. Materials and Method : We introduce a new head shaking-forced prolonged position method as a more convenient method, and report typical 2 cases of ageotrophic horizontal canal BPPV managed with it and analyzed results of 25 cases all told.
Results
and conclusion : The average number of rehabilitation was less than two, and loss of direction changing positional nystagmus could be observed immediately after rehabilitation.


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