“We offer the most advanced treatments against Vertigo”.

– thanks to the first posturógrafo installed in the State that includes a virtual reality system, which allows a diagnosis and treatment more fast and accurate of Vertigo

-Vertigo, characterized by the feeling of dizziness to move your head or change of position40% of the population from the age of 40,

San Sebastian, November of 2011- the Dr. Fermin Matellanes, Otolaryngologist of the Hospital Donostia Chiron, has incorporated in its unity of Vertigo and balance disorders the most advanced technology available currently on the market for the diagnosis and treatment of Vertigo, and the first of these features is installed at the national level. It’s posturógrafo BRU 415, whose novelty lies in the incorporation of a lens system of virtual reality for training oculomotor and cognitive stimulation. It has some glasses ” virtual reality allowing to simulate situations routine as look out the window of the car, move around a room, sit down, picking up objects … etc., which can appear Vertigo. In addition, the patient is placed on a platform that detects their movements, similar to the of the last generation consoles, which produces an effect bio-feedback.

This system ” says Dr. Fermin Matellanes, allows you to recreate real-life situations with total precision, you get a diagnosis and a faster and more effective the Vertigo of origin Neurorehabilitation vestibular, or a brain disease or cervical trauma derivative ”. And is that according to the specialist, can say that our unity we offer the most advanced treatments are currently available to combat the dizziness ”.

Computerized dynamic posturografía is currently the most innovative technique applied for complex diagnosis and treatment of Vertigo and allows to determine what the affected component when there is a disturbance of the balance, thanks to the study of posture and balance of the patient through the movements of the center of pressure on a torque-indicating Allen platform. Also allows you to schedule a personalized vestibular rehabilitation treatment, taking into account the employment situation and the environment of the patient, and therefore the degree in which Vertigo affects their daily lives. In addition, this latest generation posturógrafo facilitates recovery after the session with images and relaxing situations ” indicates the Otolaryngologist, once so far patients could continue suffering dizziness at the end of each therapy session ”.

Vertigo is not a disease but a symptom that affects 40% of the population from the age of 40. It generates 30% of consultations in Otolaryngology and 50% if we refer to the elderly population, causing falls that put at risk the health of these patients. It is caused by a disorder of balance dependent on three sources of information that transmit us any changes of our spatial consciousness: sight, proprioceptive (joints and muscles) and estereoceptiva (tactile) sensation and the inner ear. East, specifically the components of the subsequent maze, are responsible for capturing spatial displacement of our body to compensate for variations in the space situation. It’s a network complex called vestibular system, which connects with the brain, spinal cord, the neurovegetativo system and eyes.

a patient prepared for further treatment in posturógrafo BRU 415 with glasses of virtual and reality subject by means of a harness to avoid falls.

Its origin is often multifactorial, which complicates the diagnosis, but fortunately, in recent years have experienced great progress, due above all to the in-depth study of the mechanism that maintains the balance in the human body. Thus, diagnosis is today more accurate, thanks to the development and precision of exploration and diagnostic tests that make up the otoneurológico examination: impedianciometría and reflection estapedial, audiometry, studies of auditory evoked potentials of brainstem, acoustic otoemisiones and especially the case of the posturografíawhich is the latest breakthrough in the supplementary evidence. In this sense, it is important to note, as says Dr. Matellanes, that Vertigo is not always corrected by repositioning maneuvers ”, a physiotherapy treatment that solves 80% of cases of positional vertigo, produced by canalolitiasis, an accumulation of fine sand ” in the inner ear. About 40% of dizziness have another origin, and it is essential to determine what to implement the most appropriate treatment ” concludes the specialist.

The unity of Vertigo and alterations of the balance of the Dr. Fermin Matellanes takes more than ten years in operation (since 1999) and has helped more than 8,000 patients in overcoming dizziness, dizziness and instabilities.