Postural stability in patients with different types of head and neck trauma in comparison to healthy subjects.

Objective: Dizziness is a common complaint in patients following mild head or neck trauma, but neurological signs are usually rare or absent. The aim of the study was to compare postural control in patients with different types of head and neck trauma to healthy subjects.

Methods: Balance function was evaluated by computerized dynamic platform posturography (CDPP) in 57 dizzy patients with whiplash injury (n = 11), mild head trauma without loss of consciousness (HTNLC) (n = 23), whiplash injury and mild head trauma without loss of consciousness (WHTNLC) (n = 12) and mild head trauma with loss of consciousness (n = 11) and in 14 healthy subjects.

Posturography in MS patients treated with high dose methylprednisolone.

Objectives: To evaluate the sensitivity of the balance sway index (SI) to drug-induced functional changes during acute relapse in patients with MS.

Methods: Dynamic posturography was used to derive the SI in 11 healthy subjects and 13 MS patients before and after intravenous high dose methylprednisolone (HDMP).

Results: In both groups, SI was lower in the least demanding task and increased with test complexity.

Ocular dominance and balance performance in healthy adults.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of ocular dominance on balance performance in healthy adult subjects.

Methods: Ocular dominance was determined in 24 healthy subjects using the hole-in-the-paper test. Balance function was evaluated by computerized dynamic platform posturography (CDPP).

Balance performance in adult epilepsy patients.

Purpose: To evaluate the magnitude of subclinical balance dysfunction in adult epilepsy patients and to assess the relative contribution of different variables to balance impairment.

Methods: Balance performance was evaluated by computerized dynamic platform posturography (CDPP) in 25 adult patients following a generalized tonic-clonic seizure (GTCS) and in 11 healthy subjects.

Results: The GTCS was a breakthrough seizure in 20 patients with epilepsy and a first seizure in 5.

Brainstem auditory evoked response in newborns and infants.

Brainstem auditory evoked response studies were carried out on 105 neonates, with gestational ages ranging from 26 to 43 weeks. The mean chronologic and postconception ages of the subjects were 6.5 weeks and 40.