Observation of Vestibular Asymmetry in a Majority of Patients over 50 Years With Fall-Related Wrist Fractures

2001 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella K. Kristinsdottir, Eva Nordell, Gun-Br
Keyword(s):  
Wrist Fractures ◽  
Vestibular Asymmetry

Observation of Vestibular Asymmetry in a Majority of Patients over 50 Years With Fall-Related Wrist Fractures

2001 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella K. Kristinsdottir ◽  
Eva Nordell ◽  
Gun-Britt Jarnlo ◽  
Annika Tjäder ◽  
Karl-Göran Thorngren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wrist Fractures ◽  
Vestibular Asymmetry

Understanding the Patterns of Deformity of Wrist Fractures Using Computer Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-200
Author(s):  
Shai Luria
Keyword(s):  
Computer Modeling ◽  
Computer Analysis ◽  
Computer Models ◽  
Fracture Morphology ◽  
Patient Specific ◽  
Surgical Approaches ◽  
Surgical Indications ◽  
Wrist Fractures ◽  
Novel Methods ◽  
Made In

Computer modeling of the wrist has followed other fields in the search for descriptive methods to understand the biomechanics of injury. Using patient-specific 3D computer models, we may better understand the biomechanics of wrist fractures in order to plan better care. We may better estimate fracture morphology and stability and evaluate surgical indications, design more adequate or effective surgical approaches and develop novel methods of therapy. The purpose of this review is to question the actual advances made in the understanding of wrist fractures using computer models.

Increased double support variability in elderly female fallers with vestibular asymmetry

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 820-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Larsson ◽  
Eva Ekvall Hansson ◽  
Michael Miller
Keyword(s):  
Double Support ◽  
Elderly Female ◽  
Vestibular Asymmetry

Direct Digital Radiography Versus Storage Phosphor Radiography in the Detection of Wrist Fractures

2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 258-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siegfried Peer ◽  
Ulrich Neitzel ◽  
Salvatore M. Giacomuzzi ◽  
Sigurd Pechlaner ◽  
Karl Heinz KÜnzel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Radiography ◽  
Wrist Fractures ◽  
Storage Phosphor ◽  
Storage Phosphor Radiography

Restoring Wrist Rotation in Injured Pianists and Violinists

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-90
Author(s):  
Ian Winspur ◽  
Katherine Butler
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Distal Ulna ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
String Instruments ◽  
Wrist Fractures ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
The Ideal

Wrist fractures are common injuries in musicians, and a number of these fractures heal in a mal-united position, interfering with wrist rotation. This can prevent musicians who play keyboard instruments and the smaller string instruments from assuming the required wrist positions. Resection of the distal ulna (Darrach procedure), while somewhat discredited for the general population, has proved to be the ideal operation for this problem in musicians and has been used successfully on five professional musicians. This procedure, the rationale for its use in musicians, and the important technical details are discussed.

Improved postural control after computerized optokinetic therapy based on stochastic visual stimulation in patients with vestibular dysfunction

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
Benjamin Loader ◽  
Wolfgang Gruther ◽  
Christian A. Mueller ◽  
Gerhard Neuwirth ◽  
Stefan Thurner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Postural Stability ◽  
Visual Stimulation ◽  
Vestibular Dysfunction ◽  
Composite Score ◽  
Sensory Organization Test ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Sensory Organization ◽  
Somatosensory Input ◽  
And Control ◽  
Vestibular Asymmetry

Balance is accomplished by the congruent integration of visual, vestibular and somatosensory input and the execution of adequate control movements. With increasing age, nonlinear dynamics of central control systems become more regular. In unilateral vestibular dysfunction, sensory input to central systems is similarly less complex, because of one sided reduction of information influx. This study aimed to increase postural stability in patients with vestibular asymmetry and resulting disequilibrium by implementing a computerized visual training method relying on the principles of stochastic resonance. 24 subjects (average age 64a, 31–78a, 15 women, 9 men), with minimum 3 months of persisting disequilibrium due to vestibular dysfunction, were either treated with computerized optokinetic therapy (COKT), or solely observed. Treated patients were requested to read texts, stochastically moving in a previously defined matrix, during 10 sessions over three weeks. The Sensory Organization Test (SOT) was used for comparative posturographic measurements. COKT patients showed significant improvement in conditions 4, 6 and composite score. A significant post-therapeutic difference was seen between therapy and control groups in conditions 1, 6 and composite score. The results show a clinical benefit and we conclude COKT to be an effective rehabilitation method in patients with chronic disequilibrium.

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