This thoroughly updated second edition of Manual of Pediatric Balance Disorders remains a vital resource for clinicians and students specializing in pediatric vestibular and balance disorders. The text is organized for effective use in the clinic, classroom, bedside, or laboratory, and is separated into four parts: Basic Mechanisms, Clinical Evaluation, Pediatric Vestibular Disorders, and Treatment. Each chapter ends with Self-Assessment Questions to aid in reader comprehension and address important chapter topics.
Manual of Pediatric Balance Disorders features contributions from 45 experts across the fields of otolaryngology, audiology, neurology, and physical therapy, and represents the distillation of years of cumulative clinical and research experience.
New to the Second Edition
- New Co-Editor, Jacob R. Brodsky, MD, FACS, FAAP
- Five new chapters with the latest research and findings on various testing and topics in pediatric balance disorders
- Chapter 7. Video Head Impulse Testing (vHIT)
- Chapter 12. New Horizons for the Evaluation of Functional Balance, Self-Motion Perception, Navigation, and Mobility
- Chapter 13. Genetics and Metabolism in Pediatric Vestibular Disorders
- Chapter 15. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
- Chapter 24. Vertigo, Dizziness and Mental Health
- Fully rewritten chapters on migraine and concussion
- Updated references and self-assessment questions throughout
- Access to a PluralPlus companion website with videos and figures
This video demonstrates the Midline Head Hang Maneuver and can be found in Chapter 15 on the companion website accompanying this book.
Robert C. O'Reilly, MD, FACS is the Director of the Balance and Vestibular program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. O'Reilly is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson University Medical School (1990) and completed residency in Otolaryngology at the same institution. He completed a fellowship in Neurotology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is board certified in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.
Thierry Morlet, PhD is the Head of the Auditory Physiology and Psychoacoutics Laboratory at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children (Wilmington, DE) and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware. Dr. Morlet earned his PhD in the neuroscience program at the University of Lyon in France in 1997. He is a neuroscientist whose area of expertise is human auditory physiology.
Sharon L. Cushing, MD, MSc, FRCSC is a full time paediatric otolaryngologist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, and an Associate Professor and Clinician Investigator in the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Toronto. She is the Director of the Cochlear Implant Program at the Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Cushing has a clinical and surgical interest in disorders of the external, middle and inner ear, including hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction. Her research interest include vestibular and balance function and dysfunction in children, and its association with hearing loss and cochlear implantation.
Jacob R. Brodsky, MD, FACS, FAAP is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, a Pediatric Otolaryngologist in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement at Boston Children s Hospital, and the Director of the Balance and Vestibular Program at Boston Children s Hospital. Dr. Brodsky s clinical and academic work focuses on disorders of the middle and inner ear, including the medical and surgical management of hearing loss and vestibular disorders. He has published widely on these topics and routinely presents his work at national and international meetings. He has a particular research interest on the effects of concussion and head trauma on the inner ear. He is the director of the Balance and Vestibular Program and co-coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Concussion Clinic at Boston Children s Hospital. Dr. Brodsky completed his Otolaryngology residency at Upstate Medical University in 2011 and his Pediatric Otolaryngology fellowship at Boston Children s Hospital in 2012.
