Harvard Medical School - Great Video Clips! - Inner Ear Disorders Message Board

studyin · 01-17-2006, 03:44 AM

Hi All,

Check out this great site:

[url]http://www.meei.harvard.edu/patient/rauch.php[/url]

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Scroll down to the bottom and click on the links to a number of excellent short talks by Assoc Professor Stephen Rauch. I particularly liked the one on "Vestibular Compensation" and his analogy comparing compensation to learning a second language - very cool. He understands the many years involved in the chronic compensation period following a vestibular injury which I was impressed by. There's stuff there on BPPV, MAV, VRT and Meniere's too.

Best...Scott

Subs30 · 01-17-2006, 12:48 PM

Hi Scott

Excellent find!!

Agree---the compensation video is well done----he had to take a gulp---on the 2 years---but he got it out----very few Md's---can do that....

Tks!

Howie2 · 01-17-2006, 02:01 PM

Scott:

This is great and the compensation portion makes since. Maybe thats what you are dealing with. you have not learned to deal with the LCD screen and your body reacts this way....

Feel better soon,

Howie

crazylabyrinth · 01-17-2006, 02:38 PM

V interesting - wanted to change his 2 years to more though!

But he did say "years".

Thanks scott - hope ur feeling tad better xxxx

dizzyblond · 01-20-2006, 10:23 AM

Hi Scott,
Was just now able to sit down and look through this site! It was great to be able to sit and listen to this doctor fully, clearly explain what our daily lives consist of! (I think it should be mandatory viewing for all GPs and ENTs who send their poor, bewildered vestibular patients out the door with no help at all!) Can you add it to the archived info? I think it would be a great addition and very helpful to those who are trying to learn as much as they can about inner ear issues!

Hope you are feeling some improvement. Though I don't know your entire history/diagnosis, I got to thinking about your problems with the computer screen several days ago. I'm sure you've already discussed/looked into it, but it occurred to me that as a migraine patient, there have been certain visual inputs in the past - mostly lights of a particular sort - that can send me into a migraine aura. Could it be possible that that particular computer screen is somehow visually impacting and eliciting a migrinous response which is manifesting as a vestibular issue? Just something that crossed my mind....

Do hope you are feeling much, much better and that the stress of your upcoming deadline isn't taking too much of a toll. You have been a great encouragement to me during my time on this board, and I know so many others feel the same! Here's to a great weekend!

XOX ~ Robin