Dizziness and Driving
It is not unusual for patients to ask about their ability to drive after being diagnosed with a vestibular disorder. It is a reasonable and responsible concern without a clear answer. Our litigious society dampens our ability to clear a patient when we feel that they have adequately compensated from a chronic vestibular injury, or…
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Living with Chronic Vestibular Dysfunction
I am about seven weeks out from an acute vestibular neuritis. From a clinician’s point of view, this is a textbook case of acute vestibular syndrome that I have seen hundreds of times. This time, as the patient, my experience has been predictable in some ways, and hard to explain in other ways. The first…
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