Dr. med. F. Vaz Garcia

The authors have conducted a retrospective study in about 15,000 beneficiaries of Portugal Telecom/ACS who attended its ENT Department at its Health Care Unit of Lisbon, during a period of 20 years (1983-2003). 1001 patients with isolated or associated vertigo complaints were selected. Their analysis was sometimes difficult – owing to the scarce characterization of […]

PURPOSE: to evaluate head stabilization in pitch plane in patients with different kinds of imbalance, when standing over firm and movable surfaces. MATERIAL: STATITEST multi-segments platform for recording and computing the postural adjustments at different body levels, detected by two captors placed on the head and hip, in four situations – eyes open and closed […]