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Practical Management of the Balance Disorder Patient

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ISBN-10: 1879105845

ISBN-13: 9781879105843

Edition: 1997

Authors: Neil T. Shepard, Steven A. Telian

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This textbook provides a practical and systematic approach to the patient with balance disorders. It emphasizes an understanding of how the overall balance system functions to aid in effective evaluation and treatment and provides reliable tools for guiding therapy even when the exact diagnosis may be elusive. It covers a range of topics which include: a practical presentation of the basics of vestibular system function, the use of clinical information in diagnosis and treatment planning, rehabilitation of the dizzy patient and surgical patient selection. TEXTBOOK
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Book details

List price: $199.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication date: 7/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Introduction
A Word or Two to Our Student Readers
A Few Technicalities
Background Skills and Information
Basic Skills: Physical Examination
Tutorial: Descriptive Statistics
Tutorial: Relative Measures and Logarithmic Scaling
Tutorial: Plotting Data
Tutorial: Semitones
Tutorial: Decibels
Basic Skills: The Oscilloscope
Basic Skills: Reading Oscillograms
Basic Skills: Calibration
Vocal Fundamental Frequency
Clinical Application: Vocal Fundamental Frequency
Clinical Application: Fundamental Frequency Perturbation (Vocal Jitter)
Vocal Intensity
Clinical Application: The Sound Level meter, Vocal Intensity, and The Voice Range Profile
Clinical Application: Vocal Rise time
Clinical Application: Amplitude Perturbation (Vocal Shimmer)
Air Pressure for Speech and Vocie
Clinical Application: Intraoral Pressure During Consonant Production
Clinical Application: Estimating Subglottic Pressure
Airflows for Speech and Voice
Clinical Application: Mean Phonatory Airflow Using a Pneumotachograph
Clinical Application: Airflow During Speech Production
Clinical Application..Estimating Glottal Resistance
Clinical Application: Determining Lung Volume Change and Mean Phonatory Airflow from Spirometric Records
Clinical Application: Estimating Mean Speech Airflow from Spirometric Records
Nasalization
Clinical Application: Nasalance
Clinical Application: Nasalization
Electroglottography
Basic Skills: Electroglottography
Sound Spectrography
Basic Skills: Sound Spectrography I - Getting Acquainted
Basic Skills: Sound Spectrography II - Identifying "Source" and "Filter" Contributions to the Speech Signal
Clinical Application..Spectrography - Vowel Formants
Clinical Application: Spectrography - Sonorants
Clinical Application: Spectrography - Fricatives
Clinical Application: Spectrography - Plosives and Affricates
Appendixes
Sample Vocal Tract Examination Form
The Angle Classification System of Malocclusions
Common Logarithm Table
Standard Reading Passage: The Rainbow
Mathematical Definitions of Vocal Jitter Measures
Mathematical Definitions of Vocal Shimmer Measures
Predicted Normal Forced Vital Capacity (FVC)
Low-Flow Reading Passage:
High-Flow Reading Passage: