vestibular examination is essential whenever we are faced with a patient with vertiginous syndrome.
It involves making the patient wear special glasses (Frenzel glasses), dimly lit, or alternatively by a more sophisticated video oculoscopia-infrared (see fig. Bottom right). In this way the movements are evaluated eye is involuntary (such as nystagmus) and volunteers (such as tracking movements slow and fast ones).
The examination is carried out on a couch with her legs out first and then making the patient assume different positions (lying on the right side and left with his head out of bed etc...)
vestibular examination is a useful tool to identify the cause of vertigo, and many times, if the cause is represented by the detachment of small pebbles in the ear, called otoliths, are made of maneuvers designed to reposition the otoliths, with the final disappearance of symptoms vertiginosa(vedi il video sotto).