{"id":514,"date":"2018-11-21T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T18:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fueldev.site\/~oregonen\/balance\/vestibular-testing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T17:25:44","slug":"vestibular-balance-testing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/audiology\/balance\/vestibular-balance-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Vestibular Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Vestibular testing involves a series of tests that are used to confirm or rule out inner ear involvement (vestibular system) of dizziness symptoms.<\/p>\r\n<h2><strong>Diagnostic Tests for the<\/strong> Vestibular<strong> System<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>The vestibular system is complex and plays an important role of our balance system. The balance system is made up of three parts: vestibular system, vision, and somatosensory\/proprioception. In order to narrow down the cause of dizziness, it may be appropriate to complete a vestibular test battery.<\/p>\r\n<p>Vestibular testing is also helpful in determining whether additional diagnostic testing, such as imaging, is needed. Oregon Ear, Nose and Throat Center offers vestibular testing such:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Videonystagmography (VNG).<\/strong>This series of tests measures eye movements via small cameras within goggles. VNG test battery usually consists of three parts: evaluation of eye movements during a variety of tasks, changing head and body positions, and caloric testing that measures responses to warm and cool air circulating through the ear canal.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential (VEMP).<\/strong>VEMP testing is used to determine whether inner ear organs and\/or the vestibular nerves are functioning properly. Electrodes are used to measure muscle responses to sounds.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>These tests may be combined with additional hearing or diagnostic tests depending on the results.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vestibular testing involves a series of tests that are used to confirm or rule out inner ear involvement (vestibular system) of dizziness symptoms. Diagnostic Tests for the Vestibular System The vestibular system is complex and plays an important role of our balance system. The balance system is made up of three parts: vestibular system, vision,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":504,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","locid":"","rating":"","footnotes":""},"service_tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/2089"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregonent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service_tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}