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Volume 11

Striking the Right Balance

Living with balance and dizziness issues can include living with fear and anxiety of what the next day or even the next moment might bring. For some the symptoms come and go, while for others the symptoms may be chronic and present at all times. The usually invisible nature of these illnesses brings on its own challenges. Are you faking it? Is this something you can just “get over” or make it go away?

Striking the Right Balance: It’s Not Just a Vestibular Loss: Beyond Vertigo and Dizziness!

In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Assan Mary Cedras, Antonio Sam Pierre, Jonathan Dion, and Clara Orsini, Audiology students at the University of Montreal, and their professor, Maxime Maheu, take a look at vestibular losses beyond the symptoms of vertigo and dizziness. 

Striking the Right Balance: Chronic Dizziness in the Vestibular Audiology Practice

In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Erica Zaia, MSc, RAUD, provides an overview of Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD), hoping to help clinicians identify and treat this disabling vestibular disorder.

Volume 10

Striking the Right Balance: Dizziness Triage – A Necessary but Complicated Challenge

In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Margo Beckerman, AuD, and Devin McCaslin, PhD, write about the complicated by necessary challenge that is triaging the dizzy patient. 

Volume 9

Book Review

HEAR & BEYOND: Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss Eberts, S, Hannan, G (2022). Page Two. ISBN   978-1-77458-160-5 (paperback)ISBN   978-1-77458-161-2 (eBook) Reviewed by Rex Banks, AuD, Reg. CASLPO Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan are arguably two of the most familiar faces in hearing health consumer advocacy on the planet. For years, I have been following both,…

Volume 8

Striking the Right Balance

In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Adam Goulson, AuD and Devin McCaslin, PhD write about how their clinic is using artificial intelligence to help triage and manage their chronic dizzy patients.

Volume 6

Importance of Vestibular Testing in Cochlear Implant Assessments

In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Audiologist Myron Huen from the Cochlear Implant team at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, shares her experience performing vestibular assessments in Cochlear Implant candidates.

Volume 5

Striking the Right Balance – Vestibular Screening Pilot: Finding Balance in the Public Health System

In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Estephanie Sta. Maria-Vendiola audiologist with Fraser Health Authority at the Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey, BC, shares their thought-provoking journey through creating a vestibular screening to address long wait times for vestibular assessments.

Volume 4

Striking the Right Balance

In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Andrea Kuntz and Kegan Stephan, Audiology students at the School of Human Communication Disorders at Dalhousie University interview both Ruth Duggan, an occupational therapist and an occupational therapy student at Dalhousie University, Nisha Sandu, about exploring an inter-professional approach to fall prevention between occupational therapists and audiologists.

Volume 3

Vestibular Assessment and Rehabilitation for Symptoms Following Concussion

In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Patrick Thompson, physiotherapist 
with LifeMark Health at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, discusses his clinical
experience with vestibular assessment and rehabilitation for symptoms following a concussion.