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Dizziness is one of the most troublesome symptoms of vestibular disorders, although its description remains somewhat imprecise, encompassing vertigo, lightheadedness, disequilibrium and giddiness. Symptoms include sensitivity to motion stimuli and discomfort with open spaces, such as empty streets and bridges. It is accompanied by varying degrees of anxiety and phobic behaviors. Several tools have been developed in an attempt to quantify the degree of disability, self-perceived health status and quality of life in patients with dizziness. This review focuses on the University of California, Los Angeles Dizziness Questionnaire (UCLA-DQ), which is used to assess the effect of dizziness on quality of life. This paper also includes a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of the UCLA-DQ and compares it to other instruments used to assess dizziness. In spite of a few disadvantages, we believe that this multidimensional questionnaire is an appropriate tool for evaluating patients with vestibular impairment. It should be used during the acute phase of symptoms, as well as during and after rehabilitative therapy, to assess patient improvement.
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PMID:The University of California Los Angeles Dizziness Questionnaire: advantages and disadvantages. 2444 67

The increase in road traffic accidents in twentieth-century Britain brought with it a rise in the number of patients admitted to hospital with blunt, non-penetrating head injuries. Patients who had suffered mild to moderate trauma typically complained of a variety of problems, including headaches, dizziness and giddiness. For the neurologists tasked with diagnosing and treating these patients, such symptoms proved difficult to assess and liable to obscure the clinical picture. This article focuses on why neurologists turned to time as a diagnostic-tool in helping to resolve these issues, specifically the measurement of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA). This article argues that PTA became so central to neurological diagnosis owing to a set of epistemic, professional and material factors in the decades prior to the Second World War. It concludes with a call for deeper appreciation of the range of issues that contribute to the shaping of medical theories of head trauma.
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PMID:The Place of Post-Traumatic Amnesia in the Assessment of Blunt Head Trauma: The Epistemic, Professional and Material Factors Shaping British Neurology, circa 1920-40. 3019 83


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