Our research group and Reina Sofia hospital test a new low-cost device to treat postural vertigos. More details at UPCT news and RTVE.
Researchers from the PRISMA group of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) and ENT specialists from the Reina Sofia Hospital in Murcia have developed and patented a technological prototype to treat Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV), a chronic pathology that affects 0.6% of the population of the Region and for which about 9,000 people are treated each year.
For the diagnosis and treatment of BPPV, the physician has to try a series of different positional maneuvers with the patient lying on a stretcher, which are not always easy to remember. The new device, which is placed on the patient’s head and attached to a standard bicycle-type helmet, guides the physician by means of luminous sequences during the execution of the different maneuvers, which indicate the correct position for both diagnosing and treating the patient in a noninvasive manner.
