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When performing the Dix–Hallpike test, patients are lowered quickly to a supine position (lying horizontally with the face and torso facing up) with the neck extended 30 degrees below horizontal by the clinician performing the maneuver. [3] The Dix–Hallpike and the side-lying testing position have yielded similar results.
A positive test is indicated by the patient report of a reproduction of vertigo and clinician observation of nystagmus. Both the Dix–Hallpike and the side-lying testing position have yielded similar results, and as such the side-lying position can be used if the Dix–Hallpike cannot be performed easily. [26]
Patients with vestibular disorders may go through the Dix-Hallpike maneuver, in which the patient is seated with legs extended and rotates the head 45 degrees. The patient is then asked to lie down on the table and checked for nystagmus , or uncontrollable eye movements.
The patient begins in an upright sitting posture, with the legs fully extended and the head rotated 45 degrees toward the side in the same direction that gives a positive Dix–Hallpike test. Then the patient is quickly lowered into a supine position (on the back), with the head held approximately in a 30-degree neck extension ( Dix-Hallpike ...
Radtke et al. have suggested that home treatment is both safe and effective when training is adequate but that the key cause of failure of the home treatment is an imperfect repositioning maneuver. [4] As a result of failed home treatments, the DizzyFIX was developed to assist patients in the performance of a correct particle repositioning ...
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Dix–Hallpike test: Margaret R. Dix, Charles Skinner Hallpike: otolaryngology: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: synd/3615 at Who Named It? Elicitation of extreme vertigo upon lateral movement of a patient's head when lying in a supine position Döhle bodies: Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle: pathology: various including trauma and neoplasm
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