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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Fahimeh Shojaei, M.D.
Overview
Historical Perspective
Discovery
- BPPV was first dicribed by Adler and Barany, who described it as a problem in the otolith organs.
- In 1952, Margaret Dix and Charles Hallpike named it positional nystagmus of the benign positional type.
- They noted nystagmus and vertigo with different head movements.
- Hallpike also defined it as a peripheral problem rather than central (brain) problem.
- In 1824 Marie-Jean Flourens concluded that semicircular canals are not a hearing organ but a balance-related organ.
- In 1962 Harold Schuknecht described theory of detached utricular otoconia (cupulolithiasis)
- Hall et al and Epley described the theory of free floating particle (canalithiasis)
Landmark Events in the Development of Treatment Strategies
Famous Cases
The following are a few famous cases of [disease name]: