Balance and Vestibular Disorders (BVD) Lab

We’re working on a project to analyze gait and vestibular function in a prospectively constructed clinical database of patients with balance and vestibular disorders analyzed by the multidisciplinary Pediatric Balance Disorders Program at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. The project compares subjective measures of gross motor development and dynamic balance (gait) through the straight-line walking test.

A multisite study of the vestibular effects of myringotomy with tube placement on the balance function of children with serous otitis media is also currently underway. This Nemours-funded protocol is shared with the clinical lab in Jacksonville.

Additionally, in collaboration with Dr. Thierry Morlet, researchers are studying subjective and objective balance disorders in children with Chiari type I malformation. This study is designed to establish the level of subjective balance complaints and objective balance problems in pediatric patients with a specific type of brain malformation.