Basic Physiology of the Vestibular System

18nov11:00 am12:15 pmBasic Physiology of the Vestibular SystemJoin this eseminar : 'Basic Physiology of the Vestibular System' with Professor Herman Kingma

Event Details

Course introduction:
While this legacy presentation was delivered during the Amsterdam Vestibular Testing Master Class, 2016, the information remains relevant and timeless for practitioners assessing and treating patients with balance complaints. In this engaging lecture, Professor Herman Kingma reviews basic knowledge of the vestibular system and how it relates to clinical application. This event includes the one hour recorded Master Class session, followed by a 15 minute Live Q & A session with Prof Kingma.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this seminar the participants will be able to:
• Describe how both labyrinths detect head motion and head tilt and in which sense the left and right labyrinth are complementary
• List the relevant anatomical structures that form the labyrinth and that are involved in image stabilization, head stabilization, balance control, motion and tilt perception
• Discuss how this knowledge can contribute to a better understanding of the symptoms and complaints of patients with vestibular disorders

CE Credits: not available for this presentation.

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Speakers for this event

  • Herman Kingma

    Herman Kingma

    Professor in clinical Vestibulology and professor in Medical Physics

    Herman Kingma, studied Biology and Physics, received a PhD in experimental quantum physics, specialised in Clinical Physics and was appointed as Professor of Clinical Vestibulology and head of the Vestibular Department at the ENT department of the Maastricht University Medical Center, where he saw many patients with vestibular disorders in consultations for more than 35 years. Since 2014 he is also professor of Medical Physics at Tomsk National Research University and Director of the Tomsk International Science Bachelor Program in Russia and since 2020 also appointed as Professor at the ENT department of Aalborg University in Denmark to support the vestibular research there. His current research in Maastricht, Tomsk and Aalborg focuses on the development of vestibular protheses: the vestibular implant and the balance belt, on bilateral vestibular loss, on treatment of BPPV and development of advanced diagnostic technology. In August 2012 his team together with the team of Prof Guyot in Geneva, successfully implanted the first artificial balance organ in humans in the world: the vestibular implant. In 2018 the only other currently available vestibular prothesis, a haptic feedback balance belt, was developed and was turned into a clinical commercially available device by his research group in 2020. Herman Kingma gave many hundreds of invited key note lectures worldwide and contributed to more than 300 international peer reviewed WI-1 international publications in biophysics and medical sciences

    Professor in clinical Vestibulology and professor in Medical Physics

Time

(Thursday) 11:00 am - 12:15 pm EST

Location

ONLINE eSeminar

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