Dizziness and headache are the most common reasons for people to seek medical care. Each year, nearly 4 million patients complain of dizziness, representing 4% of all patients and spending $4 billion in U.S. healthcare costs [Saber Tehrani AS, Coughlan D, Hsieh YH et al, 2013]. Dizziness (synonym vertigo) is a frequent complaint at the reception not only by otorhinolaryngologists, but also by doctors of other specialties: neurologists, therapists. It may be due to both central disturbances and lesions of the peripheral part of the vestibular analyzer. According to epidemiological studies, according to some sources, it has a central origin in 12.5-25% of patients with vertigo and is caused by circulatory disorders in the vertebral-basilar system, migraine, multiple sclerosis, tumors of the posterior cranial fossa, neurodegenerative diseases, drug intake [Aptikeeva NV, 2015].
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