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Head apparatus and assistant device for the treatment of BPPV

  • US 20030116166A1
  • Filed: 10/25/2002
  • Published: 06/26/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for use for treating benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in a person, comprising:

  • a user means sensitive to different spatial positions for displaying user information sufficient to allow the person to follow a first path with the person'"'"'s head when said device is coupled to the person'"'"'s head;

    support means for supporting said user means, coupling means for coupling said user means to the person'"'"'s head to allow the person to move the person'"'"'s head and hence said user means and to see, with an eye of the person, the information displayed to allow the person to progressively move said user means and hence the person'"'"'s head to positions to follow said given path;

    an assistant means coupled to said support and having a second path thereon such that an assistant may see said second path when the person sees said first path;

    said assistant means being sensitive to different spatial positions for displaying information along said second path corresponding to that seen by the person when the person follows said first path.

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