Ear, Nose & Throat SpecialtyCare offers
complete Otolaryngology and Audiology services for adults and children.
Otolaryngology focuses on the diagnosis and medical and surgical
treatment of the ear, nose, throat and related structures of the head
and neck.
Our medical team consists of Otolaryngologists, Minnesota Registered
Audiologists, specially trained Nurses and a host of other support
staff. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality ear, nose and
throat medical/surgical and hearing healthcare possible for patients of
all ages. Our continuing education, research and teaching pursuits
ensure that you receive the most current and advanced diagnostic care
and treatments available.
The body-alarm reaction results from the activation of
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which can lead to
physio-psychological phenomena such as an exclusion/occlusion of the
sense of hearing. One hypothesis to explain this alteration consists in a
hydromechanical dysfunction of the internal ear attributable to
antidiuretic hormone. In this study, we evaluated the perception of
acoustic stimuli administered in stressful conditions in 14 phobic
patients and in 20 healthy subjects, in order to assess the influence of
stress on perceiving capabilities. We also measured the concentration
of salivary cortisol and IL-1β and neurovegetative parameters to
objectivise and quantify the physiological reactions. Our results show a
worse perception of the frequencies of the human voice under stress;
these findings could have a dual value: in the legal field, concerning
criminal liability, and on the operative context, regarding the
efficiency of verbal communication among law enforcement officers in
situations inducing intense emotional stress.
Floyd Landis won the prestigious Tour de France in 2006 as the leader of
the Phonak bicycle team, but his win was marred when he tested positive
for synthetic testosterone. The highlight of the Tour was Landis's
sensational ride in stage 17, when his solo breakaway over the French
mountains beat the field by nearly six minutes. Even more remarkably,
Landis rode with a degenerating right hip: he announced during the Tour
that he would have hip replacement surgery later in 2006. Landis grew
up in a Mennonite family in Pennsylvania and began riding mountain bikes
as a teen. He moved to California at age 20, switched to road bikes,
and turned pro in 1999. He rode with the U.S. Postal (later Discovery
Channel) team from 2002-2004, helping teammate Lance Armstrong
win the Tour de France each year, before switching to Phonak in 2005.
Landis's winning time in the 2006 Tour was 89 hours, 39 minutes and 30
seconds. However, the week after Landis's big win, the Phonak team
announced that he had tested positive for excessive levels of
testosterone after his stunning 17th stage. After a second test also
showed elevated testosterone levels, he was fired by his team and faced
the loss of his 2006 title. Landis denied having taken testosterone and
is conducting an ongoing legal fight to have the test results
overturned.
As a child, you may remember getting at least
one bad earache. That painful childhood earache you remember was
probably caused by a middle
ear infection. While middle ear infections are fairly common
in children, other parts of your ear may become infected and inflamed
as well. For example, you may come down with an inner ear infection
at any time during your life. Inner ear infection symptoms are completely
different from other types of ear infections.
To
understand inner ear infection symptoms, also called labyrinthitis,
you first should know some basics about your inner ear. Your inner
ear contains a system of tubes and canals called the labyrinth.
The labyrinth sends signals to your brain to help you do two different
things: (1) comprehend sound, and (2) determine the movement and
position of your head. When these tubes become infected and inflamed,
you will experience a specific set of inner ear infection symptoms.
A list of inner ear infection symptoms includes:
Recently, researchers reported a innovative treatment for tinnitus in
the journal Lancet . This follow-up survey was by 492 adults with
tinnitus for 12 month to elaborate on the effect of this innovative
therapy.
Tinnitus is abnormal sound feeling under the conditions of lack of any
external stimuli,and due to the auditory function disorders . About 15
percent of the people were suffering from the disease, and associated
with lack of concentration problems, sleep disorders, anxiety,
depression and extreme fatigue, sometimes severe tinnitus will seriously
affect patients' daily life.There is no cure for tinnitus.
This innovative therapy is the common wisdom of audiologists,
psychologists, language and movement therapist, physical therapy,
scientists and social workers . This include cognitive behavioral
therapy.It is a combination of psychology and audiology elements and
update the tinnitus training therapy (of TRT,tinnitus retraining
therapy) element.The target is to reduce negative thoughts, through
exposure techniques, exercise and relaxation exercises, and a sense
based mindfulness element to feel tinnitus environment, tinnitus
symptoms. Compare this innovative therapy and the Netherlands standard
treatment, the results prove the tinnitus innovative therapies is better
than the tinnitus traditional therapy, the expertise of an innovative
tinnitus therapy.
After the application of innovative therapies, the overall health of
the tinnitus patients was improved ,symptom severity and perceived
barriers reduced. In addition, the act is effective for mild and severe
tinnitus, but also more effective to reduce negative emotions, bad faith
and tinnitus-related fear. Therefore, it is a widely used, specialized
in treating tinnitus. (Bio Valley bioon.com)
(NaturalNews) Imagine simply standing up and feeling your heart speed up
more than 30 beats a minute -- sometimes it races well over 120 beats a
minutes. You also have heart palpitations out the blue and low stroke
volume (the amount of blood your heart pumps with each blood). Even the
amount of blood in your body is too low.
These are the symptoms
of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) -- dubbed "The
Grinch Syndrome" because the majority of patients have a heart that is
literally, to use Dr. Seuss' description of the Grinch's heart, "two
sizes too small." POTS affects about 500,000 people in the U.S.,
primarily young women.
And while it isn't life-threatening, it
can destroy the quality of a person's life and cause substantial
disability by bringing on symptoms such as dizziness, lightheadedness,
fatigue, inability to stand for prolonged periods of time (chronic
orthostatic intolerance) and fainting.
Samuel H. Selesnick, M.D., F.A.C.S. is Professor and Vice Chairman of
the Department of Otolaryngology and Professor of Otolaryngology in
Neurological Surgery at the Weill Cornell Medical College, and is a
member of the Department of NeurologicalSurgery at Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center.
Dr. Selesnick is a Past President of the
American Neurotology Society, the largest specialty organization of
neurotologists - skull base surgeons in the United States. Neurotology
encompasses lateral skull base surgery for tumors such as vestibular schwanommas (acoustic neuromas), meningiomas,epidermoid tumors and glomus tumors, as well as the surgical and medical treatment for patients suffering from complex ear-related problems such as hearing loss, otosclerosis, cholesteatoma and facial nerve tumors.Dr. Selesnick has lectured on neurotologic and ear related topics in the
United States, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Austria, Denmark,
Spain, Australia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, India, the
Ukraine, Canada, Japan and Mexico.
