Avaliação multidisciplinar em idosos com tontura
The medical examination of elder people suffering from dizziness is often frustrating. Generally the physical examination is not specific, because of the fact that, in most cases, the patient can´t clearly express his/her complaints, what brings difficulties to the evaluation process. Most of the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Nove de Julho
2002-01-01
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| Series: | ConScientiae Saúde |
| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=92900106 |
| Summary: | The medical examination of elder people suffering from dizziness is often
frustrating. Generally the physical examination is not specific, because of
the fact that, in most cases, the patient can´t clearly express his/her complaints,
what brings difficulties to the evaluation process. Most of the patients present
several types of dizziness coming from different origins, despite their
complaints are very similar. Actually the dizziness sensation is very subjective
because of the fact that only the patient him/herself can feel it, therefore
talking about this. In addition many constituents of its symptoms are recurrent
and very seldom is the patient dizzy, what brings again difficulties to an
objective evaluation. The physical evaluation of an ill patient, who shows
this symptoms, allows the patient to know little more about his/her physical
limitations, hence understanding some obscure details about his/her sickness.
To reach the aim of this paper which is to show that the characterization and
objective evaluation of this disease is possible, elder people suffering from
dizziness were checked by a multidisciplinary medical geriatric team,
composed by a geriatric, a physiotherapist and a psychologist as well. |
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| ISSN: | 1677-1028 1983-9324 |