A review in vestibular evoked myogenic potential: with an emphasis on Cervical response

Abstract

Introduction: Emersion of cervical and subsequently ocular vemp tests open a new arena in vestibular system assessment for audiologists and auditory-vestibular researchers. According to spatial neural pathways evaluated during the potential recording, the test could be assume as a complemantary test for balance system assessment.Aim of present study was to provide a review of last information about different methods used for recording and evaluating the response changes in different vestibular disorders. Materials and Methods: Search were done among recent 10 years articles with vestibular evoked myogenic potential Keyword from electronic databases of Google Scholar, PubMed, Science Direct , Ebsco and refrence books related to the topic. Results:58 articleswere used for extension and description of main implications and used methods for doing vemp test. Conclusion:With doing the vestibular evoked myogenic potential test correctly and eliminating conflicting factors and with reliance on valid study results in this field the test could be used as an important diagnostic test in evaluating and monitoring of treatment process in different vestibular diseases. Keywords: vestibular evoked myogenic potential,vestibular system,vestibular diseases,saccule