Patent ID: 6609523
Filing Date: 2003-08-26
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A method of performing a statistical determination as to whether a person has benign paroxysmal positional vertigo of any of the semicircular canals based upon answers provided by a person to questions stored in a central computer systems located at a distance spaced from said person comprising the steps of:carrying out communication by said person to access said central computer system to obtain said questions stored in said central computer system, communicating said questions to said person, answering said questions and communicating said answered questions to said central computer system, evaluating the answers to said questions and determining the percentage chance that said person has benign paroxysmal positional vertigo of any of the semicircular canals, communicating to said person, the percentage chance that said person has benign paroxysmal positional vertigo which would be responsive to canalith repositioning maneuvers directed to any of the semicircular canals, if it is determined that said person would be responsive to canalith repositioning maneuvers, based on said percentage chance, communicating to said person an offer to sell to said person an apparatus which will guide the head positioning of said person to allow the diagnosis of which membranous semicircular canal is involved if said answers do not indicate the involved membranous canal.