Improving Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential Reliability by using a Blood Pressure Manometer

Objective/Hypothesis: To improve the reliability of vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP), we propose a feedback method making use of a readily available blood pressure manometer with inflatable cuff to control the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) contraction.

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