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iPhone App Helps To Cure Vertigo

Posted by Soulskill on from the stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off dept.

vleky writes "This is thinking outside the box ... or head. Dr. Matthew Bromwich of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario has written an iPhone app to help doctors with the Epley maneuver to cure some forms of vertigo. The patient places the iPhone against his or her forehead and the app leads the doctor through the maneuver. Bromwich's first attempt at the app sounded even more fun. With that version, the iPhone hung from the front of a baseball cap the patient wore, and the patient tried to keep a ball centered in a twisting tube by moving their head. Winning the game meant the maneuver had been successfully completed and the vertigo cured."

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  1. iPhone cures vertigo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    iPhone app cures certain types of vertigo?

    You're pulling my leg. I'm not going to fall for that.

    1. Re:iPhone cures vertigo? by pushing-robot · · Score: 4, Funny

      2) head tilted 45 degrees to the right
      3) tilt head 90 degrees to the left
      4) tilt head another 90 degrees to the left

      uh... pictures?

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    2. Re:iPhone cures vertigo? by sjames · · Score: 4, Funny

      So, at what point do you projectile vomit on the priest?

    3. Re:iPhone cures vertigo? by davester666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Whenever the priest is inline with whatever direction your head happens to be facing, same as always...

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  2. I bet that... by broknstrngz · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...when a perpetuum mobile is finally invented, it will run on an iPhone.

  3. Um... what now? by KharmaWidow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doctors are putting a cell phone that causes nearly all my other gadgets to buzz next to the developing brain of a child?

  4. We invented the damn internet by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

    an iPhone app to cure the most common cases of vertigo, which about 300,000 Canadians develop annually.

    I DON'T WANT THIS FUCKING METRIC UNIT CRAP!

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