ABOUT US

Preventing falls and protecting your patient’s independence with proper fall prevention programs, evaluations and treatment is imperative to your patient’s well being not to mention your practice or health care facility. Vertigon Balance Diagnostics and Fall Prevention is a subsidiary of SureSteps4u, LLC specializing in the evaluation, treatment and prevention of falls for patients of providers and health care facilities nationwide. Vertigon delivers comprehensive nationwide mobile diagnostic testing of balance disorders in those patients identified at risk for falls and provides professional reading of the tests results by a board certified medical specialist on in a HIPPA compliant format. In addition, we provide the tools to objectively identify a patient's risk for falls and treat your patient’s symptoms of dizziness, stumbling, vertigo, disequilibrium, wall or furniture walking, room or head spinning. All in 3 steps.


Step 1: Balance & Hearing Screening Test

This step can be performed one of two ways:
1. Without technology utilizing Comprehensive Balance Questionnaires to assist in identifying a patient’s risk for falls and hearing deficiency.
2. With technology utilizing an objective one-minute balance test using the Metitur Good Balance Evaluator will identify patients at risk for falling. A Rhomberg eye open and Rhomberg eye closed using a normative patient database of over 9,000 subjects. An air conduction test using the Bluetooth T4 automatic audiometer provides you with a baseline on the patients hearing. Further testing or hearing aids may be recommended based on the test results. (3-5 minutes)*

*Tests conducted by your MA in office

"Hearing loss is the third most prevalent chronic health condition among older Americans, after high blood pressure and arthritis.”
-Journal of the American Medical Association


Step 2: Diagnostic Testing

With the use of mobile diagnostic services, our qualified technicians perform all of the testing in your facility. We supply the equipment, technician, scheduling, testing, billing and interpretation by a board certified medical specialist. After we begin testing your referred patients, our technologist will log their time in and out for each test that they complete the evaluations in your office. These times are reported to our office each day and entered into our computer system. The fees due to you for the tests conducted during the month are calculated at the end of the month and paid to you according to the contract between Vertigon and your facility. You determine which patients need testing. Referrals for these patients will be sent to our office via FAX or through the website. That’s IT! After the patient is pre-certified for testing our staff then contacts the patient to let them know that they have been approved for testing and we schedule them for testing according to the available times and dates for testing determined by your office.

*Tests conducted in office
 

Step 3: Treatment

Treatment may consist of Vestibular rehabilitation, hearing devices and custom durable medical equipment when indicated. Vestibular rehabilitation is a specialized form of physical therapy designed to promote habituation and compensation for a wide variety of balance and vestibular disorders. The goal is to improve balance, decrease dizziness, and minimize falls by restoring vestibular function and postural control. There are many causes or reasons why a patient may need a vestibular and balance evaluation. Some of these reasons may include:

• Labyrinthitis-inner ear infection
• Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
• Acute vertigo caused by head trauma or whiplash
• Chronic vertigo caused by chemical or drug toxicity
• Acoustic neuromas
• Meniere’s Disease
• Age-related multi-sensory deficits
• Stroke and vascular insufficiencies

We can provide your staff with all the tools to initiate a vestibular program in your office or provide a Physical Therapist for contract services at your office or facility. When your patients require specific durable medical equipment or hearing intervention, Vertigion provides the materials, equipment, qualified personnel to make the service easy.
We work exclusively with Medical providers and facilities by delivering a complete fall prevention program. Our services are available to health care providers in part or whole based on individual needs. Regardless of whether you are a physician or a health care facility desiring to implement an effective fall prevention program contact us for more information on how Vertigon can assist you in meeting your goals.