A Belt for Better Balance
From: IEEE Spectrum - 10/14/2010
By: Joseph Calamia

Veterans with balance disorders will soon have the chance to try on an
unusual fashion accessory: a vibrating belt. Using what's called vibrotactile
feedback, the "balance belt" warns wearers with vibrating pulses when they
are about to tip too far in any direction. This month, the Department of
Veterans Affairs will begin a 4 to 6 week pilot study to test three of these
belts. 

Read the entire article at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/devices/balance-belt

Links:
Conrad Wall
http://www.masseyeandear.org/research/ent/jenks-vestibular/jenks-investigators/wall/

Determining the effectiveness of a vibrotactile balance prosthesis
http://web.mit.edu/shbt/research/citations/abstracts/wall_c_PMID_16917168.html

New Help for Dizzy Patients
http://www.drf.org/magazine/23/Fall+2006+Issue/article/71

Vest Helps Keep Balance-Disorder Patients from Wobbling
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/vest-helps-keep-balancedisorder-patients-from-wobbling/1