This book puts the focus on Ménière’s disease regarding actual questions and a pragmatic approach to the illness, which is characterized by spasmodic rotatory vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus. The aim of this book is to offer perspectives and guidance for persons affected by Ménière’s disease and their relatives as well as members of medical and psychotherapeutic staff. In case of Ménière’s disease the suffering may result in an anxious observation of an increasingly limited movement space combined with insecurity and helplessness in addition to the organic impairment (hearing difficulties). Moreover an occupational disability and depressive developments may occur. Nonetheless, as this work will show, help and support are possible and available. Sidenote: This book is the 1st edition in English based on the translation of the updated 8th edition published in German. Content: Information about recent findings dealing with the illness – Refined medical possibilies and boundaries – Improved psychosomatic approach and handling of the illnessThe Author: Dr. med. Helmut Schaaf had worked as an anaesthesiologist, until he fell ill from Ménière’s disease himself. He had to stop working in his original profession. Since 1994 Dr. med. Helmut Schaaf has worked as senior physician in charge and head of the otolaryngology department at the „Tinnitus-Klinik Dr. Hesse“ in Bad Arolsen (Germany). He has already published several books and scientific essays on topics like vertigo, tinnitus, dizziness e.g. rotatory vertigo and Ménière’s disease.This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Morbus Menière by Helmut Schaaf published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2017.The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
