TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Foreword A1 - Herdman, Susan J. A1 - Clendaniel, Richard A. PY - 2014 T2 - Vestibular Rehabilitation AB - Benjamin Franklin once said, “Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” While there is substantial wisdom in that statement, I can think of at least one exception that might set old Ben on his rear, or is it ear? It is hard to believe that 20 years have passed since the first edition of Vestibular Rehabilitation was published. Yet even at its birth there was considerable wisdom in its words. At that time the responsibility for evaluating and rehabilitating patients presenting with dizziness and vestibular compromise was restricted to a select few, and this area of rehabilitation had not emerged as a specialty. Susan Herdman recognized a need to train rehabilitation clinicians to better understand and treat the postural compromise generated through visual deficits, headache or other maladies that would adversely impact the quality of life of those unfortunate enough to have acquired vestibular pathologies. The extent to which this knowledge has grown over these two decades and with it, the interest of students and clinicians is truly extraordinary. Throughout this time Vestibular Rehabilitation has remained the “go to” text for specialists in this area while also serving as a critical reference source for all neurorehabilitationists. SN - PB - F. A. Davis Company CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1135013938 ER -