[Medico-legal assessment of vestibular disturbances (author's transl)].

In the medico-legal assessment of vestibular disturbances the degree of handicap in daily and occupational situations is to be considered. Therefore a five degree classification of everyday performances (physiological stimuli of daily life) involving the vestibular system and a grading of vestibular disorders based on subjective and objective symptoms have been compiled. A diagram relating intensity of vestibular disturbance with performance gives the percentage of reduction in working capacity (MdE).