About Nystagmocatcher

Nystagmocatcher® is a mobile phone adaptor and a medicine technical device for the europeen health care market. The device is CE/MDR certified class 1.

The devise i compatible with all IOS Apple mobile mobile phones and with majority of android mobile mobiles. For android mobile phones with more than 4 camera lenses picture tend to be blurry when using a single lens with the Nystagmocatcher.

Nystagmocatcher illuminates eye and prevents it from focusing. Clamp it over the camera lens of your mobile phone. Hold Nystagmocatcher against your right eye and record a video of 4,5 minutes lengh. At the same time, you should carry out eight examinations. Use another sound source than your mobile phone – a computer, tablet or another phone – to play our instructions sound file. The audio instructions will guide you through a standardized investigation schedule. Your doctor or physioterapist may give you another investigation schedule than ours.

After you have finished ideo recording the video clip will be saved in your mobile phone. The video clip will contain diagnostic information about your sense of balance. Carry out the examination during dizzy spells or periods of dizziness and loss of balance.

Despite the fact that scientific studies have established that over half of all dizziness and balance disorders are due to disturbances in the sense of balance, examinations of the sense of balance are not carried out in health care or the examinations are of poor quality. Making eye movements visible and analysing their patterns is the only way to understand balance impulses and balance disorders.

However, general health care often doesn’t have the equipment to elucidate eye movements and personnel might not be experienced in interpreting eye movements.

This is something we want to change. With a Nystagmocatcher and your mobile phone, you own the most important diagnostic dizzy tools yourself. In the case your doctor doesn’t test your sense of balance, you have to do it yourself! The diagnostics are most reliable if you do an examination and video recording exactly at the same time when you experience dizziness.

Nystagmocatcher is intended to be used with a mobile phone to document diagnostic eye movements in adults with ongoing dizziness or balance disorders.

In order not to risk a delay in the treatment of a stroke or other life-threatening conditions, the intended use is not the very first onset of illness but recurrent attacks and episodes of similar dizziness and balance symptoms.

Conduct a standardised dizziness examination that includes tests when your head is still, gaze direction tests, positional tests and head shaking tests. The purpose of the Nystagmocatcher is to capture diagnostic eye movements. Filmed eye movements during an attack of dizziness or an episode of ongoing position-related dizziness provide reliable and detailed information about the impulses of the sense of balance at the time of the examination.

If we can see one of your eyes and at the same time understand what examination you are performing, then we can comment on the function of the sense of balance at the time of the examination. For medico-legal reasons, our diagnostics are limited to the video-recorded eye movements and to the time period when you did the examination.

After your first submitted video we offer you a video consultation 20 minutes, during this meeting we can also assess your medical history and what symptoms you have experienced recently. Please prepare a written summary of your symptoms and when and how they started.

To create a video clip, you should be able to do the following 

For help with interpreting recorded eye movements, diagnosis and treatment advice, you should also be able to

if you have signs of a life-threatening illness, such as suspected acute brain disease or heart attack. 

Go to an emergency department if you have sudden dizziness and loss of balance in combination with any of the following symptoms