**5.9 Dizziness handicap inventory (DHI)**

The inventory consists in 25-item questionnaire that assesses possible causes of balance issues and evaluate the impact of it in the quality of life (**Figure 9**). The possibly responses are "yes", "no" or "maybe". The DHI is distributed into three areas; emotional, functional, and physical to better identify the root cause of the dizziness The answers are graded and summed (varying in 100 to 0 total points), considering a higher score an indication of higher perceived handicap [34].
