Maheu M, Behtani L, Nooristani M, et al. - Researchers examined how the auditory cues influence postural sway in normal-hearing (NH) individuals, hearing-impaired individuals with vestibular impairment (HIVL), or hearing-impaired (HI) individuals without vestibular impairment. They performed a hearing and a vestibular evaluation (vHIT, oVEMP, cVEMP) on 32 participants and then separated the participants into three groups (NH, HI, HIVL). In four postural conditions (A: EO/firm, B: EC/firm, C: EO/Foam, D: EC/Foam), all participants were made to stand on a force platform under two auditory conditions, with or without auditory cues. As per outcomes, there was a significant difference between HIVL and both HI and NH groups in conditions C and D without auditory cues; there was greater improvement for HIVL vs NH and HI groups in condition C and D with auditory cues; there was a significant decrease in somatosensory reliance among the HIVL participants using hearing aids compared to NH and HI. This study thereby suggests that vestibular function modulates the benefit of hearing aids for postural control.