What We're About

Vestibular First is a startup founded in 2017 that is focused on offering affordable and empowering vestibular education and technologies to clinicians, researchers, and students. Our goal is to improve the lives of those suffering from vestibular disorders by having the best trained and equipped clinicians possible!
Vestibular First is a startup founded in 2017 that is focused on offering affordable and empowering vestibular education and technologies to clinicians, researchers, and students. Our goal is to improve the lives of those suffering from vestibular disorders by having the best trained and equipped clinicians possible!
Insight Infrared Video Goggles - Modular and expandable infrared video goggles designed for vestibular clinicians of all levels to diagnose and treat vestibular disorders. We built our goggles from the ground up for busy clinicians in inpatient, outpatient, and homecare settings.
Insight Infrared Video Goggles - Modular and expandable infrared video goggles designed for vestibular clinicians of all levels to diagnose and treat vestibular disorders. We built our goggles from the ground up for busy clinicians in inpatient, outpatient, and homecare settings.
Fluid-Filled Vestibular Apparatus - Educate patients about BPPV and let them watch the otoconia crystals fall with our fluid-filled vestibular apparatus model.
Fluid-Filled Vestibular Apparatus - Educate patients about BPPV and let them watch the otoconia crystals fall with our fluid-filled vestibular apparatus model.
DIY 3D Vestibular Models - We have developed step-by-step instructions, material lists, and the 3D files so you can make your own anatomical models at home!
DIY 3D Vestibular Models - We have developed step-by-step instructions, material lists, and the 3D files so you can make your own anatomical models at home!

Company History



When Helena Esmonde transitioned from a large hospital-based outpatient vestibular clinic to a small, privately owned clinic, she found herself without the use of the infrared video goggles she had become accustomed to using for her patients’ care. Her new workplace was an independent, PT/PTA co-owned physical therapy clinic that could not afford the minimum $8500 price tag for a pair among the current ones on the market. She brought this problem to her husband Patrick Esmonde, and he said, “Tell me more about the goggles.” After an explanation and research, he said, “I can build that.” And so, necessity once more became the mother of invention, and Patrick developed infrared video goggles that not only did what a vestibular therapist would need them to do, but he built them at a much lower cost. When Helena discovered that this was possible, she asked (perhaps nearly demanded) that they make these infrared video goggles available to countless other researchers, clinicians, and educators whose organizations could not afford such useful but costly technology. For this reason, Vestibular First came to be!