Dizziness Handicap Inventory and Visual Vertigo Analog Scale in Vestibular Dysfunction.

Introduction: Dizziness is one of the most common symptoms among the population, producing numerous consequences for individual's quality of life. There are some questionnaires that can trace the patient's profile and quality of life impairment from dizziness, including the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and the Visual Vertigo Analogue Scale (VVAS).

Objective: This study aims to correlate the results of the DHI and VVAS in patients with vestibular dysfunction.

Vestibular rehabilitation with visual stimuli in peripheral vestibular disorders.

Introduction: Visual stimuli can induce vestibular adaptation and recovery of body balance.

Objective: To verify the effect of visual stimuli by digital images on vestibular and body balance rehabilitation of peripheral vestibular disorders.

Methods: Clinical, randomized, prospective study.

Personalized vestibular rehabilitation: medical chart survey with patients seen at the ambulatory of otoneurology of I.S.C.M.S.P.

Unlabelled: The objective of this research study was to verify the efficiency of the personalized vestibular rehabilitation (PVR) in different otoneurologic clinical diseases, as well as set the best protocol option in each case.

Study Design: Clinical retrospective.

Material And Method: A retrospective study was conducted based on the description of the vestibular rehabilitation program of 37 patients aged 21 to 87 years, twenty-six females and eleven males, with different clinical diseases seen in the Otoneurologic Ambulatory of Otolaryngology, department of Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Sao Paulo, from 2002 to 2003.