The effect of increased listening effort on the balance performance of patients with compensated vestibular lesion.

Objectives: This study investigated the effects of listening effort (LE) on balance in patients with compensated vestibular deficits compared to healthy peers.

Methods: The subjects included two main groups: a control group of 15 healthy subjects and a study group of 19 patients with compensated vestibular pathology. The computerized dynamic posturography test (CDP) was conducted without the speech-in-noise task as a baseline, then the participant was subjected to a dual task in which the auditory task (speech-in-noise sentences) was given as the primary task, and the balance function test was the secondary task.