Onset and resolution failure of recurrent benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: the role of cervical range of motion.

Purpose: To explore possible associations between cervical spine mobility, measured by cervical range of motion (CROM) and a possible earlier onset of recurrent benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), as well as an increased failure rate of canalith repositioning procedures.

Methods: Medical records of 749 patients (247, 253 and 249 patients with a CROM ≤ 45°, between 45.1° and 55° and > 55.

Postural and clinical outcomes of sustained natural apophyseal glides treatment in cervicogenic dizziness patients: A randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate how self-report and posturographic measures could be affected in patients with cervicogenic dizziness undergoing sustained natural apophyseal glides.

Design: Randomised controlled single-blind study.

Setting: Tertiary rehabilitation centre.

Changes in body composition in unilateral vestibular hypofunction: relationships between bioelectrical impedance analysis and neuro-otological parameters.

Purpose: Experimental works have indicated the potential of the vestibular system to affect body composition to be mediated by its extensive connections to brainstem nuclei involved in regulating metabolism and feeding behavior. The aim of this study was to evaluate-by means of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA)-the body composition in a group of chronic UVH normal-weighted patients when compared with an equally balanced group of healthy participants, serving as a control group (CG).

Methods: Forty-six chronic UVH and 60 CG participants underwent otoneurological (including video Head Impulse Test [vHIT] and static posturography testing [SPT]), BIA measurements and self-report (SRM) and performance measures (PM).

Reciprocal roles of joint position error, visual dependency and subjective perception in cervicogenic dizziness.

Aim: Since cervical joint position error (JPE) and visual dependency (VD) may reflect altered ascending inputs from the neck receptors, the aim of the present study was to test how these parameters may be impacted by those clinical parameters in cervicogenic dizziness (CGD) patients when compared with healthy subjects participants.

Materials And Methods: 93 subjects participants fulfilling inclusion criteria for CGD and 98 age- and gender-matched healthy subjects volunteers - undergoing cervical relocation and rod and disc test to evaluate JPE and VD, respectively - were compared to each other. Cervical range of motion (CROM), Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), Neck Disability Index (NDI), Neck pain intensity (NPI), Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK-17) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were also collected in both groups.

Temporomandibular disorders and cervicogenic dizziness: Relations between cervical range of motion and clinical parameters.

Objective: To analyze the cervical range of motion (CROM) and clinical parameters in patients affected by myogenous temporomandibular disorders (TMD), cervicogenic dizziness (CGD), both TMD and CGD (TMD/CGD), and a group of healthy subjects (HS).

Methods: CROM degrees, Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK-17), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Jaw Functional Limitation Scale 20 (JFLS-20) scores were compared between 46 TMD patients, 49 CGD subjects, 43 TMD/CGD patients, and 98 HS.

Results: TMD/CGD and CGD patients demonstrated significantly lower CROM degrees and higher DHI, TSK-17, and HADS values when compared to TMD patients.