Quality of life of individuals submitted to vestibular rehabilitation.

Braz J Otorhinolaryngol

Human Communications Disorders Graduate Program, UNIFESP.

Published: February 2010

Unlabelled: Balance disorders affect social, family and professional activities. Vestibular rehabilitation can reduce the impact of these disorders on the quality of life of individuals with vertigo.

Aim: to study the influence of vestibular rehabilitation on the quality of life of individuals, correlating it with gender, age, results from computerized vectoelectronystagmography and vertigo.

Study Type: Retrospective.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-two individuals were submitted to customized vestibular rehabilitation and the Brazilian Dizziness Handicap Inventory - DHI before and after vestibular rehabilitation. Results from this questionnaire were correlated with gender, age, vestibular assessment and the presence of vertigo.

Results: all the DHI scores reduced significantly after vestibular rehabilitation. There were no differences among genders; adults and elderly patients; irritative peripheral vestibular syndromes; deficiency syndromes and normal exams; the presence or absence of vertigo.

Conclusion: all the individuals had improvements in their quality of life after customized vestibular rehabilitation.

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