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. 2005 Jul-Aug;71(4):440-7.
doi: 10.1016/s1808-8694(15)31196-4. Epub 2005 Dec 15.

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

Lucia Kazuko Nishino  1 , Cristina de Freitas Ganança, Andrea Manso, Carlos Alberto Herrerias de Campos, Gustavo P Korn
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Personalized vestibular rehabilitation: medical chart survey with patients seen at the ambulatory of otoneurology of I.S.C.M.S.P

Lucia Kazuko Nishino et al. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2005 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

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. Those patients went through otoneurologic evaluation and after diagnosis they were referred to vestibular rehabilitation. Each patient followed a specific program based on diagnosis, clinical disease and symptoms. We performed an individual analysis of the evaluation of each patient and group analysis in order to verify the efficiency of the PVR.

Conclusion: It was possible to conclude that the PVR program is an effective resource in the treatment of otoneurologic symptoms of patients, consequently improving their quality of life.

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Figure 1
Characterization of age range.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Characterization of the result of the vestibular exam. Key: SVPDU: Unilateral Deficit Peripheral Vestibular Syndrome /SVPIU = Unilateral Irritative Peripheral Vestibular Syndrome/ SVPI = Irritative Peripheral Vestibular Syndrome / SVPIB= Bilateral Irritative Peripheral Vestibular Syndrome/SC = Central Syndrome / NORMAL= Normal Vestibular Exam
Figure 2
Figure 2
Characterization of diagnostic hypotheses (value in percentage).
Figure 3
Figure 3
Characterization of otoneurological symptoms referred by patients.
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