Objective Patients suffered a lot from decompensated vestibular vertigo.Pharmacotherapy and vestibular rehabilitation training have been proven to be effective in prompting vestibular compensation.Routine rehabilitati...Objective Patients suffered a lot from decompensated vestibular vertigo.Pharmacotherapy and vestibular rehabilitation training have been proven to be effective in prompting vestibular compensation.Routine rehabilitation training is faced with the challenges of patients’compliance,completion,the average recuperation time and so on.This study is aimed to investigate advantages of short-term personalized vestibular rehabihitation at home guided by professional therapist.Methods A short-term personalized vestibular rehabilitation program(ST-PVR)was designed for patients with decompensated vestibular vertigo in this study.Results Patients experiencing the ST-PVR program showed significant improvement of Self-Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS),Dizziness Handicap Inventory(DHI),Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale(ABC)scores by the second follow-up(at 2nd week after treatment,P<0.05).However-improvement in the medication group occurred slightly later,DHI for 1 month and SAS for 2 months after treatment(P<0.05).Also,the improvement in the onset time of unilateral weakness(UW)at 2nd week after treatment in the personalized vestibular rehabilitation(PVR)group was faster than that in the medication group.Conclusion In general,the short-term PVR program showed great advantages by prompting vestibular compensation quickly and putting forward future direction for clinical treatment on decompensated vestibular vertigo.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81870724)the Innovation Project of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission(No.19441900400)the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission(No.201740018).
文摘Objective Patients suffered a lot from decompensated vestibular vertigo.Pharmacotherapy and vestibular rehabilitation training have been proven to be effective in prompting vestibular compensation.Routine rehabilitation training is faced with the challenges of patients’compliance,completion,the average recuperation time and so on.This study is aimed to investigate advantages of short-term personalized vestibular rehabihitation at home guided by professional therapist.Methods A short-term personalized vestibular rehabilitation program(ST-PVR)was designed for patients with decompensated vestibular vertigo in this study.Results Patients experiencing the ST-PVR program showed significant improvement of Self-Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS),Dizziness Handicap Inventory(DHI),Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale(ABC)scores by the second follow-up(at 2nd week after treatment,P<0.05).However-improvement in the medication group occurred slightly later,DHI for 1 month and SAS for 2 months after treatment(P<0.05).Also,the improvement in the onset time of unilateral weakness(UW)at 2nd week after treatment in the personalized vestibular rehabilitation(PVR)group was faster than that in the medication group.Conclusion In general,the short-term PVR program showed great advantages by prompting vestibular compensation quickly and putting forward future direction for clinical treatment on decompensated vestibular vertigo.
