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Year: 1999  Vol. 3   Num. 2  - Apr/June Print:
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VESTIBULAR REHABILITATION AS A TREATMENT FOR DIZZINESS: EXPERIENCE WITH 116 CASES
REABILITAÇÃO VESTIBULAR COMO TRATAMENTO DA TONTURA: EXPERIÊNCIA COM 116 CASOS
Author(s):
1Maria Elisabete Bovino Pedalini, 2Roseli Saraiva Moreira Bittar, 3Lázaro Gilberto Formigoni, 4Oswaldo Laércio Mendonça Cruz, 5Ricardo Ferreira Bento, 6Aroldo Miniti
Abstract:

Balance maintenance is of fundamental importance to our routine activities. The vestibular system along with the vision and the proprioceptive sensibility are the main structures involved in this process. Dizziness and hallucinatory movements are the clinical expression of inadequate function of those systems. Vestibular adaptation is one of the least understood aspects of the vestibular diseases. It plays an important role in the everyday activities of the patient. The authors present their results with a program of vestibular rehabilitation with 116 patients, using mechanisms like potentiation of the cervico-ocular reflex and substitution of visual and somatosensory cues for the lost vestibular cues, first described by Cawthorne & Coosey’s. The results were amazing, with improvement of the symptoms in 75,7% of these patients. The authors concluded that vestibular rehabilitation is a useful toll in the management of many dizzy patients.

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