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Unilateral Peripheral Vestibular Dysfunction: Reeducation and Spatial Orientation.

NCT03171181 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2018-05-11

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Summary

Motor control includes postural control and voluntary movement. For an optimal motor control it is necessary that brain integrates vestibular, visual and somatosensorial inputs properly, in a nonlinear way. Vestibular system, as an afferent organ, encodes head position in relation to gravity and changes in its linear and angular acceleration. As vestibular central system, it plays an essential role in motor control and in orientation and spatial memory as well.

When a peripheral vestibular lesion occurs, elaboration, interpretation and processing of inputs are deficient and therefore motor control is altered to a greater or lesser degree. As process progress in time, there is a natural neuroplasticity that facilitates recovery or compensate vestibular function, although sometimes this process is incomplete and requires vestibular reeducation This study aims to assess changes in balance control, orientation and handicap perception in one case group with symptomatic unilateral peripheral vestibular dysfunction, before and after a rehabilitation programme (RV). To compare values obtained at the beginning and at the end of RV to those achieved by control group. Finally, this research aims to analyse evolution of spatial orientation quality in symptomatic and non symptomatic participants.

Conditions

  • Inner Ear Disease
  • Equilibrium; Disorder, Labyrinth
  • Spatial Navigation

Interventions

OTHER

Vestibular reeducation

Balance quality was registered with static and dynamic posturography. For spatial orientation is was registered Visual vertical and visual orientation perception. Vestibular disability was also assessed. Variables were registered at the beginning and at the end of a vestibular rehabilitation in UPVD participants. Vestibular rehabilitation consisted of 10 sessions of vestibular rehabilitation using dynamic posturography and visual reeducation. Duration of each session: 40 minutes. Twice a week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aragon Institute of Health Sciences

    collaborator OTHER

  • Universidad de Zaragoza

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ana Bengoetxea-Arrese, PhD · Université Libre de Bruxelles

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
66 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-11-30
Primary Completion
2015-03-31
Completion
2015-08-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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