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PURPOSE: This study investigated the feasibility of acceptance and commitment therapy for persistent postural-perceptual dizziness and preliminarily verified the long-term effectiveness of the therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study implemented the within-group pre-post comparison design. We enrolled 27 adult patients who met the criteria of persistent postural-perceptual dizziness. They underwent a treatment program including acceptance and commitment therapy combined with vestibular rehabilitation once a week for a total of six sessions. The primary outcome was changes in the Dizziness Handicap Inventory score 6 months posttreatment. RESULTS: All 27 patients completed the acceptance and commitment therapy + vestibular rehabilitation program, and 25 patients (92.6%) could be followed for 6 months posttreatment. For 27 participants, the scores from pretreatment to 6 months posttreatment significantly declined (P < .001), and the Dizziness Handicap Inventory effect size was 1.11 (95% confidence interval = 0.80-1.42). At 6 months posttreatment, 11 patients (40.7%) achieved remission (the score ≤ 14), 16 (59.3%) achieved treatment response (reduction in the score ≥ 18), and 20 (74.1%) achieved remission and/or treatment response. CONCLUSIONS: Acceptance and commitment therapy is feasible for persistent postural-perceptual dizziness and might have long-term effectiveness. However, a randomized controlled trial is warranted.
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Terapia de Aceitação e Compromisso/métodos , Tontura/reabilitação , Tontura/terapia , Reabilitação Neurológica/métodos , Projetos Piloto , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Doenças Vestibulares/terapia , Vestíbulo do Labirinto/fisiopatologia , Tontura/etiologia , Estudos de Viabilidade , Humanos , Percepção de Movimento/fisiologia , Equilíbrio Postural/fisiologia , Fatores de Tempo , Resultado do Tratamento , Doenças Vestibulares/complicaçõesRESUMO
Purpose Tai chi is receiving increasing research attention with its benefit of improving flexibility and balance. The objective of this review was to examine the evidence concerning the impact of tai chi as a practical therapy for vestibular rehabilitation on individuals with balance and vestibular disorders. Method A systematic review using 4 electronic databases was conducted. Randomized clinical trials and quasi-experimental studies were included. Results Four studies met the inclusion criteria and were included for data analysis. Results indicate positive effect of tai chi practice on dynamic postural stability in balance of its practitioners. Conclusion Tai chi may be a useful therapy as for vestibular rehabilitation as it improves dynamic balance control and flexibility of individuals with balance and vestibular disorders.
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Equilíbrio Postural , Transtornos de Sensação/reabilitação , Tai Chi Chuan , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , HumanosRESUMO
Vestibular rehabilitation is an exercise-based program that has been in existence for over 70 years. A growing body of evidence supports the use of vestibular rehabilitation in patients with vestibular disorders, and evolving research has led to more efficacious interventions. Through central compensation, vestibular rehabilitation is able to improve symptoms of imbalance, falls, fear of falling, oscillopsia, dizziness, vertigo, motion sensitivity and secondary symptoms such as nausea and anxiety. Early intervention is advised for falls prevention and symptom management; however, symptomatic patients with chronic vestibular disorders may still demonstrate benefit from a course of vestibular rehabilitation. Recent advances in balance and gait training, gaze stability training, habituation training, use of virtual reality, biofeedback, and vestibular prostheses are discussed in this chapter in the context of unilateral and bilateral vestibular disorders.
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Acidentes por Quedas/prevenção & controle , Terapia por Exercício , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Biorretroalimentação Psicológica , Humanos , Equilíbrio Postural , Doenças Vestibulares/fisiopatologia , Terapia de Exposição à Realidade VirtualRESUMO
When a lightly touched surface is moved according to a closed-loop control law, it has been shown in young adults that the centre of pressure (CoP) can be displaced in a controllable way without the conscious cooperation of participants. In this closed-loop paradigm, the surface velocity was continuously adjusted according to the CoP position. Since the closed-loop control of the CoP does not require the participant's voluntary cooperation, it could be of interest for the development of innovative biofeedback devices in balance rehabilitation. Before anticipating the implementation of this closed-loop control paradigm with patients, it is necessary to establish its effects on people suffering from balance impairments. The aim of this paper was to assess the effects of this CoP closed-loop control in post-stroke (PS) patients and aged-matched healthy controls. Efficacy of the closed-loop control for driving the patients' CoP was assessed using the saturation time and two scores computing the error between the predefined and the current CoP trajectories. 68% and 83% of the trials were considered as successful in patients and controls, respectively. The global tracking error of the closed-loop score was similar between the two groups. However, when examining the real CoP displacement from the starting position to the desired one, PS patients responded to the closed-loop control to a lesser extent than controls. These results, obtained in the same conditions for healthy and PS individuals could be improved by tuning the closed-loop parameters according to individual characteristics. This paper paves the road towards the development of involuntary/automatic biofeedback techniques in more ecological conditions.
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Reabilitação do Acidente Vascular Cerebral/instrumentação , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/complicações , Doenças Vestibulares/etiologia , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Idoso , Algoritmos , Biorretroalimentação Psicológica , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Desenho de Equipamento , Feminino , Voluntários Saudáveis , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Postura , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/fisiopatologia , Doenças Vestibulares/fisiopatologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The two different types of balance prostheses being developed, implants and vibro-tactile/auditory feedback prostheses, rely on different measures to prove efficacy (those based on vestibular ocular reflexes versus balance control, respectively). Here we provide evidence that examining muscle activity might provide a useful alternative for both. METHODS: The muscle activity of 6 bilateral vestibular loss (BVL) and 7 age-matched healthy controls (HC) was examined while standing eyes closed on a foam support surface. Pelvis and upper trunk angular movements were recorded in the roll and pitch planes. Surface EMG was recorded from the lower leg, trunk and upper arm muscles. BVL subjects were first assessed without feedback of pelvis sway, then received training with combined vibro-tactile and auditory feedback, before being re-assessed with feedback. RESULTS: Feedback reduced the amplitudes of pelvis and shoulder sway to values of HC without feedback. Both the level of background EMG activity and the EMG area amplitudes changed when feedback was provided in a manner consistent with the reduced amplitude modulation of muscle synergies of HC. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study indicate that changed muscle synergy amplitudes underlie improvements in sway achieved by BVL subjects. The concept of this investigation may provide a means to prove efficacy for different types of balance prostheses, including implants.
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Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/métodos , Músculo Esquelético/fisiologia , Equilíbrio Postural , Próteses e Implantes , Tato , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Vibração , Estimulação Acústica , Adulto , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Eletromiografia , Feminino , Voluntários Saudáveis , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Movimento , Desenho de PróteseRESUMO
The article presents the results of studying the effectiveness of the complex vestibular workouts based on non-invasive neuromodulation technology in 37 healthy patients aged 18-20 years who have symptoms of aerial sickness in 5 or less minutes. Non-invasive neuromodulation wire-familiarize with the apparatus for vestibular rehabilitation "Brain-Port" (USA), performing electric tactile stimulation of the tongue with biofeedback. An indicator of statokinetic stability was considered from time to tolerance to the vestibular load up to development of vegetative manifestations of aerial sickness. 'Improvement of statokinetic tolerability vestibular training confirmed by computed posturography and gait analysis. Increase of statokinetic stability accompanied not only by an increase in exposure, necessary for motion sickness, but also a decrease in autonomic manifestations, which are the main obstacle to the operator's military activities. Improving balance and gait performance after the swipe-of vestibular training course demonstrates the possible realization of two mechanisms of compensatory and restorative processes: sensory substitution equilibrium function and induction of neuroplasticity in short time.
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Biorretroalimentação Psicológica , Equilíbrio Postural/fisiologia , Língua/inervação , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Vestíbulo do Labirinto/fisiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/instrumentação , Humanos , Masculino , Enjoo devido ao Movimento/fisiopatologia , Enjoo devido ao Movimento/reabilitação , Estimulação Física/métodos , Resultado do Tratamento , Doenças Vestibulares/fisiopatologia , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Introduction Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is one of themost common and treatable causes of peripheral vestibular vertigo in adults. Its incidence increases with age, eventually leading to disability and a decreased quality of life. Objective The research aims to assess short-term effects of Otolith Repositioning Maneuver (ORM) on dizziness symptoms, quality of life, and postural balance in elderly people with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. Methods A quasi-experimental study, which evaluated 14 elderly people that underwent the Otolith Repositioning Maneuver and reevaluation after one week. The authors performed statistical analysis by descriptive analysis of central tendency and dispersion; for pre- and post-treatment conditions, the authors used the Wilcoxon test. Results All aspects of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (physical, functional, emotional, and total scores) as well as the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) decreased after therapy (p < 0.05 and p = 0.001, respectively). However, more than half of the elderly participants did not achieve negative Dix-Hallpike. Regarding static and dynamic balance, there were significant differences in some parameters of the modified Clinical Test of Sensory Interaction and Balance, Limits of Stability and gait assessment measured by the Dizziness Gait Index (p < 0.05). Conclusion Results reveal clinical and functional benefits in elderly people with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo submitted to Otolith Repositioning Maneuver. However, most of the participants did not overcome Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo and not all aspects of postural balance improved. Therefore, a longer follow-up period and a multidisciplinary team are required to establish comprehensive care for elderly patients with dizziness complaints.
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Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Idoso , Vertigem Posicional Paroxística Benigna/terapia , Equilíbrio Postural , Qualidade de Vida , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitaçãoRESUMO
ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Some patients with severe impairment of body balance do not obtain adequate improvement from vestibular rehabilitation (VR). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of Vertiguard(tm) biofeedback equipment as a sensory substitution (SS) of the vestibular system in patients who did not obtain sufficient improvement from VR. METHODS: This was a randomized prospective clinical study. Thirteen patients without satisfactory response to conventional VR were randomized into a study group (SG), which received the vibrotactile stimulus from Vertiguard(tm) for ten days, and a control group (CG), which used equipment without the stimulus. For pre- and post-treatment assessment, the Sensory Organization Test (SOT) protocol of the Computerized Dynamic Posturography (CDP) and two scales of balance self-perception, Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) and Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), were used. RESULTS: After treatment, only the SG showed statistically significant improvement in C5 (p = 0.007) and C6 (p = 0.01). On the ABC scale, there was a significant difference in the SG (p= 0.04). The DHI showed a significant difference in CG and SG with regard to the physical aspect, and only in the SG for the functional aspect (p = 0.04). CONCLUSION: The present findings show that sensory substitution using the vibrotactile stimulus of the Vertiguard(tm) system helped with the integration of neural networks involved in maintaining posture, improving the strategies used in the recovery of body balance.
RESUMO INTRODUÇÃO: Alguns pacientes com déficit severo do equilíbrio corporal submetidos à reabilitação vestibular (RV) podem não apresentar resultados satisfatórios. OBJETIVO: Verificar a eficácia do equipamento de biofeedback Vertiguard(tm) como substituto sensorial do sistema vestibular em pacientes sem bons resultados à RV. MÉTODO: Estudo prospectivo clínico randomizado. Treze pacientes sem resposta satisfatória à RV convencional foram randomizados entre grupo de estudo (GE), que utilizou o estímulo vibratório do Vertiguard(tm) por dez dias e grupo controle (GC) que usou o equipamento desligado. Para avaliação pré e pós-tratamento foi utilizado o protocolo Teste de Integração Sensorial (TIS) da Posturografia Dinâmica Computadorizada (PDC) e duas escalas de autopercepção do equilíbrio: ABC (Activities-specific Balance Confidence) e DHI (Dizziness Handicap Inventory). RESULTADOS: Apenas o GE apresentou melhora estatisticamente significante em C5 (p = 0,007) e C6 (p = 0,01) da PDC após treinamento. Na escala ABC houve diferença significante no GE (p = 0,04). No DHI ocorreu diferença significante no aspecto físico em ambos os grupos e no aspecto funcional (p= 0,04) apenas no GE. CONCLUSÃO: O estímulo de substituição sensorial do Vertiguard(tm) auxiliou a integração das redes neurais e na manutenção da postura, melhorando as estratégias utilizadas na recuperação do equilíbrio corporal.
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Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/instrumentação , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Testes de Função Vestibular/instrumentação , Equilíbrio Postural , Resultado do Tratamento , Doenças Vestibulares/etiologia , Doenças Vestibulares/fisiopatologiaRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Some patients with severe impairment of body balance do not obtain adequate improvement from vestibular rehabilitation (VR). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of Vertiguard™ biofeedback equipment as a sensory substitution (SS) of the vestibular system in patients who did not obtain sufficient improvement from VR. METHODS: This was a randomized prospective clinical study. Thirteen patients without satisfactory response to conventional VR were randomized into a study group (SG), which received the vibrotactile stimulus from Vertiguard™ for ten days, and a control group (CG), which used equipment without the stimulus. For pre- and post-treatment assessment, the Sensory Organization Test (SOT) protocol of the Computerized Dynamic Posturography (CDP) and two scales of balance self-perception, Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) and Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), were used. RESULTS: After treatment, only the SG showed statistically significant improvement in C5 (p=0.007) and C6 (p=0.01). On the ABC scale, there was a significant difference in the SG (p=0.04). The DHI showed a significant difference in CG and SG with regard to the physical aspect, and only in the SG for the functional aspect (p=0.04). CONCLUSION: The present findings show that sensory substitution using the vibrotactile stimulus of the Vertiguard™ system helped with the integration of neural networks involved in maintaining posture, improving the strategies used in the recovery of body balance.
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Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/instrumentação , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Testes de Função Vestibular/instrumentação , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Equilíbrio Postural , Resultado do Tratamento , Doenças Vestibulares/etiologia , Doenças Vestibulares/fisiopatologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Dizziness is a major consequence of imbalance and vestibular dysfunction. Compared to surgery and drug treatments, balance training is non-invasive and more desired. However, training exercises are usually tedious and the assessment tool is insufficient to diagnose patient's severity rapidly. METHODS: An interactive virtual reality (VR) game-based rehabilitation program that adopted Cawthorne-Cooksey exercises, and a sensor-based measuring system were introduced. To verify the therapeutic effect, a clinical experiment with 48 patients and 36 normal subjects was conducted. Quantified balance indices were measured and analyzed by statistical tools and a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. RESULTS: In terms of balance indices, patients who completed the training process are progressed and the difference between normal subjects and patients is obvious. CONCLUSIONS: Further analysis by SVM classifier show that the accuracy of recognizing the differences between patients and normal subject is feasible, and these results can be used to evaluate patients' severity and make rapid assessment.
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Diagnóstico por Computador/métodos , Tontura/diagnóstico , Tontura/reabilitação , Terapia Assistida por Computador/métodos , Interface Usuário-Computador , Doenças Vestibulares/diagnóstico , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Adulto , Algoritmos , Inteligência Artificial , Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/instrumentação , Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/métodos , Diagnóstico por Computador/instrumentação , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Reconhecimento Automatizado de Padrão/métodos , Terapia Assistida por Computador/instrumentação , Resultado do Tratamento , Jogos de VídeoRESUMO
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of fear of falling (FoF) on older patients with dizziness history and their caregivers to better determine holistic needs when developing a patient-family centered approach to falling risk reduction. METHOD: A mixed-method design was used, incorporating a phenomenological qualitative approach to explore the impact of FoF in 14 patients and a family member or spouse of each patient. Quantitative analysis was used to further interpret results of interviews conducted before and after participation in a vestibular and balance rehabilitation program designed to reduce falling risk and improve balance confidence. RESULTS: Qualitative analysis of participant interviews pre and post vestibular rehabilitation revealed lifestyle changes for both participants and family caregivers due to FoF and the need for reducing falling concerns. Patient age showed statistically significant differences in levels of balance confidence, with younger participants (≤ 65 years) showing more concerns about the consequences of falling, even after rehabilitation, than older participants (> 65 years). CONCLUSION: The study highlights the impact of FoF on participation and activity levels of patients and family caregivers, as well as the need to thoroughly evaluate falling fears to achieve a holistic rehabilitation outcome.
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Acidentes por Quedas , Atitude Frente a Saúde , Tontura/reabilitação , Medo/psicologia , Equilíbrio Postural , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Cuidadores/psicologia , Tontura/psicologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Pesquisa Qualitativa , Doenças Vestibulares/psicologiaRESUMO
Vestibular rehabilitation is effective and safe in patients with instability. However, there is insufficient evidence for distinguishing between efficacies of different dosage of therapies. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to verify whether there were differences between two computerised dynamic posturography (CDP) therapies of different numbers of sessions, in order to establish the optimal strategy. We conducted a prospective, comparative study of two different dosage of CDP therapy (a 5-session group and another of 10-session group) in patients with instability due to chronic unilateral peripheral vestibular disorder. We used balanced block randomisation to include 13 patients in each group. Improvement was assessed using the Dizziness Handicap Inventory and the CDP with the sensorial organisation test (SOT) and limits of stability (LOS). We found a statistically significant improvement in both groups in composite score, visual and vestibular input (SOT); and in reaction time, distance and directional control (LOS). If we compare the groups regarding these improvements, we found that 10-session group showed a greater benefit in distance covered and directional control of LOS. Since significant improvement is obtained with only five sessions, we believe this to be the optimal number of treatment sessions for most patients with chronic unilateral peripheral vestibular disorder. Nevertheless, those patients with more reduced limits of stability, and consequently greater likelihood of falling as a result of their diminished base of support, are candidates for rehabilitation protocols with a greater number of sessions.
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Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/métodos , Labirintite/reabilitação , Equilíbrio Postural , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Neuronite Vestibular/reabilitação , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estimulação Luminosa/métodos , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Kinesitherapy is widely accepted management in patients with vertigo and imbalance, but there has been inadequate evidence that one form of therapy is superior to another. THE AIM: of the study was to compare effectiveness of two kinesitherapy protocols in patients with the peripheral vestibular system disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Fifty patients (mean age 46.0±13.1 year) with vertigo and balance instability lasting over 3 months with unilateral vestibular disorder, confirmed in Videnystagmography, were included in the study. Thirty patients underwent supervised and 20 patients home-based exercise programs. All of them were assessed three times at the baseline, after 4 weeks and 3 months, on vertigo intensity and frequency with the Vertigo Syndrome Scale (VSS), Vertigo Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and clinical unsteadiness with tests (Romberg, Amended Motor Club Assesment (AMCA), Eurofit test - standing on one leg. RESULTS: In both groups the clinical tasks and the intensity of vertigo in VAS significantly decreased. The mean value of VSS (part physical and emotional)score significantly decreased only in supervised group at the end of 4 weeks and 3 months (p=ns). Recovery was more dynamic in supervised group than home-based exercises group, in AMCA test (3.9 vs. 1.3 s, p<0.05) in Eurofit tests eye open (14.1 vs. 0.9 s, p<0.05) and eye closed (3.5 vs. 1 s, p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: In patients with unilateral peripheral vestibular dysfunction supervised and home-based group kinesitherapy is an effective treatment method. In supervised group patients recovery has been faster.
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Cinesiologia Aplicada/métodos , Doenças do Labirinto/reabilitação , Equilíbrio Postural , Vertigem/reabilitação , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Adulto , Terapia por Exercício , Feminino , Humanos , Doenças do Labirinto/complicações , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Resultado do Tratamento , Vertigem/etiologia , Doenças Vestibulares/complicaçõesRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Although significant progress has been achieved in developing sensory augmentation methods to improve standing balance, attempts to extend this research to locomotion have been quite limited in scope. The goal of this study was to characterize the effects of two real-time feedback displays on locomotor performance during four gait-based tasks ranging in difficulty. METHODS: Seven subjects with vestibular deficits used a trunk-based vibrotactile feedback system that provided real-time feedback regarding their medial-lateral (M/L) trunk tilt when they exceeded a subject-specific predefined tilt threshold during slow and self-paced walking, walking along a narrow walkway, and walking on a foam surface. Two feedback display configurations were evaluated: the continuous display provided real-time continuous feedback of trunk tilt, and the gated display provided feedback for 200 ms during the period immediately following heel strike. The root-mean-square (RMS) trunk tilt and percentage of time below the tilt thresholds were calculated for all locomotor tasks. RESULTS: Use of continuous feedback resulted in significant decreases in M/L trunk tilt and increases in percentage times below the tilt thresholds during narrow and foam trials. The gated display produced generally smaller changes. CONCLUSIONS: This preliminary study demonstrated that use of continuous vibrotactile feedback during challenging locomotor tasks allowed subjects with vestibular deficits to significantly decrease M/L RMS trunk tilt. Analysis of the results also showed that continuous feedback was superior.
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Transtornos Neurológicos da Marcha/reabilitação , Atividade Motora/fisiologia , Neurorretroalimentação/instrumentação , Neurorretroalimentação/métodos , Equilíbrio Postural/fisiologia , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Adulto , Feminino , Transtornos Neurológicos da Marcha/etiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Tato , Doenças Vestibulares/complicações , VibraçãoRESUMO
Our objective was to evaluate whether the severity of vestibular loss and old-age (>65) affect a patient's ability to benefit from training using head-position based, tongue-placed electrotactile feedback. Seventy-one chronic dizzy patients, who had reached a plateau with their conventional rehabilitation, followed six 1-h training sessions during 4 consecutive days (once on days 1 and 4, twice on days 2 and 3). They presented bilateral vestibular areflexia (BVA), bilateral vestibular losses (BVL), unilateral vestibular areflexia or unilateral vestibular losses and were divided into two age-subgroups (≤65 and >65). Posturographic assessments were performed without the device, 4h before and after the training. Patients were tested with eyes opened and eyes closed (EC) on static and dynamic (passively tilting) platforms. The studied posturographic scores improved significantly, especially under test conditions restricting either visual or somatosensory input. This 4-h retention effect was greater in older compared to younger patients and was proportional to the degree of vestibular loss, patients with increased vestibular losses showing greater improvements. In bilateral patients, who constantly fell under dynamic-EC condition at the baseline, the therapy effect was expressed by disappearance of falls in BVL and significant prolongation in time-to-fall in BVA subgroups. Globally, our data showed that short training with head-position based, tongue-placed electrotactile biofeedback improves balance in chronic vestibulopathic patients some 16.74% beyond that achieved with standard balance physiotherapy. Further studies with longer use of this biofeedback are needed to investigate whether this approach could have long-lasting retention effect on balance and quality of life.
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Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/métodos , Tontura/reabilitação , Estimulação Elétrica/métodos , Reflexo Vestíbulo-Ocular/fisiologia , Vestíbulo do Labirinto/fisiopatologia , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Testes Calóricos , Doença Crônica , Estudos de Coortes , Eletronistagmografia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estimulação Física/métodos , Equilíbrio Postural/fisiologia , Reflexo Anormal/fisiologia , Estudos Retrospectivos , Língua , Resultado do Tratamento , Doenças Vestibulares/fisiopatologia , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Vestíbulo do Labirinto/fisiologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Biofeedback of body motion can serve as a balance aid and rehabilitation tool. To date, mathematical models considering the integration of biofeedback into postural control have represented this integration as a sensory addition and limited their application to a single degree-of-freedom representation of the body. This study has two objectives: 1) to develop a scalable method for incorporating biofeedback into postural control that is independent of the model's degrees of freedom, how it handles sensory integration, and the modeling of its postural controller; and 2) to validate this new model using multidirectional perturbation experimental results. METHODS: Biofeedback was modeled as an additional torque to the postural controller torque. For validation, this biofeedback modeling approach was applied to a vibrotactile biofeedback device and incorporated into a two-link multibody model with full-state-feedback control that represents the dynamics of bipedal stance. Average response trajectories of body sway and center of pressure (COP) to multidirectional surface perturbations of subjects with vestibular deficits were used for model parameterization and validation in multiple perturbation directions and for multiple display resolutions. The quality of fit was quantified using average error and cross-correlation values. RESULTS: The mean of the average errors across all tactor configurations and perturbations was 0.24° for body sway and 0.39 cm for COP. The mean of the cross-correlation value was 0.97 for both body sway and COP. CONCLUSIONS: The biofeedback model developed in this study is capable of capturing experimental response trajectory shapes with low average errors and high cross-correlation values in both the anterior-posterior and medial-lateral directions for all perturbation directions and spatial resolution display configurations considered. The results validate that biofeedback can be modeled as an additional torque to the postural controller without a need for sensory reweighting. This novel approach is scalable and applicable to a wide range of movement conditions within the fields of balance and balance rehabilitation. The model confirms experimental results that increased display resolution does not necessarily lead to reduced body sway. To our knowledge, this is the first theoretical confirmation that a spatial display resolution of 180° can be as effective as a spatial resolution of 22.5°.
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Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/fisiologia , Equilíbrio Postural/fisiologia , Algoritmos , Tornozelo/fisiologia , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Pé/fisiologia , Quadril/fisiologia , Humanos , Cinética , Modelos Estatísticos , Movimento/fisiologia , Desempenho Psicomotor/fisiologia , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Torque , Tato/fisiologia , Doenças Vestibulares/fisiopatologia , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , VibraçãoRESUMO
Vestibular rehabilitation therapy has been shown to improve balance and gait stability in individuals with vestibular deficits. However, patient compliance with prescribed home exercise programs is variable. Real-time feedback of exercise performance can potentially improve exercise execution, exercise motivation, and rehabilitation outcomes. The goal of this study is to directly compare the effects of visual and vibrotactile feedback on postural performance to inform the selection of a feedback modality for inclusion in a home-based balance rehabilitation device. Eight subjects (46.6±10.6years) with peripheral vestibular deficits and eight age-matched control subjects (45.3±11.1years) participated in the study. Subjects performed eyes-open tandem Romberg stance trials with (vibrotactile, discrete visual, continuous visual, and multimodal) and without (baseline) feedback. Main outcome measures included medial-lateral (M/L) and anterior-posterior mean and standard deviation of body tilt, percent time spent within a no-feedback zone, and mean score on a comparative ranking survey. Both groups improved performance for each feedback modality compared to baseline, with no significant differences in performance observed among vibrotactile, discrete visual, or multimodal feedback for either group. Subjects with vestibular deficits performed best with continuous visual feedback and ranked it highest. Although the control subjects performed best with continuous visual feedback in terms of mean M/L tilt, they ranked it lowest. Despite the observed improvements, continuous visual feedback involves tracking a moving target, which was noted to induce dizziness in some subjects with vestibular deficits and cannot be used during exercises in which head position is actively changed or during eyes-closed conditions.
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Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/métodos , Retroalimentação Sensorial , Equilíbrio Postural , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Adulto , Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/instrumentação , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Desenho de Equipamento , Feminino , Transtornos Neurológicos da Marcha/reabilitação , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Preferência do Paciente , Tato , Resultado do Tratamento , Testes de Função Vestibular , Vibração , Visão OcularRESUMO
PURPOSE: To determine to what extent attention directed toward visual, auditory, somesthetic, and imaginary sources would attenuate the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR). METHOD: Two prospective studies included 16 (Investigation 1) and 5 (Investigation 2) healthy participants (mean age of 24 years in Investigation 1 and 37 years in Investigation 2). VOR gain was assessed with a commercially available rotary chair and was measured in dark both while the subject was tasked with mental alerting exercises and while not being tasked. VOR suppression was measured for the following conditions: (a) visual suppression, (b) auditory suppression, (c) somatosensory suppression, (d) imaginary visual target suppression, and (e) combined auditory and somatosensory suppression. RESULTS: Attention directed to visual source attenuated the VOR by approximately 85%. Attention directed toward auditory and somatosensory targets (both separately and combined) and attention directed toward an imaginary target suppressed the VOR between 28% and 44%. The extent of VOR suppression that occurred with attention directed toward various nonvisual stimuli was significantly less than the visual suppression of the VOR. The various nonvisual conditions were not statistically different from one another. CONCLUSION: The data suggest that it is possible for typical adults to suppress the VOR in the absence of a visual target. That is, the VOR can be attenuated with attention directed toward chair-fixed visual, auditory, somatosensory, and imaginary targets.
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Atenção/fisiologia , Reflexo Vestíbulo-Ocular/fisiologia , Estimulação Acústica , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Imaginação , Masculino , Estimulação Luminosa , Estimulação Física , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Complex sensorimotor training can improve the postural stability of patients with vestibular neuropathy. Particularly the efficiency of the cerebellar system was significantly improved. In addition, the results show that the affected peripheral vestibular system cannot be influenced directly, regardless of the kind of rehabilitation measure used.
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Biorretroalimentação Psicológica/métodos , Retroalimentação Sensorial , Equilíbrio Postural , Recuperação de Função Fisiológica , Doenças Vestibulares/enfermagem , Doenças Vestibulares/reabilitação , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Resultado do Tratamento , Doenças Vestibulares/diagnóstico , Adulto JovemRESUMO
BACKGROUND: In their current laboratory-based form, existing vibrotactile sensory augmentation technologies that provide cues of body motion are impractical for home-based rehabilitation use due to their size, weight, complexity, calibration procedures, cost, and fragility. METHODS: We have designed and developed a cell phone based vibrotactile feedback system for potential use in balance rehabilitation training in clinical and home environments. It comprises an iPhone with an embedded tri-axial linear accelerometer, custom software to estimate body tilt, a "tactor bud" accessory that plugs into the headphone jack to provide vibrotactile cues of body tilt, and a battery. Five young healthy subjects (24 ± 2.8 yrs, 3 females and 2 males) and four subjects with vestibular deficits (42.25 ± 13.5 yrs, 2 females and 2 males) participated in a proof-of-concept study to evaluate the effectiveness of the system. Healthy subjects used the system with eyes closed during Romberg, semi-tandem Romberg, and tandem Romberg stances. Subjects with vestibular deficits used the system with both eyes-open and eyes-closed conditions during semi-tandem Romberg stance. Vibrotactile feedback was provided when the subject exceeded either an anterior-posterior (A/P) or a medial-lateral (M/L) body tilt threshold. Subjects were instructed to move away from the vibration. RESULTS: The system was capable of providing real-time vibrotactile cues that informed corrective postural responses. When feedback was available, both healthy subjects and those with vestibular deficits significantly reduced their A/P or M/L RMS sway (depending on the direction of feedback), had significantly smaller elliptical area fits to their sway trajectory, spent a significantly greater mean percentage time within the no feedback zone, and showed a significantly greater A/P or M/L mean power frequency. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that the real-time feedback provided by this system can be used to reduce body sway. Its advantages over more complex laboratory-based and commercial balance training systems in terms of cost, size, weight, functionality, flexibility, and accessibility make it a good candidate for further home-based balance training evaluation.