Review on Results of Vestibular Rehabilitation in Patients with Vestibular Abnormalities as Consequence of Head Trauma and Related Abnormalities

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 Department of Audiology, School of Paramedical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

2 Department of Audiology, Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Neurosurgery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4 Department of Bio-statistics, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Abstract
Head trauma is common in adults because of different reasons such as car crash and work related accidents. Headache, vertigo and imbalance are the most common consequences of head trauma and patients suffer from many vestibular disorders including BPPV, rupture of round window membrane, labirynthine damage, endolymphatic hydropse and perilymphaticfistule. These disorders involve different places of vestibular system. The purpose of the present article is a review on results of vestibular rehabilitation in patients with head trauma and vestibular system abnormalities.
Related articles from different data bases including PubMed, Web of science, Scopus, Magiran and SID were evaluated during January 1980 to December 2017. The key words were vestibular rehabilitation, head trauma, vertigo and imbalance. Total 37 articles were evaluated.
Vestibular rehabilitation showed good therapeutic success in treatment and management of acute and chronic head trauma patients but some patients needs longer treatment and some may be challenging.

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Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation
Volume 7, Issue 4
December 2018
Pages 92-98

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