Cross-cultural Adaptation and Validity of Mini Bestest in Balance Disorders in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires: Validation Study Protocol

Hospital de Rehabilitacion Manuel Rocca

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Peripheral Vestibular Disorder; Vestibular Disease

Treatments: Other: Assessment scale

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05522530

5884

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to carry out the cross-cultural adaptation of the Mini BESTest (a balance assessment scale) into Argentine Spanish, as well as to study its validation in patients with peripheral vestibular disorders in the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects >18 years of age,
• With vestibular alterations of peripheral etiology, within the second year of evolution
• Time of evolution of symptoms ≤ 2 years
• Independent walking with or without walking assistance device
• Who are at the beginning of a VR program
• No diagnoses of psychiatric disorders or cognitive impairment,
• Sign the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Who have suffered amputation in one of their lower limbs,
• History of neurological pathologies (stroke, multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disease)