Does Vestibular Rehabilitation Significantly Improve the Level of Vestibular Function Following Vestibular Neuritis?

Aalborg University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vestibular Neuritis

Treatments: Drug: Corticosteroid; Other: Vestibular rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03821155

2018-166

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate which treatment option (corticosteroid treatment alone or combined corticosteroid treatment and vestibular rehabilitation) is the most effective in patients diagnosed with vestibular neuritis.

Full description

Patients diagnosed with vestibular neuritis will we consider for enrollment. Each patient will undergo randomization for a specific treatment.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age above 18 years of age
2. Medical history compatible with vestibular neuritis
3. Verification of vestibular neuritis with positive romberg test, pathological v-HIT and horizontal nystagmus with a rotatory component.

Exclusion criteria

1. Former medical history with vestibular dysfunction
2. Medical history or objective signs of cochlear dysfunction before, during or after onset of vestibular neuritis
3. Onset of symptoms 14 days before recruitment to the study
4. Focal neurological symptoms/signs
5. Contraindication to prednisolone treatment
6. Problem with participating in vestibular rehabilitation due to muscular-skeletal disease ect.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Neuritis vestibularis (group 1)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Corticosteroid ("prednisolone")

Treatment:

Drug: Corticosteroid

Neuritis vestibularis (group 2)

Experimental group

Description:

Corticosteroid ("prednisolone") + vestibular rehabilitation

Treatment:

Other: Vestibular rehabilitation

Drug: Corticosteroid