The Prevalence of Semicircular Canal Dysfunction Among Rehabilitation Patients

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Vertigo; Dizziness

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04447066

255-20

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients hospitalized at the rehabilitation department at the hospital will fill a questionnaire regarding dizziness and ear diseases, and the Dizziness Handicap Inventory, and then will be examined by an ENT physician, followed by a video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) study.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over 65 years old
• Hospitalized at the rehabilitation department

Exclusion criteria

• Blindness or loss of vision which is not corrected using glasses
• Past CVA with neurological remnants
• Movement disorder
• Lower body part weakness
• Limitation in neck movement
• Vestibular pathology diagnosed in the past 6 months

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Patients hospitalized at the rehabilitation department

Treatment:

Other: No intervention