Vestibular Rehabilitation for Strokepatients With Dizziness

Lund University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke; Dizziness

Treatments: Other: Vestibular rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01797744

2012/816

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recently, the investigators has shown that dizziness is common among patients with first time stroke and that it affects self perceived health. There are indications that vestibular rehabilitation can have effect of neurological causes of dizziness and vertigo and it therefore seems important to find out if vestibular rehabilitation can affect dizziness among patients with stroke.

The aim of this study is to find out if vestibular rehabilitation can have any effect on function, balance and self-rated health among patients with first time stroke.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• First time stroke with dizziness -

Exclusion Criteria

• Not first time stroke
• No dizziness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Vestibular rehabiliation

Experimental group

Description:

Vestibular rehabiliation

Treatment:

Other: Vestibular rehabilitation

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual rehabilitation whitout additional vestibular exercises