BENIGN PAROXYSISMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO REHABILITATION BY VIRTUAL REALITY AND MULTISENSORIAL STIMULATION
BENIGN PAROXYSISMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO REHABILITATION BY VIRTUAL REALITY AND MULTISENSORIAL STIMULATION

Author(s): Oana-Alis Sandu, Ligia RUSU
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Discobolul Publishing House
Keywords: balance rehabilitation; multisensory stimulation; virtual reality;
Summary/Abstract: Balance is due to proprioception, vision, vestibule and visual dependence, but an imbalance in one of these components will create the sensation of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo(BPPV). The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the usefulness of virtual reality on BPPV. Method and material: we tested 15 subjects, with an average age of 58 years, 7 men and 8 women, diagnosed with BPPV. Before(T1) and after evaluation(T2) was realized with: Stepping Test, Babinski Weil and a complex evaluation using MotinVR-Platform. The rehabilitation during 6 months, 2 sessions/week, each session 10 minutes muscle strength, proprioceptive stimulation, balance exercises and 20 minutes of multisensory stimulation. The result:Stepping Test, 29% of the subjects show a deviation to the left, 71% to the right. Following Babinski Weil, 4 subjects had a fall to the left, 10 subjects had a fall to the left and only one subject had no fall. On MotionVR-Platform, the results on average are: somesthetic input: 92.1%(T1) and 97.5%, (T2), visual input:57.7%(T1) and 71.3%,(T2), vestibular input:59.9%(T1) and 69.2%(T2) and visual dependence: 89.3%(T1) and 98.4%(T2). The postural stability with eyes open on stable plane: 82.2%(T1) and 86,5%(T2), eyes open on unstable plane 52.7%(T1) and 61.7%(T2); eyes closed on stable plane 82.5%(T1) and 89.5%(T2), eyes closed on unstable plane:52.1%(T1) and 63.0%(T2); controlled vision on a stable plane:82.2%(T1) and 89.1%(T2); controlled vision on an unstable plane:41.5% and 58.9%(T2).Conclusion: each subject requires a complex multisensory rehabilitation, based on vestibular, proprioceptive, visual stimulation, these three can be combined at the same time on the MotionVR-Platform.

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