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Trial reportJournal of neurology2013

Vestibular rehabilitation outcomes in patients with and without vestibular migraine.

Jessica Vitkovic, Arimbi Winoto, Gary Rance, Richard Dowell, Mark Paine

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Trial report in Journal of neurology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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24citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Effectiveness of Vestibular Rehabilitation in Vestibular Migraine: A Systematic Review.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026
    Pooled it
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  3. Guideline
  4. Trial
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  7. Recent Trends in Treatment of Vestibular Migraine: A Systematic Review.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024
    Article
  8. Review
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  10. Migraine management for the otolaryngologist.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2023
    Review
  11. Migraine Features in Patients with Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness.The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology · 2021
    Article
  12. Vestibular migraine: the chameleon in vestibular disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021
    Review
  13. [Research on modelling vestibular rehabilitation decision based on machine learning].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2020
    Article
  14. Article
  15. Review
  16. Current Treatment Options: Vestibular Migraine.Current treatment options in neurology · 2017
    Review
  17. Article
  18. Vestibular Migraine in Children and Adolescents.Current pain and headache reports · 2016
    Review
  19. Review
  20. Recent Evidence About the Effectiveness of Vestibular Rehabilitation.Current treatment options in neurology · 2016
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jessica VitkovicDepartment of Audiology and Speech Pathology, The University of Melbourne, 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053, Australia, jessicav@unimelb.edu.au.
Arimbi Winoto
Gary Rance
Richard Dowell
Mark Paine
University of Melbourne · AUMelbourne Clinic · AUThe Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vestibular rehabilitation programs do appear to play a beneficial role in the treatment of dizziness in patients with vestibular migraine. Anecdotally, however, patients with vestibular migraine may report persistent significant symptoms at the end of a standard treatment period where other non-migrainous patients are accomplishing their treatment goals. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of vestibular rehabilitation in patients with vestibular migraine compared to patients with vestibular symptoms without migraine. Thirty-six patients (vestibular migraine = 20, vestibular impairment = 16) with significant daily vestibular symptoms received a nine week customized vestibular rehabilitation program. Each subject attended five therapy appointments occurring at initial, two, five, nine and six months. A range of subjective and physical performance outcome measures were taken at baseline, nine weeks and six months. The vestibular migraine group showed poorer subjective performance at the onset of therapy, which was not reflected in the difference in physical performance between the groups. Both groups benefitted equally from rehabilitation. The same degree of improvement was observed in the migraine group regardless of medication regime. This study has validated vestibular rehabilitation as an effective treatment in dizzy patients both with and without vestibular migraine where the use of medication did not preclude benefit from therapy. However, further research is required to clarify the role of specific vestibular suppressant medications and the scheduling of their use in relation to physical therapy.

Indexed as

AdultAgedDizzinessExercise TherapyFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMigraine DisordersPostural BalanceTreatment OutcomeVestibular DiseasesYoung Adult

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PMID24061769
OpenAlexW2161860047

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