ArticleFrontiers in neurology2017
Is the Headache in Patients with Vestibular Migraine Attenuated by Vestibular Rehabilitation?
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- Anxiety and Depression in Adults With Vestibular Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The Laryngoscope · 2026Pooled it
- Vestibular migraine treatment: a comprehensive practical review.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of vestibular rehabilitation program on balance, dizziness severity, sleep quality and quality of life in patients with vestibular migraine.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Trial
- Effects of adding transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation to vestibular rehabilitation on dizziness and postural control in vestibular migraine: a randomized clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Vestibular Rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia: Practice, Knowledge, and Beliefs of Physical Therapists.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Vestibular Migraine Pathophysiology and Treatment: a Narrative Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- A Multimodal Conservative Approach to Treating Migraine: A Physical Therapist's Perspective.Current pain and headache reports · 2023Review
- Impairments to the multisensory integration brain regions during migraine chronification: correlation with the vestibular dysfunction.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023Article
- Vestibular migraine: the chameleon in vestibular disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021Review
- Dizziness handicap and anxiety depression among patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine.Medicine · 2020Observational
- Vestibular rehabilitation in Europe: a survey of clinical and research practice.Journal of neurology · 2020Article
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- [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 · 2020Article
- Effect of Vestibular Rehabilitation on Spontaneous Brain Activity in Patients With Vestibular Migraine: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Changes in cognitive function in patients with intractable dizziness following vestibular rehabilitation.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Effects of Vestibular Rehabilitation in the Management of a Vestibular Migraine: A Review.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Review
- Physical therapy and migraine: musculoskeletal and balance dysfunctions and their relevance for clinical practice.Brazilian journal of physical therapyReview
- Effects of vestibular rehabilitation in the management of patients with and without vestibular migraine.Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundVestibular rehabilitation is the most effective treatment for dizziness due to vestibular dysfunction. Given the biological relationship between vestibular symptoms and headache, headache in patients with vestibular migraine (VM) could be improved by vestibular rehabilitation that leads to the improvement of dizziness. This study aimed to compare the effects of vestibular rehabilitation on headache and other outcomes relating to dizziness, and the psychological factors in patients with VM patients, patients with dizziness and tension-type headache, and patients without headache.
methodsOur participants included 251 patients with dizziness comprising 28 patients with VM, 79 patients with tension-type headache, and 144 patients without headache. Participants were hospitalized for 5 days and taught to conduct a vestibular rehabilitation program. They were assessed using the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), Headache Impact Test (HIT-6), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Somatosensory Catastrophizing Scale (SSCS) and underwent center of gravity fluctuation measurement as an objective dizziness severity index before, 1 month after, and 4 months after their hospitalization.
resultsThe VM and tension-type headache groups demonstrated a significant improvement in the HIT-6 score with improvement of the DHI, HADS, SSCS, and a part of the objective dizziness index that also shown in patients without headache following vestibular rehabilitation. The change in HIT-6 during rehabilitation in the VM group was positively correlated with changes in the DHI and anxiety in the HADS. Changes in the HIT-6 in tension-type headache group positively correlated with changes in anxiety and SSCS.
conclusionVestibular rehabilitation contributed to improvement of headache both in patients with VM and patients with dizziness and tension-type headache, in addition to improvement of dizziness and psychological factors. Improvement in dizziness following vestibular rehabilitation could be associated with the improvement of headache more prominently in VM compared with comorbid tension-type headache.
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