Trial reportJournal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation2023
Decrease in head sway as a measure of sensory integration following vestibular rehabilitation: A randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Journal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06500611 (Combined Effects Of Sensory Integration And Vestibular Exercises On Dizziness, Fall Risk And Quality Of Life In Post-Stroke Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Combined Effects Of Sensory Integration And Vestibular Exercises On Dizziness, Fall Risk And Quality Of Life In Post-Stroke Patients
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Real sounds influence postural stability in people with vestibular loss but not in healthy controls.PloS one · 2025Trial
- Contextual sensory integration training vs. traditional vestibular rehabilitation: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2023Trial
- Frequency analyses of postural sway demonstrate the use of sounds for balance given vestibular loss.Gait & posture · 2025Article
- Phybrata Digital Biomarkers of Age-Related Balance Impairments, Sensory Reweighting, and Intrinsic Fall Risk.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Different Factors Influencing Postural Stability during Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation of the Cervical Spinal Cord.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Article
- Can head sway patterns differentiate between patients with Meniere's disease vs. peripheral vestibular hypofunction?Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Weighting of visual and auditory inputs in dancers with and without previous ankle injury.Human movement science · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which sensory integration strategies via head sway, derived from a Head-Mounted Display (HMD), change in people with vestibular disorders following vestibular rehabilitation.
designRandomized Controlled TrialSetting:Vestibular Rehabilitation ClinicParticipants:Thirty participants with vestibular dysfunction and 21 age-matched controls.
main outcome measuresParticipants experienced two levels of visual surround (static or moving 'stars', front to back at 0.2 Hz, 32 mm) and white noise (none or rhythmic) while their head sway was recorded via the HTC Vive. We quantified head sway via Directional Path (DP) and Root Mean Square Velocity (RMSV) in 5 directions: anterior-posterior, medio-lateral, pitch, yaw, and roll and Power Spectral Density in low (PSD 1), medium (PSD 2) and high (PSD 3) frequencies in the anterior-posterior direction.
interventionsParticipants performed the assessment prior to being randomized into 8-weeks of contextual sensory integration training in virtual reality or traditional vestibular rehabilitation and once again following completion of the intervention. Controls performed the assessment once. Twelve participants dropped out, half due to covid lock-down. We applied an intention to treat analysis.
resultsWe observed significant increases in AP DP, RMSV and all PSDs with change in visual level. Both intervention groups significantly decreased medio-lateral, pitch and roll DP and RMSV and anterior-posterior PSD 2 with no group differences. Vestibular participants were significantly higher than controls on all outcomes pre rehabilitation. Post rehabilitation they were only significantly higher on PSD 2. Sound was not a significant predictor of head sway in this protocol.
conclusionsHead sway decreased following vestibular rehabilitation regardless of visual load or type of intervention applied. This change was measured via head kinematics derived from a portable HMD which can serve as a sensitive in-clinic assessment for tracking improvement over time.
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