Research Advances in Vestibular Rehabilitation Mechanism and Treatment

Abstract

Recent years have seen rapid advances in clinical diagnosis and treatment of vestibular diseases, especially vestibular evaluation and rehabilitation technologies, greatly promoting the developments in individualization and precision of rehabilitation for peripheral and central vestibular diseases. The vestibular rehabilitation helps to correct inappropriate strategy of equilibrium and/or to accelerate a good but slow compensation phenomenon, effectively improve vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive inputs to balance coordination control ability, improve the compensatory function of central nervous system, so as to reduce or eliminate the symptoms of dizziness, vertigo, and balance instability, eventually restoring the normal vestibular status. Given this background, we reviewed the advances in mechanisms of rehabilitation, pre-rehabilitation evaluation, rehabilitation program formulation and treatment regarding vestibular diseases, offering insights into clinical implementation and research concerning vestibular rehabilitation in China.

Keywords

• |neurological rehabilitation|vestibular diseases|repair|adaptation, physiological|acclimatization|mechanism of action|review