Vestibular Rehabilitation for Strokepatients With Dizziness

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Recently, the investigators has shown that dizziness is common among patients with first time stroke and that it affects self perceived health. There are indications that vestibular rehabilitation can have effect of neurological causes of dizziness and vertigo and it therefore seems important to find out if vestibular rehabilitation can affect dizziness among patients with stroke. The aim of this study is to find out if vestibular rehabilitation can have any effect on function, balance and self-rated health among patients with first time stroke.

Official Title
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Vestibular Rehabilitation for Strokepatients With Dizziness - a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Conditions
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Stroke, Dizziness

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Vestibular rehabilitation


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria • First time stroke with dizziness - Exclusion Criteria Not first time stroke No dizziness
Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Vestibular rehabiliation<br>Vestibular rehabiliation | Other: Vestibular rehabilitation<br>* Usual rehabilitation and four different vestibular rehabilitation exercises, adapted to the individual patient<br>|
| No Intervention: Control group<br>Usual rehabilitation whitout additional vestibular exercises | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Activities-specific Balance Confidence Scale | Questionnaire. The ABC-scale has proven to be able to identify the influence that vestibular dysfunction can have on daily activities. | Change between baseline and three months after baseline | 
| EuroQol 5D | Questionnaire. EQ5D consists of a descriptive system comprising five dimensions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. Each dimension has three levels: no problems, some problems, severe problems. The patient indicates his/her state by marking the most appropriate statement. This result in a 1-digit number and the digits for the five dimensions can be combined in a five-digit number, generating 243 possible combinations of response.The EQ5D also consist of the EQ VAS where the patients' record self-rated health on a vertical, visual analogue scale where the individual points can be used as a quantitative measure with zero as worst rated health and 100 as best rated health | Change between baseline and three months after baseline | 
| The Berg Balance Scale | Balance measures | Change between baseline and three months after baseline | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Stroke, Dizziness, Vestibular rehabiliation, Balance