Some InfoVestibular Rehabilitation
Vestibular rehabilitation is a branch of physiotherapy designed to habituate symptoms & improve adaptation & substitute various deficits causing balance disorders. VRT improves subjective symptoms and functional deficits which occur because of unilateral/bilateral peripheral vestibular hypo function or Central balance disorders.
Goals - VRT
By promoting vestibular function & improving the mechanism of central adaptation and compensation.
VRT aims at
- Improving balance
- Minimizing falls
- Reduce subjective sensations of dizziness
- Improving stability during locomotion
- Reducing over dependency on somatosensory & visual inputs
- Improving neuromuscular coordination
- Reducing somatization & anxiety due to vestibular disorientation
Our specialists at MAKINO assess and evaluate your symptoms in details and customize treatment plan as per the requirement.
Some of treatment protocols includes – Components of VRT
Habituation Exercises
- To desensitize vestibular system for positional or motion-provoked symptoms
Improve adaptation to vestibuloocular&vestibulospinal reflexes.
- Substitutes alternate senses to replace lost vestibular function
- Waves symptoms like – Imbalance, disequilibrium & motion induced unsteadiness
- As a result of compensation, the remaining CNS processes improves control of eye, head, & . body movements to maintain stable gaze, position and posture.
Substitution strategies
- Development of cervical-ocular reflex (COR) to overcome the visual deficit.
- Refinement of oculo motor skills
- improves in postural control
- Adaptation helps to extinguish dizziness exaggerated by motion/visual stimulation.
Manual Therapies & Proprioceptive training
- canalith repositioning maneuver
- Labyrinth repositioning maneuver
- brandtdaroff exercises