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Fig. 14.6 Example of the Supine Roll treatment for left lateral canal BPPV, (a) shows the starting position with the head turned 90° to the left elevated 30°, (b) shows the second position with the head in midline elevated 30°, (c) shows the third position with the head turned 90° to the right elevated 30°, (d) shows the fourth position with the head in midline and nose down with approxi­mately 30° of chin tuck, (e) Left side-lying position, (f) Supine with head midline, (g) nal position seated on the mat. Positions a, b and c should be held for 30–45s after vertigo/nystagmus stops
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Fig. 14.7 Example of Gufoni for left lateral canal BPPV. (a) Shows the starting position with the head in midline and the patient crossing their arms to grasp the forearms of the clinician, (b) shows the second position with the head in midline and right side-lying holding for 1min, (c) shows the third position with the head turned 45° to the right (nose down) holding for 1–2min, (d) shows the nal position seated on the mat
In some cases particle repositioning maneuvers do not successfully resolve com­plaints of positional vertigo. For those individuals a habituation approach should be considered as a nal conservative approach [190]. Habituation exercises can take the form of an appropriately selected repositioning technique as described above, Cawthorne–Cooksey exercises [191], or Brandt–Daroff exercises [192]. Habituation prescription for positional vertigo may include 5–10 repetitions daily of motion provoking movements. In rare cases, surgical intervention may be appropriate [193].
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Fig. 14.8 Example of deep head hang technique for anterior canal BPPV. (a) Shows the starting position with the head in midline and the patient sitting upright, (b) shows the second position with the head in midline with approximately 60° of head/neck extension, holding for 1min, (c) shows the third position with the head in midline brought up to a chin-tuck, (d) shows the nal position seated on the mat
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Treatments forNonspecic Dizziness
Exposure Therapy
The primary goal for habituation exercises is to desensitize nonspecic dizziness by gradual repeated exposure to provocative stimuli such as self-movement or visual stimulating surroundings. The symptom of nonspecic dizziness has been referred to in several ways including motorists’ disorientation syndrome motorists’ disorien­tation syndrome [194], space and motion discomfort [103, 195], visual vertigo [196], and visual-vestibular mismatch [197–199].
Over time, exposure to vestibular and visual motion stimuli leads to reduced vestibular responses, probably due to changes in velocity storage mechanisms that mediate ocular and perceptual responses, therefore, reducing sensitivity to
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visual- vestibular mismatches [56, 200, 201]. Vestibular rehabilitation exercises may include a range of visual environments, virtual reality, and supplementary immer­sive settings [26, 202, 203]. Incorporating optokinetic stimuli concurrent with ves­tibular rehabilitation exercises has better outcomes than treatments without optokinetic stimuli [25, 204]. Vestibular and visual motion stimulation for habitua­tion can also be induced by self-motion, and has been successfully used to address motion sensitivity aspects of vestibular hypofunction [24].
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Anxiety, depression, and other psychological conditions often present as comorbid conditions for individuals with dizziness. About 50% of dizzy patients experience psychiatric comorbidity [99]. Both nonspecic dizziness and psychological disor­ders can lead to functional limitations. Not surprisingly, habituation principles are similar for both conditions. The main element of vestibular habituation exercises is gradual and controlled exposure to sensory input that provokes symptoms. The main component of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is progressively and con­trolled exposure to the individual’s challenging factors [104, 205, 206].
Psychotherapy such as CBT, together with vestibular rehabilitation, can be a very effective treatment combination for a dizzy patient, as has been shown in a system­atic review [207]. Even for patients with persistent dizziness, this combination of treatments is feasible and promising; however, the optimal intervention strategy still needs to be identied [152, 208]. Patients who suffer only from dizziness, without measurable balance impairments benet even more from CBT treatments [209].
Gaze Instability
The purpose of VOR adaptation exercises is to improve gaze stability by “strength­ening” vestibular responses and recruiting substitution mechanisms such as prepro­gramming eye movements, and the cervico-ocular reex to compensate for the vestibular hypo function in order to gain stable vision and therefore also improve postural stability [23, 210–212]. An error signal that causes retinal slip during head movement is the VOR adaptation’s key stimulus [213–215]. Human VOR adapta­tion abilities are phenomenal due to neuroplasticity [216, 217]. It has adaptive capa­bilities for concurrent and opposing directions, i.e., increased VOR response when moving the head to one side and decreased response as moving the head to the other side. VOR adaptation is context-specic and depends on the error signal that drives the adaptation process [218].
The basic clinical VOR adaptation exercise is VOR X1 viewing exercise. For VOR X1 exercise a patient holds a target in front of the eyes, moves the head side to side or up and down in a small amplitude but as fast as possible while maintaining a
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perception of a clear and stationary target. To advance in treatment and add extra challenge to the VOR, a patient can move the target and the head in opposite direc­tions at approximately the same velocity. This kind of exercise is known as VOR X2 viewing. Because of the target movement, the eyes will need to move faster than the head, increasing the VOR gain [213, 215, 219]. These techniques are very easy to deliver in the clinic as well as for patients to practice at home. Examples of X1 and X2 viewing are presented in Fig.14.9. Importantly, these gaze stabilization exercises can be progressed in difculty starting with sitting and progressing to standing or walking.
During vestibular rehabilitation, the brain recruits alternative strategies to achieve better function and gaze stability by substitution mechanisms and central prepro­gramming eye movements [15, 22]. The level of vestibular recovery determines the brain strategy to improve gaze stability. Patients with sufcient vestibular end-organ functional recovery use fewer compensatory saccades [220]. On the other hand, patients with chronic vestibular hypofunction depend on compensatory saccades to improve gaze stability [221–223]. Improvement of DVA is a signicant outcome that indicates better gaze stability. Vestibular rehabilitation exercises that include head and eye movements lead to better results than general exercises not based on actions that require visual xation [21, 224]. Additional exercises for improving gaze stability can include eye and head movements between several targets and even by moving the head while keeping xation on a remembered target, for examples Figs.14.10 and 14.11 [225].
Isolated saccades or pursuit eye movement only exercises are not effective for treating peripheral vestibular hypofunction and should not be prescribed [6]. For effective vestibular rehabilitation, patients should participate in daily exercises that include head-eye movements for 12–20min per day of combined gaze stabilization exercises [6]. This recommendation was based on interpretation of studies that were not designed to evaluate dosage, and additional research is needed to clarify the optimum exercises and dosage parameters to improve gaze stability.
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Disequilibrium
Balance problems and falls are common for individuals with vestibular dysfunction [35, 40, 226]. Balance problems may manifest while standing still or when in motion such as while walking [227–229]; thus, balance interventions need to be specically targeted. Balance exercises must be sufciently challenging [230, 231], or individuals may not improve. Normal balance ability depends on having an intact and functional musculoskeletal system and intact peripheral systems and central sensory processing [232–234]. Balance rehabilitation often incorporates both a strengthening and a sensory reweighting approach for individuals with vestibular dysfunction. Sensory reweighting is facilitated by systematically reducing the avail­ability or reliability of specic sensory inputs that are relevant for balance control [18, 235–238].
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Fig. 14.9 Example of X1 viewing (a–c) and X2 viewing (d–f) exercises. For X1 viewing, the target or “X” is world xed and the head is either continuously or impulsively rotated in pitch or yaw. For X2 viewing, the target is moved in the opposite direction of head motion at approximately the same velocity which can be done either continuously or impulsively
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Fig. 14.10 Example of eye-then-head exercises to promote substitution. From a to c, progres­sively the eyes move to the new target and then stay there as the head is turned. In d and e, this process is reversed moving the eyes then head back to the original target
Standing balance can be progressively challenged in a variety of ways starting with altering the shape and size of the base of support, wider is more stable [229]. Different surfaces such as foam, tilting boards, narrow beams, or different surface heights are used to articially create instability leading to a change in how balance is controlled [239–241]. Sensory availability can be manipulated to increase the balance challenge by closing the eyes [241–243], standing on a foam cushion [241], or watching optic ow patterns [204]. Altered head position or adding continuous
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Fig. 14.11 Example of remembered target exercise for gaze stability. (a) The target is visualized, (b) the eyes are closed maintaining position on the remembered target location, (c) the head is turned away while the closed eyes continue looking where the target is, (d) the eyes are opened for visual feedback to see whether they stayed on the target
head motion can further create challenges to standing balance leading to increased sway [244, 245]. Similar exercise manipulations are often also applied during walk­ing based on identied task difculty on balance tests like the Functional Gait Assessment or Dynamic Gait Index [79, 81]. Obstacles to step over or navigate around are also often incorporated into rehabilitation exercises as those are com­monly encountered in daily life [246, 247]. Current recommendations for balance exercises include at least 20 minutes per day for 4-6 weeks or 6-9 weeks for unilat­eral or bilateral vestibular hypofunction respectively [248]. Additionally, Klatt and colleagues theorized that 8–12 min of focused balance exercises 2–3 times per week may be benecial [231]. Research based guidelines on balance exercise dosage are needed.
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Frontiers inVestibular Rehabilitation
Cognition
Although the specic mechanisms are still being elucidated [249], the vestibular system inuences cognition in several ways [250–256]. Vestibular signals from both the semicircular canals and otoliths are found in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex highlighting the impact of vestibular afferent signals on spatial orientation/ navigation [257–259]. Reduced vestibular function either caused by aging or dis­ease leads to worse performance on tests of spatial orientation and spatial naviga­tion compared to healthy adults [96, 260–264]. In fact, individuals with dementia are more likely to have vestibular dysfunction compared to older adults with normal cognition [265]. Because of the broad vestibular connection to cognition, some have proposed vestibular exercises to improve both cognition and balance [266, 267]. At present, there is insufcient evidence supporting enhanced cognition from vestibu­lar rehabilitation, but promising research is on the horizon [268, 269].
Innovations
Novel vestibular rehabilitation approaches, especially for patients who do not respond well to traditional vestibular rehabilitation (e.g., severe BVL patients), are needed. Some of these promising approaches include the use of invasive vestibular implants and noninvasive devices that use vibrotactile stimuli to improve balance control.
Vestibular Prosthesis
One promising approach is providing electrical stimulation via a vestibular prosthe­sis to mimic vestibular sensation [270–272]. Research using animal models demon­strated that vestibular reexes could be effectively driven by direct electrical stimulation of vestibular afferent neurons [273, 274]. Similar results have been reported in humans with BVH who have received a vestibular implant and been tested in laboratory settings [271, 275–277]. The Labyrinth Devices MVI™ Multichannel Vestibular Implant system is currently the only human vestibular implant with the prosthesis on continuously 24h/day. Long-term use of this implant produced stable improvements in VOR eye movement responses [278], more impor­tantly, a phenomenal improvement in quality of life, walking abilities, and postural control of BVL patients [279]. The potential benets of vestibular rehabilitation exercises for implanted patients remains to be determined.
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Vibrotactile Stimuli
The idea behind vibrotactile belts or shoes is to promote sensory substitution by “replacing” or augmenting the information that should be provided by a defective vestibular system by using sensory input from augmented tactile cues. For example, a belt tted with actuators that deliver vibrotactile stimulus to the waist when the subject leans signicantly from an upright position [280]. By using such a belt, patients with UVH showed better control of their body sway during perturbed stand­ing and tandem walking [281]. Even patients with BVH report improved quality of life as their mobility and balance control are improved after using a vibro-tactile belt [282]. Interestingly, community-dwelling elderly who used vibrotactile stimu­lus for 8weeks as part of their balance training improved their vestibular reliance during postural testing [283]. However, even though vibrotactile stimuli are simple noninvasive devices as well as showing promising results, the effect of vestibular rehabilitation together with vibrotactile stimuli remains to be determined.
Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
Virtual reality has long been available to researchers in the eld of vestibular sci­ence and rehabilitation [203, 284–286], and with the recent availability of low cost consumer systems it is now more available for home and clinic use [287–290]. Immersive virtual reality games that require head motion lead to improvements in the vestibulo-ocular reex and also improvements in balance [291–294]. Nonimmersive virtual reality game play such as the Nintendo Wii™ has also been shown to improve outcomes after vestibular rehabilitation [295]. Augmented reality glasses may also be helpful in certain circumstances for individuals with vestibular loss to address oscillopsia [296] or imbalance and falls [297]. Additional studies are needed to determine whether technology driven vestibular rehabilitation consis­tently leads to better outcomes [284, 293], but it may lead to greater participation because of higher engagement and adherence [298].
Incremental VOR Adaptation
The downside of more traditional gaze stability exercises is that they cause an immediate large error signal for large decits in VOR gain. A gradually increasing error signal drives the VOR more efciently [299]. A novel rehabilitation device for patients who suffer from reduced VOR gain due to vestibular hypo function showed promising results by using the incremental VOR adaptation (IVA) paradigm [300,
301]. An interesting case report demonstrates the IVA paradigm’s benets presents
a 51years-old patient who suffered for 20years from bilateral vestibular loss. The