Open Access<p>Vestibular Rehabilitation Using Posturographic System in Elderly Patients with Postural Instability: Can the Number of Sessions Be Reduced?</p>
Author(s) -
Andrés Soto-Varela,
Marcos Rossi-Izquierdo,
María Del-Río-Valeiras,
Isabel Vaamonde-Sánchez-Andrade,
Ana Faraldo-García,
Antonio Lirola-Delgado,
Sofía Santos-Pérez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s263302
Subject(s) - posturography , medicine , balance (ability) , postural instability , vestibular system , rehabilitation , physical therapy , physical medicine and rehabilitation , dynamic balance , balance problems , audiology , parkinson's disease , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics
Vestibular rehabilitation (VR) using posturography systems has proved useful in improving balance among elderly patients with postural instability. However, its high cost hinders its use. The objective of this study is to assess whether two different protocols of VR with posturography, one of them longer (ten sessions) and the other shorter (five sessions), show significant differences in the improvement of balance among old patients with instability.