Role of Vestibular Rehabilitation for BPPV patients

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Role of Vestibular Rehabilitation for BPPV patients Kyu-Sung Kim＊ Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, Inha University, Korea Contents: Vestibular rehabilitation therapy is widely adapted to treat various vestibular disorders, including acute, spontaneous persistent vertigo like vestibular neuritis and some kind of fluctuating vertigo like Meniere’s disease. Interventions for vestibular rehabilitation including adaptation, substitution and habituation are the movement-based rehabilitation method, but in the specific diagnosis of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), rehabilitations include physical maneuvers which are based on the concept of reposition of particles in semicircular canal system. There are several evidences that rehabilitation methods based one physical maneuvers are more effective in the short term than non-specific repositioning or movement-based rehabilitation exercises, but the combination of these two methods is effective for long-term recovery from dizziness. In this lecture, systematic review of the effectiveness of vestibular rehabilitation in BPPV will be discussed. Keywords: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, rehabilitation ＊Corresponding Author: Kyu-Sung Kim (stedman@inha.ac.kr)