Efeito da reabilitação vestibular sobre a qualidade de vida de idosos portadores de labirintopatias de origem vascular e metabólica / Vestibular rehabilitation ´s effect over the qualit y of life of geriatric patients w ith labyrinth disease of vascular and met abolic origin.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The dizziness is a symptom that attacks the world-wide population, being observed bigger predominance in old due to the process of functional deterioration of the hearing and vestibular systems with the aging and also due to the high sensibility of these systems to clinical problems situated in other parts of the human body, usually related to vascular and metabolic etiology. The Vestibular Rehabilitation (VR) has shown an important and effective strategy in the individualstreatment with disorders of the physical balance, providing an accented improvement in the quality of life. The objective of this work was evaluate prospectively the effect of the RV as form of treatment of the labyrinth disease of vascular and metabolic origin in the quality of life of geriatric patients. The study was outlined like a clinical prospective test, longitudinal, observed, with the participation of 40 old individuals of both genders, with age group between 60 and 84 years divided in 2 groups according to the medical diagnosis,dizziness of vascular or metabolic origin. The patients passed over medical examinations, anamnesis, advising, evaluation of quality of life (scale of quantification of dizziness and Brazilian Dizziness Handicap Inventory) and the VR properly stated, what was based on the protocol of Cawthorne and Cooksey. The statistics analysis from the data was done through the t-Student test, to comparisons of parallels samples, using a test of bilateral hypothesis; the coefficients of Pearson and Spearman were used in the study of correlations. It was noticed that the old bearer of labyrinth disease of metabolic or vascular origin, has average age of 70,2 years, prevalent diagnosis in the metabolic group of diabetes mellitus and in the vascular group of arterial high blood pressure. For the used scales we can notice that the aspects evaluated through the DHI (physical, emotional, functional and general) and the scale of quantification of dizziness, improved after the therapeutic intervention by the Vestibular Rehabilitation in the geriatric patients with labyrinth disease of vascular and metabolic origin. Nevertheless significant difference in the scales of the DHI and quantification of dizziness after VR was not observed between the metabolic and vascular groups. Significant correlation was still observed in this study between the scales of quantification of dizziness with the DHI before and after treatment. For the questions boarded in the DHI there was a growth in the quality of life of all the old ones in study. The total time of treatment by means of VR varies of 4-10 therapeutic sessions. So, taking into account the epidemiologist data of the aging in Brazil and knowing that great part of the old ones with vestibular affections has vascular and metabolic origin, it is concluded that the VR based on the protocols of Cawthorne and Cooksey, can be used inbeneficial way in this population, also bringing positive impact in the capacity of life of these individuals.

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doenças vasculares idosos dizziness handicap inventory vascular diseases vestibular old quality of life vestibular rehabilitation tontura dizziness metabolic diseases qualidade doenças metabólicas reabilitação

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