Does Vestibular Rehabilitation Significantly Improve the Level of Vestibular Function Following Vestibular Neuritis?

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To investigate which treatment option (corticosteroid treatment alone or combined corticosteroid treatment and vestibular rehabilitation) is the most effective in patients diagnosed with vestibular neuritis.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Aalborg Universitetshospital; Aalborg University Hospital
• Treatments: Methylprednisolone; Methylprednisolone acetate; Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate; Prednisolone; Prednisolone acetate; Prednisolone hemisuccinate; Prednisolone phosphate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age above 18 years of age

2. Medical history compatible with vestibular neuritis

3. Verification of vestibular neuritis with positive romberg test, pathological v-HIT and horizontal nystagmus with a rotatory component.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Former medical history with vestibular dysfunction

2. Medical history or objective signs of cochlear dysfunction before, during or after onset of vestibular neuritis

3. Onset of symptoms 14 days before recruitment to the study

4. Focal neurological symptoms/signs

5. Contraindication to prednisolone treatment

6. Problem with participating in vestibular rehabilitation due to muscular-skeletal disease ect.