[The therapy of patients with dizziness and balance disorders]

A new computerized method is proposed for correction and inhibition of unfavorable illusory (dizziness), vestibular-oculomotor (nystagmus) and vestibular-postural (balance) which allows to teach a subject to block generalization of an afferent signal to effector mechanisms of the central nervous system by developing a fixation reflex, employing a delayed feedback. Two ways of using this method were employed depending on the kind of stimulation programs aimed at inducing abnormal responses of a certain sensory modality (visual or vestibular). The study involved 24 patients with vestibulopathies of peripheral and central origin divided into 2 equal groups one of which had been taught by a visual technique, the other - by a vestibular one. The method allows to produce abnormal illusory and vestibular optic oculomotor responses in the patient and inhibit them with the help the fixation reflex development. The visual way of correction was the most effective for patients with peripheral vestibulopathia and the vestibular way - for patients with central vestibulopathia.