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Body balance in elderly patients, 12 months after treatment for BPPV
Solange Martiliano Lança1, Juliana Maria Gazzola, Cristiane Akemi Kasse
1Departamento Técnico de Projetos e Campanhas, Secretaria dos Direitos da Pessoa, Município de Barueri, Brazil.
Unlabelled:
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo is highly prevalent in the elderly population, triggering major changes in body balance.
Objective:
To compare the results obtained from static posturography in the elderly before and after otoliths repositioning maneuvers and 12 months after treatment onset.
Design:
longitudinal, descriptive and analytical study.
Method:
Elderly patients with clinical diagnosis of BPPV submitted to Balance Rehabilitation Unit static posturography in 10 sensory conditions at three time intervals: before and after the repositioning maneuver and12 months after the treatment
Results:
We studied 23 subjects with a mean age of 68.74 years. Posturography revealed that the stability limit was not significantly different when the three time intervals were compared (p = 0.405). The center of pressure (CoP) showed a significant change in condition 2 (stable surface and closed eyes), because after the repositioning maneuver, the CoP significantly differed vis-à-vis the results before and 12 months after the treatment (p = 0.003). The values of body velocity sway (BVS) were significantly different in six sensory conditions in these three time intervals.
Conclusion:
12 months after the treatment for BPPV, the static posturography showed balance abnormalities similar to those found before treatment.
