YOGA AND PHYSIOTHERAPY ON vertigo

Completed

• Conditions: Labyrinthitis,

• Registration Number: CTRI/2019/03/017995
• Lead Sponsor: Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Brief Summary

**Objective**: To compare the efficacy of Yoga as a vestibular rehabilitation exercise with the traditional Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT).

**Design:** observer blinded randomized controlled trial

**Setting**:This study was conducted in the academic department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, a coastal city in South India.

**Subjects**: The inclusion of 150 participants in the study was based on 18 point difference in the DHI score.

**Interventions**: Randomly assigned into three groups. Yoga was categorized as Group I, VRT as Group II and those with medication as Group III through block randomization.

**Main outcome measures**: Dizziness Handicap Inventory(DHI)  was completed three times at the beginning,end of  the fourth week, eight weeks and twelfth week). SF 36 was assessed initially and end of twelve weeks.

The results: Data of 150 patients were analyzed. The mean DHI and  mean SF-36 decreased significantly in both the yoga and VRT but there was no significant reduction in the generic quality of life in the control group when compared to baseline.

**Conclusion**: The advantage of yoga over  VRT is that is provides a wholesome and customized cure for giddiness. That means, apart from providing symptomatic relief of giddiness by vestibular rehabilitation, yoga also brings in additional proven benefits like general body relaxation, increased blood oxygenation, detoxification and an overall sense of well being. Being cheap and easy to learn, yoga could be an excellent substitute to the traditional VRT .

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-05-08
• Study Completion: 2012-09-28
• Last Update Posted: 2024-06-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

Patients with chronic peripheral vestibular vertigo of at least one year duration not cured by medications were included in the study with diagnosis of Benign Positional Paroxysmal Vertigo, Labyrinthitis, Vestibular Neuronitis, Meniere’s disease, local trauma.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with vertigo due to middle ear causes like effusions, perilymphatic fistula, Otosclerosis and Mastoiditis were excluded from the study.
• Patients with central vertigo, basilar artery insufficiency and chronic undiagnosed vertigo.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Vertigo symptom scale (VSS)	Visual analogue scale (VAS) | Vertigo symptom scale (VSS) | Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) | Vestibular disorder Activity of Daily Living scale (VADL) | SF-36
SF-36	Visual analogue scale (VAS) | Vertigo symptom scale (VSS) | Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) | Vestibular disorder Activity of Daily Living scale (VADL) | SF-36
Visual analogue scale (VAS)	Visual analogue scale (VAS) | Vertigo symptom scale (VSS) | Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) | Vestibular disorder Activity of Daily Living scale (VADL) | SF-36
Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI)	Visual analogue scale (VAS) | Vertigo symptom scale (VSS) | Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) | Vestibular disorder Activity of Daily Living scale (VADL) | SF-36

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Vestibular disorder Activity of Daily Living scale (VADL)	4 times

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

kasturba medical college mangalore; 🇮🇳 Kannada, KARNATAKA, India

kasturba medical college mangalore

🇮🇳Kannada, KARNATAKA, India

VAISHALI

Principal investigator

9483625754

vaishali.kh@manipal.edu