Reabilitação vestibular e qualidade de vida em idosos com queixa de tontura

• Autor(a) principal: Paz-Oliveira, Andréa
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11931
• topic: Idoso; Tontura; Equilíbrio; Equilíbrio postural; Reabilitação; Aged; Dizziness; Balance; Postural balance; Rehabilitation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FONOAUDIOLOGIA

INTRODUCTION: The balance disorders, clinically characterized as dizziness, vertigo, imbalance and falls are among the most common complaints of the elderly population. Aging impairs the ability of the central nervous system to perform the signal processing vestibular, visual and proprioceptive responsible for maintaining body balance and diminishes the capacity for adaptive changes in reflexes. These degenerative processes are responsible for the occurrence of vertigo and/or dizziness and imbalance in the geriatric population. The program of vestibular rehabilitation (VR) is composed of exercises that aim to promote the return of function of the static and dynamic balance, restoring also the spatial orientation and is one of the most effective methods to recover body balance in the elderly because it is able to decrease dizziness, better balance and consequently improve the quality of life of the elderly. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of vestibular rehabilitation in a group of elderly patients with dizziness. METHOD: This is a prospective, longitudinal, qualitative and quantitative. All subjects responded to the dizziness handicap inventory (DHI Brazilian version - Dizziness Handicap Inventory) and underwent the tests of static and dynamic balance as follows: Romberg, Romberg Barre, Utenberg, Fournier and linear walking test with eyes open and eyes closed before and after the RV. There were eight VR sessions in groups of three to four subjects and the protocol used was the Cawthorne and Cooksey. The exclusion criteria was used Mini Mental State Examination - MMSE, which assists in screening the cognitive status of the elderly. RESULTS: We evaluated 10 patients, four men (40%) and 6 women (60%). In this sample, 60% of patients had tinnitus. Their ages ranged between 62 and 83 years, with a mean of 68.9 years. In the walking tests, all subjects were able to perform more tests, eyes open (EO) and Closed Eyes condition (EC) after VR, and the average VR for EO was 3.3 pre and post VR was 4,4 and provided the average pre EC VR = 1.5 and 3.7 after RV. The result of DHI was lower after the RV in all subjects, with the average of the DHI before RV was 33.8 and after RV was 8.0. CONCLUSION: The elderly with dizziness showed impaired quality of life in relation to physical, emotional and functional, evaluated the application of Brazilian DHI. After all reported a decrease in RV dizziness and improve balance with improved quality of life, both in the physical, functional and emotional. In all tests of static and dynamic seniors have improved, managing to do more tests after the RV. It was also observed that the factors age, sex and vestibular were not determining factors for the end of treatment response