Influence of vestibular rehabilitation on the quality of life of individuals with labyrinth disease

Purpose to check the influence of vestibular rehabilitation concerning the quality of life of individuals through Brazilian questionnaire Dizziness Handicap Inventory applied pre and post-therapy. Methods 28 medical chart of individual of both sexes attended in a public teaching clinic at Belo Horizonte city, in where they were analyzed. On analyzed medical chart patients were been submitted to the questionnaire pre and post individual vestibular rehabilitation. The statistical analysis from the data was done through the paired T-Student test. Results the sample of study medical chart was composed of 28 patients, 23 (82%) of them were female. The average of ages was 54,7 years (±20,6) and the medium number of sessions was 5,6 (± 6,4). Before the treatment patients showed the following scores: 18,10 (±9,83) physics aspects, 13,5 (±8,57) functions and 15,14 (±7,48) emotional. After medium of 5,6 (± 6,4) sessions, there was a significant reduction in the physics 4,32 (±5,32), functions 4,32 (±6,91) and emotional 3,78 (±5,16) aspects. Conclusion it can be conclude that there was a significant statistic difference between the questionnaire scores pre and post personalized vestibular rehabilitation, showing that the vestibular rehabilitation is an important instrument on the improvement of life quality for with labyrinth disease.