NCT03034655

Reducing Rate of Falls in Older People by Means of Vestibular Rehabilitation (ReFOVeRe Study)

Reducing Rate of Falls in Older People With the Improvement of Balance by Means of Vestibular Rehabilitation (ReFOVeRe Study): Optimizing Costs

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 220 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of vestibular rehabilitation developed using computerized dynamic posturography or a mobile posturographic system with vibrotactile stimulation, to improve the balance in older people and reduce the number of falls.

Detailed description

Accidental falls, particularly in the elderly, are one of the most important socio-healthcare problems of ageing western societies. Many factors condition and favour falls; one of them is old age, usually related to a decline in sensorial functions and worsening of balance Vestibular rehabilitation has been shown to be effective to improve balance and reduce the number of falls in older people. Previous studies have demonstrated that exercises in computerized dynamic posturography (CDP) are more effective than other vestibular rehabilitation strategies in this group of age. But CDP is very expensive and not widespread. It would be important to minimize cost of posturographic vestibular rehabilitation. This study compare vestibular rehabilitation with two different posturographic devices (CDP and mobile posturographic system with vibrotactile stimulation), in people over 65 years. Additionally, we try to assess whether the reduction in the number of vestibular rehabilitation sessions (five) leads to an improvement in balance and in reducing the number of falls similar to those obtained with ten sessions.

Conditions

• Dizziness Chronic
• Fall

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	CDP	Vestibular rehabilitation using CDP
DEVICE	Mobile posturography	Vestibular rehabilitation using mobile posturography
OTHER	10 sessions	Vestibular rehabilitation, ten sessions
OTHER	5 sessions	Vestibular rehabilitation, five sessions

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-08-31
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2017-01-27
• Last updated: 2018-02-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain