Complementary/Alternative Medicine for Abnormality in the Vestibular (Balance) System

Vestibular Neuronitis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Complementary/Alternative Medicine for Vestibulopathy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00032383
• Other study ID #: R21AT000553-01
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• First received: March 20, 2002
• Last updated: January 19, 2007
• Start date: April 2001
• Est. completion date: April 2003

Study information

• Verified date: July 2006
• Source: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the relative merits of vestibular rehabilitation and Tai Chi for patients with inner ear (vestibular) disorders.

Description:

It is proposed a randomized, blinded, controlled trial comparing vestibular rehabilitation (VR) to Tai Chi (TC). Our overall goal is to explore whether, and if so, how TC can improve functional, dynamic stability in persons with vestibulopathy (VSP). It is hypothesized that the TC group will demonstrate significantly greater improvement in performing functional activities than the VR group.

Sixty subjects will be randomly assigned into either TC instruction or VR. Both treatment groups will receive identical duration treatment once a week for 10 weeks, with supplemental home exercises. It is hypothesized that 1) TC improves whole-body dynamic locomotor stability more than does VR; 2) TC improves gait coordination during planned and unplanned obstacle encounters more than does VR; 3) TC improves whole-body speed related movement control more than does VR.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: April 2003
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Main inclusion criteria:

• vestibulopathy and locomotor unsteadiness

Main exclusion criteria:

• diseases/impairments that prevent rehab participation.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Vestibular Neuronitis
• Vestibulopathy

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Tai Chi

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Massachusetts General Hospital Biomotion Laboratory	Boston	Massachusetts

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

External Links

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