Pilot Project on External Vestibular Prosthesis in Chronic Subjective Dizziness

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Conditions studied: Dizziness Chronic

In brief

Researchers are gathering information on the safety and effectiveness of a new device called the BalanceBelt.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02048670

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

12

Starts

2014-10-01

Expected to finish

2017-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-05-15

Who can join

Age: 25 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Subjects will be 25-70 years of age inclusive and pregnant women may participate.
• Patients will have CSD as their primary diagnosis for the cause of their balance and dizziness complaints provided by the Behavioral Medicine Program for Dizziness, a division of the Department of Psychiatry \& Psychology.
• Normal volunteers will have a negative history of otologic \& neurologic disorders and no history of dizziness and balance problems.
• Normal volunteers will have normal findings on a screening office examination for peripheral and central vestibular system involvement (see methods for details of the examination) and screening for normal or symmetrical hearing loss of explainable origin.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with positive indications from testing of peripheral and/or central vestibular system involvement that is felt to be influencing the symptoms reported beyond the CSD alone.
• Patients with mobility restriction that would prevent participating in the tests or the intensive therapy trials.
• Subjects with hearing impairment that interferes with oral communication.

Where it is running

• Mayo Clinic — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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