Vibrotactile Feedback During Vestibular Therapy

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Vestibular Disease

In brief

This study evaluates the use of vibrotactile feedback to traditional vestibular treatment protocols. Half the patients will have vibrotactile feedback added to their treatment protocols while the other half will undergo traditional vestibular treatment without vibrotactile feedback.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02867683

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

27

Starts

2013-10-01

Expected to finish

2018-01-31

Last updated by the study team

2018-02-06

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• unilateral peripheral vestibular hypofunction
• bilateral peripheral vestibular hypofunction

You may not qualify if…

• confounding neurologic or neuromuscular disorders
• pregnancy
• inability to stand for 3 minutes
• recent lower extremity fracture/severe sprain within the last 6 months
• previous lower extremity joint replacement
• incapacitating back or lower extremity pain
• body too large for equipment

Where it is running

• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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