1PhD Scholar, School of Physiotherapy, RK University, Rajkot
2Director, School of Physiotherapy, RK University, Rajkot, Gujarat
3Assistant Professor, Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Physiotherapy, Dr. D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune
*Corresponding author: Shahanawaz SD, PhD Scholar, RK University, Gujarat, Mob +91 9561551234, Email: hanu.neuropt@gmail.com
Online published on 23 December, 2015.
To review the exercise programme used in the treatment of dizziness based on the PEDRO scale.
The Pedro scale is based on the Delphi list developed by Verhagen and colleagues at the Department of Epidemiology, University of Maastricht. The list is based on “expert consensus” not, for the most part, on empirical data. Two additional items not on the Delphi list (Pedro scale items 8 and 10) have been included in the Pedro scale. As more empirical data comes to hand it may become possible to “weight” scale items so that the Pedro score reflects the importance of individual scale items.
The study was approved by the ethics in research commiee of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune with ref no. DYPV/EC/361/15, and the study was register clinical trail registry of india with no: CTRI/2015/10/006308 A literature search was conducted in electronic databases MEDLINE, SCIELO, EMBASE Cochrane library; Potentially relevant studies were identified by the following search strategy “Pedro scale, proprioception, vestibular, visual exercises, vestibular rehabilitation, cawthrone exercises, brandt daroff exercises, dizziness handicap inventory, balance outcome measure.
All 3 articles demonstrate that the dizziness is not significantly improve with any specific exercise and the 3 articles recommended, adding different exercise regimen will be beneficial in the treatment of dizziness, and we consider that it is sufficient amount of evidence to develop the of multi component exercise program on patients with dizziness.
Pedro Scale, Dizziness, BPPV, Vestibular Rehabilitation, Literature review
