Associations among medical therapy, self administered exercise, and characteristics of Ménière's disease

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dc.contributor.author Pyykko, Ilmari
dc.contributor.author Pyykko, Nora
dc.contributor.author Manchaiah, Vinaya
dc.date.accessioned 2024-03-25T05:59:58Z
dc.date.available 2024-03-25T05:59:58Z
dc.date.issued 2023-07
dc.description ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS :The authors would like to thank Nina Kallunki at the Finnish Ménière Federation for helping with the recruitment of study participants and all study participants for their time. en_US
dc.description.abstract BACKGROUND : The aim of the current study was to explore the associations among different therapeutic procedures, self-administered exercise, and characteristics of Ménière’s disease. METHODS : The study used a retrospective design and included 539 people with Ménière’s disease who were focusing on self-administered exercise. The mean age and history of Ménière’s disease among these participants were 61.9 years and 15.6 years, respectively. Of the participants, 79.5% were female. The data were collected by an electronic questionnaire that focused on symptoms of Ménière’s disease, exercise and training habits, balance problems, impacts of the complaints, quality of life, medical treatment, physiotherapy, and psychotherapy. RESULTS : Of the participants, 79.3% used medical treatment. Betahistine (56.8%) was the most popular followed by periodical anti-emetic use (41.0%) and diuretics (22.4%). Of the participants 70% were doing some self-administered training. The frequency of training depended on age, severity of balance problems, vestibular drop attacks, and gait problems. The type of training depended on age, quality of life, vestibular drop attacks, and gait problems. No association was found between vertigo and frequency/type of balance training. CONCLUSION : The use or effect of therapeutic procedures for Ménière’s disease patients was not related to symptoms experienced. Most participants with Ménière’s disease used training programs that aimed to alleviate their condition, especially balance-, gait-, and vestibular drop attack-associated problems. Patient support organizations should be working to help characterize the types of balance disorders people are dealing with in order to individually tailor a rehabilitation program to the patient’s needs. en_US
dc.description.department Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology en_US
dc.description.librarian am2024 en_US
dc.description.sdg SDG-03:Good heatlh and well-being en_US
dc.description.uri https://www.advancedotology.org en_US
dc.identifier.citation Pyykkö, I., Pyykkö, N. & Manchaiah, V. Associations among medical therapy, self-administered exercise, and characteristics of Ménière’s disease. Journal of International Advanced Otology 2023; 19(4): 323-332. DOI: 10.5152/iao.2023.21559. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2148-3817 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.5152/iao.2023.21559
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/95325
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher AVES en_US
dc.rights Content of this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. en_US
dc.subject Meniere’s disease en_US
dc.subject Medical therapy en_US
dc.subject Balance problems en_US
dc.subject Vestibular rehabilitation en_US
dc.subject Postural training en_US
dc.subject Eye movement training en_US
dc.subject SDG-03: Good health and well-being en_US
dc.title Associations among medical therapy, self administered exercise, and characteristics of Ménière's disease en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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