How to perform evidence-based vestibular rehabilitation therapy

Abstract

　One of the hazards in performing vestibular rehabilitation therapy is the lack of an adequate evidence base. McDonnell and Hillier reported a large cohort study that summarized all the available articles regarding evidence-based vestibular rehabilitation therapy and found that only 29 out of 1586 articles were actually evidence-based. This was a striking result, and unfortunately none of the 29 evidence-based reports were from Japan. However, several applications for vestibular rehabilitation have recently been accepted by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Thus, evidence-based vestibular rehabilitation therapy has just started. This report will discuss how to perform evidence-based vestibular rehabilitation therapy.