Abstract
This report is dealt with rehabilitation for a patient with vertigo due to streptomycin and patients with spino-cerebellar degeneration. In our hospital a combined treatment with thyropropin releasing hormon and rehabilitation training was applied on the patients with spino-cerebellar degeneration. It improved thier ability in walking.
The patient is a 45-year-old teacher of a school for the hearing impaired. He had been suffering from hearing loss due to meningitis since he was a child. He developed tubercular menigitis and had injection of streptomycin. It produced vertigo.
An explanation was made about the prognosis and causes of his vertigo. The patient was also advised how to get used to his vertigo and his handicap due to vertigo in daily life. This was helpful in the first step of rehabilitation. His rehabilitation training was given in the department of physical treatment and that of athletics: some exercise on mat and ball games. The training gave him selfconfldence in his daily action and helped to get used to vertigo.
