Abstract
This report concerns with the impairement of the patients with vertigo. Seventy-nine patients were studied with respect to their disability in their daily lives after their vertigo. The disability means that they cannot perform the action on that they feel difficulty in performing it. They were asked about disability in performing twelve actions; seeing small objects, seeing the objects moving rapidly and slowly, seeing on TV what moves rapidly and slowly, seeing on TV what moves slowly, seeing a curtain with vertical stripes, going up and down the stairs and operatiing word processors or computers. Though twenty-five out of seventy-nine had no disability on all items after vertigo, the other fifty-four felt disability in some of the actions. The twentyseven of them felt disability to see small objects, thirty of them, to watch rapidly moving objects, twenty-two of them, watch rapidly moving objects on TV, thirty of them, to act rapidly, twenty-one of them, to walk fastly, twenty-three of them, to go up and down staires, nineteen of them, to see a curtain with vertical stripes and fififteen of them, to operate word processors or computers. It is important that about seventy percent of the patients had disability in their lives. The evaluation of their disability is necessary to make effectvie rehabilitation of the patients with vertigo.
