Electrical vestibular stimulation as a tool for treatment of bilateral vestibular loss. Literature review

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The review of the literature on RSCI and PubMed databases presents methods of electrical vestibular stimulation to improve vestibular function in patients with bilateral vestibulopathy. The variants of stimulation of peripheral vestibular structures, such as vestibular implantation, noise galvanic vestibular stimulation are described. The perspectives of development of this direction, advantages of application of electrical stimulation in the future, as well as current limitations that do not currently allow to use these methods in clinical practice are shown.

Keywords:

bilateral vestibular loss

noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation

vestibular rehabilitation

Authors:

Kunelskaya N.L.

Sverzhevsky Research Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology;
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

ORCID: 0000-0002-1001-2609

Baybakova E.V.

Sverzhevsky Research Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology

ORCID: 0000-0002-3430-6273

Zaoeva Z.O.

Sverzhevsky Research Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology

ORCID: 0000-0002-2501-0200

Chugunova M.A.

Sverzhevsky Research Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology

ORCID: 0000-0002-4632-7901

Manaenkova E.A.

Sverzhevsky Research Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology

ORCID: 0000-0001-8023-4883

Vinogradova M.V.

Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

ORCID: 0000-0003-2651-1442

Received:

28.02.2024

Accepted:

03.06.2024

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