The cientificWorldJOURNAL Clinical Study Treatment of Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo: A New Rehabilitation Technique

Copyright © 2012 D. Testa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new technical variant applied to the Gufoni’s manoeuvre, in the treatment of horizontal canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (HSC-BPPV). 87 patients with BPPV of HSC (55 women and 32 men), aged between 21 and 80 years, were randomized either to modified Gufoni’s manoeuvre or to the Gufoni’s manoeuvre. 93 % of patients treated with modified Gufoni’s manoeuvre was cured after the first treatment session, of which only 2 % had a conversion into PSC-BPPV, while the Gufoni’s manoeuvre led to a symptoms resolution in 88 % of cases, of which 16 % had a conversion into PSC-BPPV. Therefore, the modified Gufoni’s manoeuvre shows the same effectiveness in the resolution of symptoms of Gufoni’s manoeuvre, but it appears more effective than the latter to reduce the percentage of conversion of the HSC-BPPV into PSC-BPPV (χ2 = 6.13, P = 0.047). 1