Five-Day Multimodal Rehabilitation For A 45 Year-Old Female with Mal de Debarquement Syndrome Results in an 80% Reduction of Dizziness

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Event Abstract Back to Event Five-Day Multimodal Rehabilitation For A 45 Year-Old Female with Mal de Debarquement Syndrome Results in an 80% Reduction of Dizziness David Traster1, 2*, Kelsey Brenner2 and Joseph Coppus2 1 Carrick Institute, United States 2 Independent researcher, United States Background: 45-year-old female who presents with a ten year history of constant dizziness as a result of mal de debarquement syndrome. Symptoms began immediately after week long cruise. Methods: A thorough neurological examination was performed and monitored along with pre/post diagnostic parameters including neurocognitive testing, dynamic posturography (CDP), videonystagmography (VNG), and quantitative electroencephalography(QEEG). Three therapy sessions in five days were performed and included therapies such as vestibular rehabilitation, visual rehabilitation, balance training, electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves, and z-score neurofeedback training. Results: An 80% improvement in dizziness, a 21% improvement in balance, and a 36% improvement was seen in Trails B testing during the neurocognitive assessment after the five day treatment program. Conclusion: The patient had improvements in subjective symptoms, as well as objective measurements of balance and executive function. The authors suggest continued research in a multimodal neurological rehabilitation in regards to treatment of mal de debarquement syndrome. Keywords: dizziness and vertigo, Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS), vestibular rehabilitaiton, neurologic rehabilitation, brain rehabilitation, Neurofeedback (NFB) Conference: International Symposium on Clinical Neuroscience, Orlando, United States, 24 May - 26 May, 2019. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Clinical Neuroscience Citation: Traster D, Brenner K and Coppus J (2019). Five-Day Multimodal Rehabilitation For A 45 Year-Old Female with Mal de Debarquement Syndrome Results in an 80% Reduction of Dizziness. Front. Neurol. Conference Abstract: International Symposium on Clinical Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.fneur.2019.62.00069 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 15 Mar 2019; Published Online: 27 Sep 2019. * Correspondence: Dr. David Traster, Carrick Institute, Cape Canaveral, Florida, 32920, United States, dtraster3@gmail.com Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers David Traster Kelsey Brenner Joseph Coppus Google David Traster Kelsey Brenner Joseph Coppus Google Scholar David Traster Kelsey Brenner Joseph Coppus PubMed David Traster Kelsey Brenner Joseph Coppus Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.