Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, and degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Balance impairments are very common symptoms among people with MS (PwMS). Vestibular physical therapy (VPT) is an evidence-based approach aimed at managing and improving gaze and balance stability, which could be used to mitigate balance disorders in MS....
Audiologists and vestibular therapists treating patients with multiple sclerosis should consider vestibular physical therapy as a supported intervention for improving balance and reducing dizziness, pending review of the meta-analysis's effect sizes and heterogeneity.
Providing high-level systematic evidence that vestibular rehabilitation benefits people with MS strengthens the case for multidisciplinary referral pathways involving audiologists and physical therapists.
- 01Systematic review and meta-analysis synthesising evidence on vestibular physical therapy in multiple sclerosis.