INTRODUCTION: Vestibular rehabilitation has been recognized as a treatment of choice for patients with persistent vertigo due to peripheral vestibular dysfunction, providing significant improvements in quality of life. Among the treatments listed have been exercises Cawthorne and Cooksey, sensory integration and body-moving platforms. OBJECTIVE: The research objective was to invent the protocol of exercises in balance with the exercises of Cawthorne and Cooksey associated to the Sensory Integrative. METHOD: It was developed a pilot case, where was evaluated in the patient the balance for the Scale of Balance of Berg and Dynamic Gait Index (DGI); Five Times Sit-to-Stand (FTSTS), that evaluate the activity to sit down and to get up; Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) that evaluate symptoms of vertigo; Scale of Symptoms after Physiotherapeutic Treatment (ESATF), graduates the symptoms after exercises. It was developed a protocol associating 2 techniques, which the ocular exercises, cephalic and of trunk were associated to the swinging. 10 of 20 sessions were accomplished, due to the patient's little regular attendance. RESULTS: Patient obtained improvement from 19 to 22 in DGI; maintained the points of the Berg; she improved from 74 to 67 in DHI. In scale FTSTS she decreased the time from 15 to 14 seconds to accomplish activities of to sit down and to get up. In ESATF it happened oscillate in punctuation. CONCLUSION: After the treatment, the patient obtained an improvement in the appraised balance and improvement of the functional capacity, and she reduced the time spend to accomplish the activity of to sit down and to get up five times of a chair with the crossed arms. Additional studies with the proposed protocol should be accomplished, with a larger number of patients and regular attendance to have a faster adaptation.
Balance; Exercises; Vestibular rehabilitation; Cawthorne e Cooksey; Sensory integrative
