Fall risk assessment and effect of vestibular rehabilitation in the elderly population

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 19 Comparison of % of improvement (%Δ) in DHI, DGI, and faller assessment test among the four subgroups of subjects

%Δ	Passed			Failed all (n = 10)	H	P
%Δ	Visual only (n = 5)	Somatosensory only (n = 3)	Visual and somatosensory (n = 12)	Failed all (n = 10)	H	P
DGI
Mean ± SD.	51.32 ± 17.44	55.82 ± 24.97	89.95 ± 59.23	98.81 ± 63.59	4.799	0.187
DHI (total)
Mean ± SD.	77.61 ± 6.27	76.97 ± 4.74	77.29 ± 8.18	75.47 ± 10.44	0.265	0.966
Faller assessment (number of criteria)
Mean ± SD.	93.33 ± 14.91	100.0 ± 0.0	93.75 ± 11.31	88.33 ± 15.32	2.198	0.532

H H for Kruskal Wallis test, p p value for comparing between the different groups, SD standard deviation, %Δ % of change between pre- and post-vestibular rehabilitation scores