Save 60% of time with the shortened Dizziness Handicap Inventory
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Save 60% of time with the shortened Dizziness Handicap Inventory
In any vestibular, neurological or even orthopaedic practice that treats patients with dizziness and vertigo, the use of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) is the most popular self-report questionnaire. We have written about this outcome measure for sensorimotor disorders in a previous post to utilize for clinical practice. You can also access the DHI, and other sensorimotor measures, on our Cervicogenic Dizziness Kit page. Even though answering 25 questions isn’t the biggest time consuming event for patients and clinicians, it is always nice to do less and get same outcome. Recently, van Vugt and colleagues in 2020 thought this way too. The authors studied a 10 item questionnaire, entitled shortened version of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI-S) — initially created by Jacobson & Calder in 1998 — and compared its psychometric properties compared to the gold standard of the DHI. Here is the main points that come from the article: Therefore, it is applicable to utilize the DHI-S in clinical practice. Awesome!
So how does this relate to Cervicogenic Dizziness?
As noted in the title, 60% of the questions are omitted in the shortened version of the DHI. Unfortunately, the DHI-S is missing 2 out of 3 key questions that Susan Reid & colleagues found in 2017 to screen patients with Cervicogenic Dizziness. The key questions on the DHI for screening for Cervicogenic Dizziness are: The DHI-S does include #2 above, which would usually be answered, “No”, if someone has Cervicogenic Dizziness. However, #1 and #3 above, which would usually be answered, “Yes”, if someone has Cervicogenic Dizziness, are missing. Therefore, if you are using the DHI to screen patients and assist in ruling out Cervicogenic Dizziness (such as prior to your physical examination), you will be missing too many data points, at least based on Reid’s 2007 work, from the DHI-S to make an appropriate call. Also, the items missing in the DHI-S do not show the potential of head on neck awareness as #1 and #3 above ask, again, confirming not a good measure for Cervicogenic Dizziness. You can learn more about the screening and treatment process of Cervicogenic Dizzinesss through Integrative Clinical Concepts, where the author and his wife, a Vestibular Specialist, teach a 2-day course. Pertinent to this blog post, the first day provides the most up-to-date evidence review from multiple disciplines to diagnose through the “Optimal Sequence Algorithm” to assist in ruling out disorders and ruling in cervical spine, including determining if single or double entity exists.
If you would like to host a course for your staff (either a vestibular, neuro, sports or ortho clinic), please do not hesitate to contact me at harrisonvaughanpt@gmail.com for prices and discounts. Sign up for more emails on this topic by clicking here Authors Harrison N. Vaughan, PT, DPT, OCS, Dip. Osteopracic, FAAOMPT Instructor: Cervicogenic Dizziness for Integrative Clinical Concepts Danielle N. Vaughan, PT, DPT, Vestibular Specialist Instructor: Cervicogenic Dizziness for Integrative Clinical Concepts
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