Vestibular function after vestibular neuritis

Abstract

Despite the objective evidence of their very different recovery patterns, both patients reported, at the final test, being happy and feeling well recovered, even though in one of the patients there was clear absence of horizontal canal function. The results indicate covert saccades seem a successful way of compensating for loss of horizontal canal function after unilateral vestibular neuritis. Factors other than recovery of the slow phase eye velocity are significant for patient recovery.