The authors report on their experience with vestibular rehabilitation. Vertigo is the second most frequent general symptom and everybody has some experience with it. The ability to maintain equilibrium is due to the harmonious activity of three systems: vestibular, visual a nd somatosensory. Vestibular rehabilitation is a system of exercise and manoeuvres which stimulate compensatory mechanisms of the organism or build new stereotypes of equilibrium. The basic mechanisms are adaptation and substitution. Practical implementation of vestibular rehabilitation is the concern of specialized rehabilitation departments. After detailed otoneurological examination and elimination of an obvious organic factor the type of rehabilitation strategy is defined. Evaluation is by subjective and posturographic methods. The results, i.e. a better equilibrium and reduction of vertigo, in the authors’ group was, similarly as in the literature, recorded in 86 % patients. Vestibular rehabilitation is effective regardless of age, sex and the period of the patient’s complaints. Some protocols of exercise and results of posturo- graphic assessment are presented.

        Key words: vertigo, vestibular rehabilitation, examples of protocols