DIZZINESS & VERTIGO
Dizziness & Vertigo
Do You Need Relief From Dizziness And Vertigo?
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Do you find yourself feeling off-balance and finding it difficult to move? Do you stagger while you’re walking or feel like you’re going to fall? You may be experiencing dizziness.
Have you been feeling like the world is spinning, whirling, or tipping and unsteady? Do you find it hard to focus on one thing for a long period, feel tired, lightheaded or nauseous? You may be experiencing vertigo. Like dizziness, vertigo also impacts balance. It’s not uncommon for someone with vertigo to also experience nausea or vomiting.
If either of these symptoms describes your experience, you can count on our physiotherapists in Burlington at Cogent Physical Rehabilitation Center to help you find relief. Our physiotherapists are certified vestibular physiotherapists who are passionate about helping patients with complex conditions.
Make an appointment today with a physiotherapist at Cogent Rehab to learn more about our dizziness and vertigo clinic.
WHAT IS CAUSING MY DIZZINESS AND VERTIGO?
Peripheral vestibular dysfunction, which in volves the vestibular end organs and/or the vestibular nerve, can pro- duce a variety of signs and symptoms. A thorough evaluation by a physiotherapist is needed to identify the specific cause of a patient’s complaints of vertigo, vertigo or unsteadiness. Patient history is the main key for diagnosis, supported by a careful otoneurologic evaluation.
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
Vestibular Neuritis
Ménière’s disease
Perilymphatic Fistula
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common cause of vertigo. Typically, a patient with BPPV complains of brief periods of vertigo precipitated by rapid changes in head posture. The vertigo lasts only 30 sec to 2 min (often less than 1 min) and disappears even if the precipitating position is maintained. Symptoms may be brought about by assuming very specific head positions. More often these head positions involve rapid bending of the neck backwards with the head turned to one side (as when looking up to a high shelf or reversing a car out of a garage) or tilting the head sideways toward the affected ear. The symptoms often appear when a patient rolls from side to side in bed. Patients are able to identify the offending head position and are very careful to avoid that position. Many patients also complain of mild postural instability between attacks.
Vestibular neuritis, is the second most common cause of vertigo. Onset is often preceded by the presence of a viral infection of the upper respiratory or gastrointestinal tracts. The associated viral infection may be coincident with the vestibular neuritis or may have preceded by up to 2 weeks. The condition mainly affects those aged between 30 and 60 years, with a peak for women in the fourth decade and men in the sixth decade. The main symptom is the acute onset of prolonged severe rotational vertigo that is made worse by movement of the head, associated with spontaneous horizontal-rotatory nystagmus beating toward the good ear, postural imbalance with a tendency to fall toward the affected side, and nausea. The symptoms usually settle after a period of 48 to 72 hours, and gradual return to normal balance occurs over roughly 6 weeks.
Ménière’s disease is a disorder of inner ear function that can cause devastating hearing and vestibular symptoms. The typical attack is experienced as an initial sensation of fullness of the ear, a reduction in hearing, and tinnitus, followed by rotational vertigo, postural imbalance,
nystagmus, and nausea and vomiting after a few minutes. This severe disequilibrium (vertigo) will persist anywhere from approximately 30 min to 24 hours. Gradually, the severe symptoms will settle, and the patient is generally able to walk within 72 hours. Some sensation of postural unsteadiness will persist for days or weeks, and then normal balance will return.
Perilymphatic fistula may lead to episodic vertigo and hearing loss due to to the elasticity of the bony labyrinth in the inner ear. Most commonly, these fistulas occur at the round and oval windows of the middle ear. Classically, a history of (often minor) head trauma, barotrauma, mastoid or stapes surgery, penetrating injury to the tympanic membrane, or vigorous straining, sneezing, nose blowing precedes the onset of sudden vertigo, hearing loss, and loud tinnitus. The patients often report a “pop” in the ear during the triggering event. Later on, the patient with a fistula may complain of imbalance, positional vertigo, and nystagmus as well as hearing loss.
Physiotherapy in Burlington Can Provide Dizziness And Vertigo Relief
Vertigo and dizziness can interfere with your everyday activities and make the simplest difficult to impossible. Fortunately, overwhelming evidence supports the benefits of physiotherapy in resolving most cases.
Our physiotherapists at Cogent Physical Rehabilitation Center are experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of dizziness and vertigo conditions such as BPPV, vertigo, neuritis, imbalance and concussion-related symptoms.
SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT TO OBTAIN DIZZINESS AND VERTIGO RELIEF TODAY!
Our certified vestibular physiotherapists have been helping patients recover since 2016. We are fully aware of the impact that your condition has on you and those around you. You want your life back. We can help.
Schedule an appointment with us today, and we will get you back up and running as soon as possible.
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