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Learning More About Physical Therapy Treatment For Vertigo

By Anita Ortega


Dizziness is an uncomfortable sense of motion when there is actually no motion at all. This feeling of motion when actually there is no actual movement is generally known as whirling or spinning. It may also include feelings of one falling or slanting in posture. Vertigo may cause nausea and vomiting, difficulties in balance, standing or even walking. A physical therapy treatment for vertigo is vestibular rehabilitation therapy.

This weird feeling of being dizzy is concerned with the flow of blood, an ear problem or nerve. When it is not so frequent no medication may be required but for people suffering from severe dizziness it is necessary to seek medical attention and the cause be known and treated.

The main aim of healing is to minimize light-headedness, restore normal function of the vestibular system to prevent falls and improve on one balance. Light-headedness can be a complication for any age patient. One may feel something like you are spinning, dizziness, foggy or just lack of balance and as a result, one ought to cause accidents that might be detrimental at times.

A physical assessment of unsteadiness will include checkup of your balance system, innermost ear and the visual systems. Several analytic head movements will help recognize dysfunctional systems to give room for individualized healing scheduling.

In vestibular rehabilitation therapy to let the brain to adjust to and compensate for what is causing the dizziness one is expected to do planned workout. The accomplishment of this dependent on one physical strength, ability to follow directions or instructions, the age of the patient, harmonization and motor abilities. In most cases, patients go to see a therapist few times and instead do perform the designated exercises at their homes. As they continue with their workout numerous times a day, the strain of the exercise increase until one achieve the required high level of stability when doing the head movement, walking and eye movement.

The most common form of unstableness which mostly occurs to people in the age bracket 50 and common to women is benign paroxysmal positional unsteadiness (BPPU). According to the research done it is much known to happen to people at age 70 and above, once this weird condition has come to the attention of a physician in a patient, one is advised to see a therapist for treatment which normally does not take long

The therapist would keenly inspect the patient and note the positional changes that cause the dizziness. Whether there are any balance difficulties related with BPPU and if the person has other illnesses that may affect the treatment to be done.

The recent known and better treatment is known as BPPV Epley maneuver and it is considered to be having secure guided head exercise which takes a few minutes. Considering the cause if BPPV is crushing of the calcium crystals that are in the semicircular canal then the cure comes up to make the crushed particles to move to another canal where they can be taken up in the blood stream of the body




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