DIZZINESS VESTIBULAR REHABILITATION
When vertigo sets in and the room starts spinning, it can be very unsettling. With Vital Physical Therapy’s Vestibular Rehabilitation Program, your physical therapist will create a personalized program to fit your needs and help you gain control over your life again. With the help of exercises, your dizziness and loss of balance can be reduced immensely. If you have a vestibular disorder that is affecting your life, learn more about our program that can relieve your symptoms.
Conditions that Can Benefit from Vestibular Rehabilitation
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
- Vestibular Neuritis
- Vestibular Labyrinthitis
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Post-Op Acoustic Neuroma resection
- Dizziness related to Motion Sensitivity
- Mal de Debarquement
- Motion Sensitivity
- Aging, Dizziness & Imbalance
What You Will Accomplish with Our Program
After a thorough evaluation including a questionnaire and different tests to evaluate the patient’s problem, we will determine the best treatment plan for you. With our program, you can hope to start living a more active life with better balance and a decrease in the amount of dizziness and vertigo. You will learn exercises to practice at home along with how to handle vertigo situations when they arise. With dedication to practice the prescribed exercises, patients can expect their symptoms to diminish immensely.
Balance Training
- Improve steadiness so that normal day-to-day activities can be performed at ease.
- Multi-tasking exercises include balancing while performing a task.
- Cues using visual and other senses.
- Movement of hips and ankles, or both.
- Completing normal daily activities.
- Exercise Prescriptions to gradually increase aerobic activity to build endurance and strength at home.
Other Exercises
- Habituation Exercise– The exercises are meant to provoke the symptoms of dizziness through specific movements or visual stimuli. The patient’s symptoms will worsen at first, but over time the brain will begin to ignore the signal from the inner ear that causes dizziness and vertigo.
- Gaze Stabilization– This exercise is meant to train the eye to stabilize during head movements. One exercise for gaze stabilization involves the eyes focusing on an object while moving the head around. The other exercise involves using both vision and body senses to focus on objects and tends to be used for patients who have damaged vestibular systems or patients with damage to both inner ears.
What Can Impact Recovery?
- Not doing prescribed exercises– Achieving optimal recovery will only come from staying consistent with your prescribed exercises.
- Having a progressive vestibular disorder– Conditions like multiple sclerosis or inconsistent conditions like migraines or Meniere’s, make success harder to achieve.
- Being Inactive- When movement is limited, when movement does occur, it will make the symptoms more extreme. When exercise is regular, the body will get used to movement and therefore react better.
- Pain– Pain can cause an imbalance and defer patients from doing their prescribed exercises. This will result in no improvement and an increased chance of falling.
- Other Conditions– Conditions such as arthritis, vision problems, foot problems, cognitive impairments and neurological diseases or any other conditions that affect balance and mobility can defer treatment from being effective.
- Medications- Some medications cause dizziness, muscle fatigue, weakness and sedation which can cause the patient to fall. Vestibular Physical Therapy can be ineffective while experiencing these side effects.
Contact Us
With a combination of personalized exercise plans and education, Vital Physical Therapy can help a patient who has recently endured a cardiac event recover and improve their life. Contact us today to schedule an appointment to start your recovery.