Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy

Dizziness and balance go hand in hand.  

A physical therapist and a physical therapy assistant trained in this approach can help a client figure out the cause of their balance problems. These symptoms may arise with inner ear dysfunctions, a viral infection, migraine, medication side effects, anxiety, dehydration, and other causes. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is a fairly common and reversible condition. It occurs when calcium carbonate crystals become dislodged and impair the regular flow of fluid in the inner ear. Your sense of balance relies on the relationship between your central nervous system and your sensory system, which includes the vestibular labyrinth in your ear, your vision, and your skin, joints, and muscles.

What are the benefits of vestibular rehabilitation therapy?

Balance issues and dizziness impact the ways in which you go about your day-to-day life. With the help of our Dynamic healthcare team, you will be able to:

• Reduce your risk of falling
• Improve ability to stabilize vision
• Explore various eye movement systems to cancel vestibular deficits
• Enhancing postural stability
• Adaptation to your remaining vestibular function with a curated treatment plan

What factors impact vestibular recovery?

At your appointment with your Dynamic therapist, you will work together to find out the causes of your balance impairments, and together, will work on ways to manage your dizziness symptoms.

• Medications
• Visual and somatosensory inputs
• Stage at which you begin treatment
• The duration of your daily exercise
• Symptom intensity
• Lesion site (for example, those with central lesions are less severe than mixed lesions)
• Age
• Psychogenic factors such as anxiety and depression

What should I expect?

Being at risk of falling and experiencing dizziness can be uncomfortable, and at times, scary. At Dynamic, you can expect to have our therapists:

• Use a variety of exercises like habituation exercises, gaze stabilizing exercises, and balance training exercises to reduce the symptoms of dizziness
• Evaluate how well the vestibular part of your ear is working
• Screen visual systems to see how well your eye movements are being controlled
• Improve your visual disturbance with head movement
• Help you reduce dizziness complaints
• Help you increase participation in daily activities
• Help you resolve your positional vertigo

At Dynamic, we believe that therapy is the most efficient way to return to what you love to do. Schedule an appointment today to get started.

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