Learning More About Physical Therapy Treatment For Vertigo

By Anita Ortega


Unsteadiness is a disturbing feeling of movement when there is actually no motion. This uncomfortable feeling of motion when in real sense there is none is normally called rotating or whirling. It can go to an extent of one feeling as though you falling or bent in your position of standing. It also causes queasiness, lack of balance when walking and even when just standing. Physical therapy treatment for vertigo is also done through vestibular recovery 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 focus of treatment is to help reduce, dizziness, make the vestibular system work normally and as a result one should stop experiencing the falling feeling and be stable. This disease is experienced by both people of young age and old people. Some experiences that comes with this disease involve shaking which might be detrimental as they can cause accidents.

Bodily medication of this disease involve examination of the stability system, the ear and your ability to see properly. Making some designed head movements will go a long way in helping mot the systems which are not functioning for easy treatment and prescription.

In vestibular recovery the brain is expected to change and replace what is actually bringing up the unstableness while talking the designed exercise. How strong you are, you willingness to be instructed, how old you are, coordination and motor skills will determine how this is accomplished. Normally people work out in their homes and see their therapist ones or twice a week. The difficulty of the exercise ids increased as one continues recovering till you attain the normal stability.

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 to whom the patient is referred to is needed to examine him/her and identify the positional variations that bring about the unstableness. Test resistance of the probable medication, stability difficulty and may be any other sickness related to that

Currently there has been invented the most effective and most preferred mode of treatment known as Epley maneuver, this is involves brief and safe clinical head exercises which does not last long. The main cause of benign paroxysmal positional unsteadiness breaking of the calcium crystals in the inner ear and as a result float in the in the curved ear canal, now maneuver work on this principle to make the crystal move to another canal where they can be taken up by the body




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