Vestibular rehab

Vestibular rehab

What is Vestibular rehab?

This is a type of physical therapy aimed at helping strengthen the vestibular system. This system sends signals to your brain about your head and body movements.

Before, we understand the Vestibular rehab, it important to understand about vertigo and dizziness. Vertigo isn’t the same as dizziness.

Dizziness – Feeling dizzy mean, you’re lightheaded, weak, or unsteady on your feet. The dizziness can be result from a drop in blood pressure, medications, vision problem, or a mental health condition and other reasons.

Vertigo – Vertigo is a specific type of dizziness that is explains as dizziness with the illusion of movement occurring in the surrounding environment. Patient tells like the room is spinning or the bed is spinning. They perceive the movement in the surrounding environment. Some time the Vertigo can be described as a spinning sensation accompanied by a sense of imbalance and dizziness.

Vertigo Causes

Vertigo often happens because of an inner ear problem and some other common causes include: conditions such as migraine, head injury, Meniere’s disease, Vestibular neuritis or labyrinthitis.

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is inner ear disorder happens when tiny calcium particles (canaliths) get dislodged from their normal location and collect in the inner ear semicircular canal. These partials disrupt the communication with brain that result vertigo.

Vertigo can also caused by head or neck injury, stroke or brain tumor, Certain medications that cause ear damage, including some antibiotics, heart drugs, and anti-inflammatory medicines, Migraine headaches, Ear infection, Acoustic neuroma, a noncancerous tumor in the ear, Dehydration, Irregular heart rhythms, Ear surgery, Low blood pressure, Diseases such as multiple sclerosis or diabetes, Otosclerosis, abnormal bone growth in the middle ear