What is Dizziness therapy in Edmonton?
Dizziness, an unpleasant sensation like pain… but what is it?
Dizziness is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of sensations, like:
- Swaying
- Disequilibrium or off-balance
- Vertigo (spinning)
- Light-headedness or fainting
- Disorientation
- Feeling off-centred
- Woozy or wobbly or foggy head
- Eyes moving faster than the head
It is quite often a sensory mismatch between the visual and vestibular systems. The visual-vestibular mismatch will create a sensory conflict causing woozy sensations.
Vertigo is a special type of dizziness wherein there is an illusion of movement of the environment or surroundings. This sensation is a result of the eye movements called nystagmus.
The complaint of dizziness is one of the most common reasons that older adults visit the doctor’s office.
A variety of systems in the body can produce dizziness.
- Cardio vascular disorders
- Neurological (Brain) disorders
- Vestibular system
- Psychogenic
- Pharmacological
- Cervical spine
- Visual system
Among these systems, the Vestibular system contributes to up to 45% of dizziness.
Following are few of the vestibular disorders causing dizziness, vertigo, and balance problems:
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: 30%
- Viral Inflammation of a vestibular nerve or Auditory nerve (Neuritis/Labyrinthitis): 13%
- Vestibular Migraines: 2%
- Age-related vestibular degeneration
- Meniere’s disease
- Head trauma
- Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness (3PD)
- Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS)