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:

  1. Swaying
  2. Disequilibrium or off-balance
  3. Vertigo (spinning)
  4. Light-headedness or fainting
  5. Disorientation
  6. Feeling off-centred
  7. Woozy or wobbly or foggy head
  8. 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.

  1. Cardio vascular disorders
  2. Neurological (Brain) disorders
  3. Vestibular system
  4. Psychogenic
  5. Pharmacological
  6. Cervical spine
  7. 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:

  1. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: 30%
  2. Viral Inflammation of a vestibular nerve or Auditory nerve (Neuritis/Labyrinthitis): 13%
  3. Vestibular Migraines: 2%
  4. Age-related vestibular degeneration
  5. Meniere’s disease
  6. Head trauma
  7. Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness (3PD)
  8. Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS)
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