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Conditions | Vertigo (Dizziness)

Vertigo is a feeling that you or your surroundings are moving when there is no actual movement.
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Talk to Your Doctor

Feeling Dizzy? What to Tell Your Doctor

Vertigo can be a difficult disease to describe, pick up some tips here

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Crowds and Dizziness

Do You Get Dizzy in Crowds? It May be CSD

CSD, or Chronic Subjective Dizziness, is experienced by people while in crowds

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Introduction

Balance Testing

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Home Epley Maneuver

Brandt-Daroff Exercises

Meniere's Disease

Trauma

Inner Ear Infection

Semicircular Canal Dehiscence

Central Vertigo

Brain Tumors

Dizziness and the Elderly

Lightheadness

Trauma

by James V. Crawford, MD, MAJ, MC

Victims of head injuries may present with dizziness. It may be anywhere from true vertigo to a sense of dizziness or imbalance. Depending on the mechanism of the head injury, the dizziness may be more or less severe. Victims of mild traumatic brain injury often have dizziness as their only complaint.

Research is currently underway to help define the mechanism. Soldiers who have been injured by IEDs frequently will have dizziness. Testing of individuals with TBI typically shows relatively normal results, but often with an uncompensated high frequency loss of balance function identified on rotational chair testing. Treatment is limited to vestibular physical therapy, which seems to be effective.

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