What Is Vestibular Therapy?
Vestibular therapy alleviates dizziness, gaze instability, imbalance, and gait deficits caused by vestibular disorders and conditions.
Why Might I Need Vestibular Therapy?
Vestibular therapy will help you reduce your risk for falling and dizziness while improving your balance, symptom management, and gaze stabilization, allowing you to return to everyday activities.
You may benefit from vestibular therapy if you
- Experience falls or near falls.
- Often feel dizzy or lightheaded, especially when standing.
- Have trouble walking or struggle with veering while walking.
What to Expect With Vestibular Therapy
A vestibular therapist will review your medical history and complete a comprehensive assessment to evaluate your
- Balance and walking ability
- Strength and coordination
- Eye movement with an oculomotor assessment
- Positional testing using infrared goggles to assess for positional vertigo
After completing your assessment, your vestibular therapist will develop a customized exercise plan to improve your positional vertigo, gaze stabilization, balance, and motion sensitivity. Along with exercise, patient and caregiver education is an integral part of therapy.
Conditions We Treat
We see clients with a variety of disabilities and conditions, including the following:
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Labrynthitis
- Vestibular neuritis
- Meniere’s disease
- Acoustic neuroma
- Vestibular migraine
- Concussion
- General unsteadiness, dizziness, disequilibrium, or falls
Why Choose Us
Our NeuroRehab and Balance Center offers one of the largest groups of trained vestibular therapists in the country. Our vestibular therapists work closely with occupational therapists, who help identify how daily activities and vision are impacted by your dizziness. Full-time case management is available to assist with other life needs.
Using evidence-based treatments and specialized equipment, our team can help you reduce and manage symptoms so that you can safely return to daily activities. You can learn more about vestibular disorders here.
