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What treatment options are available for vertigo and dizziness? 

In my last video, I went over the differences between dizziness and vertigo. By the end of this, you will have a better understanding of the treatment options for both dizziness and vertigo.

I am Dr. Danny Masters, I'm a Physical Therapist and I can't wait to help you get over your vertigo and dizziness.

So what are some common treatment options for dizziness? 

Depending on the type or cause of your dizziness, there are several different treatment options. Some common treatment options that doctors may use are changing medications or using different medications, depending on having dizziness as a side effect from other current medications but then they also may prescribe different medications to help kind of improve to help improve the symptoms that you're having. 

While some of the treatment options that a PT will do, including me, will be retraining your body to adjust to positional changes or changes in blood flow or blood pressure along with increasing your strength and working on balance exercises as well.

What are some common treatments for vertigo?

This also depends on what is causing your vertigo. It could be from your vestibular system, which is in your inner ear, that helps with balance or it also could be caused by your central nervous system. Some common treatments that your doctor may use include medic, use of medications, flushing your inner ear, or in some cases even surgery.

While PTs will use different exercises to retrain your vestibular system or central nervous system including your head and eye movements. Exercises for gaze stability, habituation, which means retraining your body to adjust to different positions or motions and then also utilizing different balance exercises. 

PTs are also trained to perform certain maneuvers to help with BPPV which is a type of vertigo caused by benign proximal positional vertigo which is your vertigo is caused by different positions of your head and so then those are followed up by home exercises to continue to manage your symptoms after the maneuver is performed.

Go ahead and comment below and let me know how this video helped you and then you can also click on our website to view the other blogs on vertigo at www.therapyandpilates.com/category/vertigo . 

Thank you for watching. So do you live in the Austin area and are having issues with either dizziness or vertigo? Feel free to go ahead and give us a call at 512-215-4227 to learn more. Thank you and have a good one

Dizziness! Vertigo! What is the actual difference?

Are you experiencing one or the other or just simply not sure what it is? Go ahead and watch this video and you'll be able to figure out the difference between these two terms, dizziness and vertigo.

If you're watching this video and you're having any issues with feeling light-headed or dizzy or kind of off balance, this is the video for you because you're going to figure out what the actual difference is between dizziness and vertigo. 

Have you been told that you have vertigo or dizziness or you're just having problems feeling light-headed or off-balance go ahead and watch this video and I'm going to explain the differences between the two. 

My name is Dr. Danny Masters, I'm a Physical Therapist and I've helped treat many people with symptoms of dizziness and vertigo. 

So what exactly is dizziness? 

Dizziness is kind of an umbrella term that has been used frequently but things get mixed up together. It's been used to describe symptoms of vertigo and other feelings but in fact, dizziness is actually the light-headed feeling like you're about to faint or you feel you're going to pass out. Or it's seen in balance where you feel unsteady on your feet, maybe a little topsy turvy.

So there are a couple different examples of this that can happen. You change positions quickly. You can have changes of blood flow to your brain or changes in your blood pressure.

It can also be caused by side effects from different kinds of medications or you can have issues with your cardiovascular system or with your central nervous system. 

What is vertigo? 

So a lot of times people use vertigo and dizziness interchangeably but the big, main difference is with vertigo there's actually a true spinning feeling. A spinning feeling means that it can be one of two things.

One is you feel like the room or the environment is spinning. It's like you're standing up and you're looking at the ground and it's spinning and that is actually called Oscillopsia. Then there's another form where the room and the environment is stationary. It's not really moving but you feel like the room is moving. 

What are the common causes? 

Some common causes of that can be issues with your vestibular system which is the system in your inner ear that helps your balance and allows your body to know where it is in the environment. It can also be caused by some other central nervous system issues as well.

This is why it's important to get properly assessed by a trained healthcare provider, including a physical therapist, to diagnose what the issue is, dizziness or vertigo. Then be able to have the appropriate treatment plan in place.

Knowing these differences is really important. Get properly assessed by a healthcare professional to appropriately diagnose what the issue is and then go ahead and set up a specific treatment plan to target your specific symptoms and the underlying causes of either dizziness or vertigo.

If this really helped you and you gained some new knowledge of the difference between dizziness and vertigo, go ahead and comment below! Then you can go see our blog page at our website… https://therapyandpilates.com/category/vertigo/

Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoyed the video and got some good information about the differences between dizziness and vertigo.

Be on the lookout for our next video in the series but if you live in the Austin area, feel free to come in and get evaluated so we can help treat you sooner.

Call 512-215-4227 to tell us your story about dizziness or vertigo.

What are some tips I can implement today to help Vertigo & Dizziness? Watch this video to learn more! Can you do me a favor and subscribe to our channel and click that button so that you are notified when all of our content comes out.

We provide content on holistic health, wellness, physical therapy, pilates, Gyrotonic. What can I do to help my vertigo and dizziness? By the end of this you will know the best tips from Joseph Pilates, Dr Daniel Masters and myself. 

My name is Stephen Dunn, Im a Holistic Physical Therapist, I’ve helped many patients with vertigo and dizziness over my 23+ year career and can’t wait to help you…

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Check out my vertigo category on my blog page. 

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