
How Vestibular Therapy Can Help with Dizziness and Balance
The goals of vestibular therapy may differ depending on the underlying conditions causing your dizziness. Vestibular rehabilitation may help you:
- Reduce dizziness and related symptoms
- Regain function
- Reposition inner ear crystals in cases of BPPV
- Develop ways to compensate for these problems through other senses such as vision
Vestibular rehabilitation uses exercise to address dizziness and balance impairments. Balance is a skill that coordinates multiple systems in the body, and exercise helps these systems work together in a coordinated fashion. Treatments include education as well as in-clinic and home exercises, such as:
- Repositioning maneuvers for BPPV (Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo)
- Habituation exercises that trigger dizziness to help your body to adjust and, over time, decrease the dizziness you experience
- Gaze stability training
- Balance retraining
- Exercise programs that address issues with weakness, decreased range of motion, etc.