Vestibular Physiotherapy
This therapy uses individualized techniques to help the brain compensate for problems in the vestibular system, helping to reduce or eliminate balance issues, often including vertigo. Treatment may include hearing, sensory, and imaging tests.
Let’s break it down…
Advantages of Therapy:
Reduce your risk of falling.
Improve your balance.
Reduce your dizziness symptoms.
Improve your ability to stabilize your vision.
Increase your body strength.
“The vestibular system provides the sense of balance and the information about body position that allows rapid compensatory movements in response to both self-induced and externally generated forces. The peripheral portion of the vestibular system is a part of the inner ear that acts as a miniaturized accelerometer and inertial guidance device, continually reporting information about the motions and position of the head and body to integrative centers located in the brainstem, cerebellum, and somatic sensory cortices.”
Purves D., Augustine G.J., Fitzpatrick D., Katz L.C., LaMantia A.S., McNamara J.O., and Williams S.M. (Eds.). (2001). The Vestibular System. Neuroscience (2nd edition). Sinauer Associates. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10799/
This system is critical for controlling balance, posture and movement when walking. When your vestibular system is not working correctly, you may experience symptoms such as, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, head motion intolerance, unsteady gait, and postural instability.