Reclaim Your Balance: Expert Vestibular Rehabilitation
Feeling dizzy, off-balance, or like the room is spinning can be exhausting and terrifying. When your vestibular system—the delicate sensory network in your inner ear and brain that controls balance—isn't functioning correctly, it can disrupt every aspect of your daily life.
You don't have to navigate this alone. Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) is an evidence-based, highly effective physical therapy approach designed to alleviate dizziness, resolve vertigo, and help you get back to moving with confidence.
Signs You Might Benefit From Vestibular Rehab
Vestibular issues often feel invisible to others, but the symptoms are very real. Our specialized therapy can help if you are experiencing:
- Vertigo: A sudden spinning or swaying sensation, often triggered by changing head positions.
- Chronic Dizziness: A persistent feeling of lightheadedness, floating, or a "fuzzy" head.
- Imbalance & Unsteadiness: Struggling to walk in a straight line, stumbling, or a fear of falling.
- Visual Sensitivity: Dizziness triggered by busy environments (like grocery stores), scrolling on a screen, or tracking moving objects.
- Specific Conditions: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV), vestibular neuritis, Meniere's disease, or post-concussion syndrome.
Our Approach to Your Care
Because the vestibular system is highly complex, a one-size-fits-all approach does not work. We conduct a comprehensive clinical assessment of your eye movements, balance, and gait to pinpoint the exact cause of your symptoms.
Based on your evaluation, we create a customized treatment plan that may include:
- Gaze Stabilization Exercises: Techniques to improve your vision and focus while your head is in motion.
- Canalith Repositioning Maneuvers: Specific, gentle head movements (like the Epley maneuver) to clear displaced calcium crystals in the inner ear that cause BPPV.
- Balance & Gait Training: Exercises designed to strengthen your steadiness on uneven surfaces or in the dark.
- Habituation Training: Controlled exposure to specific movements or visual environments to reduce your brain's dizzy response over time.
Frequently Asked Questions
During your first visit, we will review your medical history and listen closely to how and when your symptoms occur. We will then guide you through a series of tests to assess your balance, walking, and how well your eyes track movement. We may also test your response to different head positions. These tests help us determine if your symptoms are stemming from your inner ear, your central nervous system, or your neck, allowing us to build the right recovery plan.
In some cases, yes—but in a highly controlled and safe way. For many vestibular conditions, the key to getting better is a process called habituation. This means we intentionally, but gently, provoke mild symptoms so your brain can learn to adapt and ignore the dizzy signals. We will closely monitor your tolerance, and we will teach you how to manage and recover from these sensations at home.
This depends heavily on your specific diagnosis. If you have BPPV (the most common cause of positional vertigo), it can often be resolved in just 1 to 3 sessions using specialized repositioning maneuvers. For issues like vestibular neuritis or post-concussion dizziness, the brain takes longer to compensate, and a typical therapy program might last 4 to 8 weeks. Your therapist will give you a clear, personalized timeline after your initial assessment.
