Vertigo Treatment Newport Beach

Dizziness is a word covering several different experiences, and separating them is most of the work. True vertigo is a spinning sensation. Light-headedness, unsteadiness and a feeling of floating are different things with different causes.

How Vertigo Treatment Newport Beach begins

By working out which you have and what brings it on. Vertigo that lasts under a minute and is triggered by rolling over in bed or looking up points strongly at BPPV, a problem in the inner ear that responds to specific repositioning manoeuvres rather than to adjusting.

Where the neck genuinely comes in

Cervicogenic dizziness is a real but over-diagnosed entity. It tends to be unsteadiness rather than spinning, it accompanies neck pain and stiffness, and it is provoked by neck movement rather than head position. Vertigo Treatment Newport Beach patients with that pattern often do well with neck treatment.

How we tell them apart

Positional testing, examination of neck movement and joint play, and whether the symptoms track with the neck or with head position independent of the neck. The two are frequently confused, and treating the wrong one wastes weeks.

The causes that are not ours

Dizziness with hearing loss or ringing points at the inner ear. With double vision, slurred speech, weakness or numbness it is neurological and urgent. On standing, it is often blood pressure or medication. Persistent unexplained dizziness needs a medical work-up rather than manual therapy.

Why we are cautious here

Dizziness is one of the presentations where a small number of serious causes hide among many benign ones. We screen carefully before treating, and we will send you for medical assessment if anything in the history warrants it rather than starting a course and seeing how it goes.

What to bring to the first visit

A note of when it happens, how long each episode lasts, and what you were doing immediately before. Dizziness is remembered badly and described inconsistently, and a fortnight of brief notes narrows the cause faster than any single conversation. Bring a list of your medications too, since several common ones cause dizziness as a side effect and that is a much easier problem to solve than most of the alternatives.