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Vertigo is a sensation of feeling off balance. If you have these dizzy spells, you might feel like you are spinning or that the world around you is spinning. Vertigo is often triggered by a change in the position of your head.

This feeling may be barely noticeable, or it may be so severe that you find it difficult to keep your balance and do everyday tasks.

Attacks of vertigo can develop suddenly and last for a few seconds, or they may last much longer. If you have severe vertigo, your symptoms may be constant and last for several days, making normal life very difficult.

Causes

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
Meniere's disease
Vestibular neuritis or labyrinthitis
Migraine headaches
A head injury
Ear surgery
Perilymphatic fistula, when inner ear fluid leaks into the middle ear due to a tear in either of the two membranes between the middle ear and inner ear shingles in or around the ear (herpes zoster oticus)
Otosclerosis, when a middle ear bone growth problem leads to hearing loss
Syphilis
Ataxia, which leads to muscle weakness
A stroke or a transient ischemic attack, which people sometimes refer to as a mini stroke
Cerebellar or brain stem disease
Acoustic neuroma, which is a benign growth that develops on the vestibulocochlear nerve near the inner ear
Multiple sclerosis

Symptoms

Spinning
Tilting
Swaying
Unbalanced
Pulled to one direction
Feeling nauseated
Vomiting
Nausea
Abnormal or jerking eye movements (nystagmus)
Headache
Sweating
Ringing in the ears or hearing loss

Differential Diagnosis

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
Vestibular neuritis
Meniere disease
Otosclerosis
Vestibular migraine
Cerebrovascular disease
Cerebellopontine angle and posterior fossa meningiomas
Psychiatric
Medication induced

Here at Nova Health Physiotherapy Clinic, we will evaluate the causes of your pain and dysfunction, develop an individually tailored treatment plan and provide one-on-one treatment to get you to pain free life.

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