Vertigo can strike by simply standing up, turning your head, bending over, or getting out of bed. When symptoms like dizziness and lightheadedness start to impact your day, the instability of balance can feel like a threat.
The team at Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation in Lafayette Hill, the Main Line, East Falls, Elkins Park, Manayunk, and Hatfield, Pennsylvania, specialize in balance therapy for anyone suffering from vertigo and other problems affecting their vestibular system.
Let’s look at how a chiropractic practice can help you regain sure footing after an experience with compromised balance.
In short, vertigo is a sensation that’s described as the perception of movement when none is happening. You can feel unbalanced or spinning, dizzy or nauseous. There may be a precipitating movement or it might occur spontaneously.
Vertigo is often pervasive or persistent, distinguishing itself from mild lightheadedness or dizziness. It can seem like an in-your-head feeling that drives your other symptoms. It might feel like a supercharged form of dizziness.
There are many causes of vertigo and it’s possible there’s more than one at work at any given time. Common causes include:
Ruling out noncontributors and pinpointing causes usually helps to produce beneficial treatments.
Though you may think of chiropractic adjustments as a treatment for the relief of musculoskeletal pain, the goal is to restore alignment and balance to your body, optimizing blood flow and nerve transmission while relieving physical tension.
These goals can, in themselves, provide improvements for some vertigo conditions, without drugs or medical procedures. Another common treatment repositions tiny crystals in the inner ear. When these become displaced, they change the way your body perceives itself in 3-D space. A simple series of gentle movements helps to relocate these crystals where they belong.
We also offer balance rehabilitation. This takes many forms, drawn as needed for your condition. Techniques include:
Balance rehabilitation programs are, by their nature, tailored to the specifics of your vertigo causes and symptoms. Ongoing symptoms require professional evaluation before weak balance endangers your health.
Contact Active Care Chiropractic & Rehabilitation at the nearest of our six locations to schedule a vertigo consultation today.
