Blog Category – Balance Vertigo

Using PWR!Moves is one of the best ways to help people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) improve their balance and mobility and reduce the risk of falls!

In this presentation, join Sharon Hall, DPT, NCS at Gordon Physical Therapy in Spokane Valley, WA as she explains how the PWR!Moves exercises help people with Parkinson’s slow down disease progression and improve mobility.

If you’d like move information and resources on how to treat Parkinson’s Disease, we’ll be posting more information on our website soon at this URL: https://GordonPhysicalTherapy.com/Parkinsons-Disease-Treatment

If you’re looking to treat your vertigo at home, specifically BPPV, you’ll want to start with these two positional tests first!

Before you try out the Epley Maneuver (or the Gufoni Maneuver), you need to know which canal is involved, on which side.

Once you establish posterior canal vs. horizontal canal, and establish right vs. left, now you have a good shot at effectively treating your vertigo!

So make sure you test FIRST before you start trying treatments!

If you’re trying to treat your BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) at home, you’re going to want to avoid these two common mistakes!

The first mistake seems kind of obvious, but I think it happens quite a bit…

Mistake #1: do NOT skip to treating with the Epley Maneuver without first performing the Dix-Halpike Test!

Once you test, then you can proceed to accurate treatment with the Epley Maneuver.

And this leads to the second mistake I see a lot of people making…

One of the most common questions I get from people trying to treat their BPPV is “Where do those crystals come from?” In addition, they usually ask “Are the crystals normal?”

To be clear, the little crystals (or rocks, depending on who you talk to) are called otoconia, and when they float into your “semicircular canals” they cause vertigo.

We call this type of vertigo BPPV, which stands for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. Our goal with the treatment of BPPV is to get those little crystals OUT of the semicircular canals and back where they came from (the “utricle”).

In this video, I’ll explain where those little crystals come from, and I’ll address the question about whether or not they’re “normal”.

If you’re suffering from vertigo, dizziness and lightheadedness, your first step in eliminating these annoying symptoms is to figure out the cause/diagnosis.

Two of the most common causes of vertigo and dizziness are Meniere’s Disease and BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo). In this video, I’ll break down how to tell the difference between these two causes.

Here’s a quick rundown of the main points: