What People with Vestibular Disorders Should Know about Vestibular Rehabilitation
There are many disorders related to vestibular or inner ear balance that are said to be improved if people will undergo vestibular rehabilitation with the aid of vestibular rehabilitation therapy or VRT. If you are experiencing problems with vertigo, dizziness, visual disturbance, and or imbalance, then there is a probability that you are suffering from vestibular disorders.
It is then claimed that the best way to manage most causes of vertigo, dizziness and imbalance is by undergoing vestibular rehabilitation therapy. However, it is observed that in this field, only a very few trained specialists are competent enough to diagnose these disorders and be able to formulate treatment applications that are appropriate enough.
There are clinics that specialize in this treatment, and note that this is the domain of the chiropractic neurologist of which only a few doctors sub-specialize this field.
A specially trained vestibular physical therapist would design the vestibular rehabilitation which is a program based on exercise. With the aid of this program, a patient will have an improvement in his or her balance and reduce the dizziness related problems being experienced.
The nature of dizziness is described as those experiences like feelings of unsteadiness, of wooziness or swimming feeling in head, lightheadedness, a feeling of passing out, sensations of moving, spinning, floating, swaying, tilting, vertigo or whirling sensations. When you are standing still, or lying down, or changing your positions, you can feel either of these feelings or sensations.
Every year, it is claimed that more than 10 million of patients would visit a doctor because of dizziness. This complain can occur in patients of any age, although it is the most common concern of patients over the age of 75 years.
A physical therapis will evaluate your symptoms and evaluate your medical history during your appointment, and the professional will make an assessment about your balance and leg strength and flexibility, gait or how you walk, visual stability and mobility, neck mobility and arm and neck strength, and positional testing that includes an inner ear exam.
After evaluation of the findings based on the above areas, the therapist will develop a plan of care for your situation. As far as your concerns are found, the treatment plan will then have a goal of improving whatever is identified as deficient. The treatment will improve your ability to function in your daily activities, will reduce your risk of falling, and with the end goal of improving the quality of your life.
This treatment involves a wide range of techniques, and there are visual exercises, sensorimotor retraining, exercises that one can perform at home, and education of the family members are included. The main objective of the treatment, with the help of the family members, is to get the patient back to her or his fullest potentials.