Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy is a specialized type of rehabilitation that helps you manage your dizziness, imbalance and vertigo.  Dizziness, imbalance and vertigo can be caused by many different conditions, our therapy team are trained to recognize and determine the best treatment for management of your symptoms.  Dizziness, imbalance and vertigo can cause you to feel fatigued, have ‘brain fog’, headaches and/or falls. Our balance system is a combination of systems that work with your brain and your sensory systems, these include:

• Your vision: your eyes send signals to your brain to see your environment and where objects are

• Your sensation and recognition of where your body is in space: sometimes called ‘proprioception’, this is our ability to know where we are with our eyes closed.  Also, being able to recognize the surface we walk on.

• Your vestibular apparatus in your inner ear: this small apparatus (the size of a dime!) in each ear consists of semicircular canals that detect angular head movement and the otolith organs which react to linear movement and gravity. 

Our Brain is able to synthesize all the data from these 3 systems to allow for us to maintain our balance.  In Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy, our therapists will determine where there is dysfunction or the condition that is present to allow for an individualized and evidence-based treatment. The conditions we can treat in Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy include, but aren’t limited to:

• Vertigo

• Meniere’s Disease

• Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)

• Labyrinthitis

• Vestibular Neuritis

• Stroke

• Brain Injury

• Unilateral or Bilateral Vestibular Hypofunction