Dizziness, Vertigo and Balance Disorder Treatments

• Balance Disorders Institute of Los Angeles

• NYU Medical Center: Vestibular Rehab Program
  "The Vestibular Rehabilitation Program provides outpatient care to adolescents and adults including support services for both the patients and their families. Treatment is offered for a wide variety of conditions that result in dizziness and imbalance including, but is not limited to: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, inner ear concussion syndrome, labrynthitis, acoustic neuroma and head inj ury."

• Center for Dizziness and Balance Disorders
  Located in Florida..."This highly-specialized treatment facility was designed to diagnose and treat the full spectrum of dizziness and balance disorders."

• Hearing and Balance Center at Allegheny General Hospital
  Located in Pennsylvania..."At Allegheny General's Hearing and Balance Center, we think the best way to improve hearing and balance is through coordinated care. That means talking to one another and working in teams so that every dimension of a patient's problem can be monitored and effectively treated."

• Mayo Clinic Vestibular Rehabilitation Clinic
  Located in Minnesota..."Vestibular Rehabilitation may offer relief of symptoms for persons suffering from an inner ear disorder. Vestibular Rehabilitation is an exercise program, designed by specially trained therapists, to help a person compensate for a loss or imbalance within the vestibular system."

• Florida Ear & Sinus Center
  Vestibular and Balance Rehabilitation

• Balance Exercises
  Learn some of the techniques of Vestibular Rehabilitation, following these step-by-step balance exercises. From Advanced Otolaryngology Services, P.A., Jacksonville, Florida.

• Vestibular Rehabilitation
  By Anne Shumway-Cook, Ph.D., RPT
  What is vestibular rehabilitation? Which patients need therapy? What happens in the exercise program? And more...

Medications, Surgeries, & Other Treatments

• Ear Surgery Information Center
  by Mark J. Levenson MD, FACS
  A long and detailed page about Meniere's disease, diagnostics, and surgeries. Includes illustrations that sometimes take a while to load.

• Vertigo
  Talks about nutritional and herbal treatment options.

• Herbal Information Center: Ginko Biloba
  Very general info. about this herb and the possibility of its effect on vestibular dysfunction.

• Tinnitus Perception, Habituation and Retraining Therapy: Information for Tinnitus Sufferers
  by Jonathan Hazell F.R.C.S., Head of RNID Medical Research Unit, London, UK

• T'ai Chi For Balance Study
  Sponsoring Institution: Northwestern University, Chicago Illinois. Principal Investigator: Timothy C. Hain, MD
  This was a study conducted on people with balance disorders to see if T'ai Chi would be a helpful treatment. The people who did this study said: "Our aim was to determine if eight weeks of daily practice of an alternative health care exercise, T'ai Chi, can significantly improve balance of persons with "high-level" (mild) balance disorders." Read more about the results of the study at this site!

• Therapy of functional disorders of the craniovertebral joints in vestibular diseases
  Mahlstedt K, Westhofen J, Konig K
  Laryongorhinootologie (Germany)
  1992 May; 71(5): 246-50
  Discussion of chiropractic treatment for vertigo.

• Vitamin and Nutritional Supplements to Help Vertigo
  Information comes from Dr. Victor Bagnall's "NUTRITIONAL THERAPY"