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Treatment Facilities & Rehab.
- The Dizzy Doc's Blog: Demystifying Dizziness and Vertigo
- Meniett Therapy for Meniere's Disease
- 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"
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