The Dizziness and Vertigo Clinic of Liv Hospital studies the reasons leading to dizziness and imbalance. It offers the respective personalized solutions.
Dizziness is a symptom, not a disease. The word ‘dizzy’ encompasses multiple descriptions of symptoms - confusion, a sensation of floating, staggering, unsteadiness, soaring, impaired balance, tilting, spinning, or vertigo.
Causes of vertigo are as varied as their clinical descriptions and can involve different structures from the inner ear to the brain. The feeling of dizziness or vertigo may be caused by infection or disease in the inner ear. For example, one possible cause is labyrinthitis, which is inflammation of the inner ear. Meniere's disease and benign positional vertigo are other inner ear problems that can cause dizziness.
Neurological causes of vertigo include multiple sclerosis, heart attack, migraine and rarely, tumours. Dizziness can be caused by exhaustion, stress, fever, low blood sugar, anaemia, head injury, and heart and circulation problems. It can also be caused by certain medications. Some psychological problems can cause dizziness. Examples of such problems are depression, agoraphobia (fear of open spaces). And hyperventilation (rapid, shallow breathing that can occur when you feel anxious).
Dizziness Clinic of LIV HOSPITAL
The Dizziness Clinic of LIV HOSPITAL assesses patients with all types of complaints from dizziness. Usually, dizziness is expressed in the feeling of spatial disorientation. Common types of dizziness include vertigo, staggering, and impaired balance. In the clinic, particular attention is paid to disorders of the nervous system, including the vestibular apparatus. Disorders commonly diagnosed in this clinic include: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, vestibular neuritis (labyrinthitis), Meniere's disease, cerebellar ataxia syndromes, cardiovascular disease, chronic vertigo, and migraine-related vertigo.
The LIV HOSPITAL Dizziness Centre offers a wide range of treatment options for the underlying causes of dizziness. Treatment for dizziness can range from a simple change in your medications to a different medical, surgical and rehabilitative approach. The Dizziness Clinic offers a detailed clinical assessment, electronystagmography, videonystagmography and MRI scans, vestibular rehabilitation, balance assessment and training programs.
Conservative treatment using vestibular rehabilitation works by re-training the brain to adapt and reorganize the conflicting signals it receives regarding balance and body movement. The treatment of balance disorder is based on correctly determining the origin of the disorder. Some patients need both vestibular rehabilitation and balance retraining, while others need only one form of therapy.
No matter the case, our international patients are guaranteed the most up-to-date diagnostic and treatment options, in a comfortable environment and within the multidisciplinary system that is the trademark of LIV HOSPITAL.