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As many as 76 million Americans will experience dizziness, vertigo or loss of balance at some time during their lives. Poor balance and a fear of falling can keep patients from being active, resulting in a wide range of health concerns.

The Vestibular system is a part of the inner ear that helps control balance, your sense of position, and the ability to focus while moving your head. If the function of the inner ear is altered due to injury or other dysfunction, it can affect your ability to balance, walk, and focus.

What is vestibular therapy?

Our therapists will evaluate each patient, including functional and positional testing, to develop an individualized treatment plan, which may include:

  • Canalith Repositioning Maneuvers – A treatment for BPPV, in which the therapist moves the calcium carbonate crystals out of the semicircular canals to relieve vertigo symptoms.
  • Balance retraining and postural control strategies – helps the patient restore balance, position sense, and function.
  • Gaze Stabilization Exercises – Helps retrain stable vision during head movement.
  • Habituation Exercises – Helps decrease dizziness and motion sensitivity by challenging the system.

 

What conditions will benefit from vestibular rehabilitation?

  • Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) – caused by calcium crystals floating in the inner ear.
  • Cervicogenic Dizziness – dizziness or vertigo due to neck postures or disorders.
  • Vestibular Hypofunction – caused by a vestibular weakness.
  • Labyrinthitis – inflammation of the inner ear.
  • Meniere’s Disease – over accumulation of fluid in the inner ear that causes attacks of vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss.
  • Drug–Induced Ototoxicity – damage to the inner ear due to drug side effects.
  • Migrainous Vertigo – symptoms associated with migraine headaches.
The Vestibular system is a part of the inner ear that helps control balance, your sense of position, and the ability to focus while moving your head. If the function of the inner ear is altered due to injury or other dysfunction, it can affect your ability to balance, walk, and focus.
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Kitsap Physical Therapy & Sports Clinics

Our main focus as a business is to play a valuable role in helping the people living in our communities to overcome the physical limitations (and sometimes mental) restrictions that interfere with their ability to fully participate in their “activities of daily living”.

Being able to perform work duties without risk of injury or to recover from an injury and return to work are important activities for everyone to be able to do. We have physical therapists that provide valuable programs for both employees and employers. For many people, their sports and recreational activities are an important part of their identity and their ability to enjoy their life. We have programs that can be individualized to meet everyone’s individual situation.

So, too, we understand that everyone’s life presents many physical challenges and sometimes people need some help overcoming at these situations. Even more fundamental, there is increasing research evidence about how important staying physically fit is to our overall health in reducing our risk of other health related problems such as cardiac function, lung function, circulatory problems, diabetes, kidney, and even mental alertness.