Dr. Chitale ENT Hospital | Vertigo center in Pune

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Causes and Treatment

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Balance, Dizziness and Vertigo

• Introduction
• What is Vertigo?
• Vertigo is used to describe spinning sensation
• Vertigo is a medical condition where a person
  feels as if they or the objects around them are
  moving when they are not. Often it feels like a
  spinning or swaying movement. This may be
  associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, or
  difficulties walking. It is typically worsened
  when the head is moved. Vertigo is the most
  common type of dizziness.
• What is dizziness?
• Dizziness is a general term used to describe a
  feeling when something is wrong with ones sense
  of balance.
• Dizziness is an impairment in spatial perception
  and stability. Because the term dizziness is
  imprecise, it can refer to vertigo, presyncope, di
  sequilibrium or a non-specific feeling such as
  giddiness or foolishness.

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• What are the causes of vertigo?
• Dizziness or vertigo is a very complex symptom
  that can be arising from variety of
  conditions. Some medications can have dizziness
  as a side effect. But in majority of the cases
  vertigo or spinning arises because of problems in
  the inner ear.
• The sensation of being off balance can also be
  due to vision problems or problems in movement
  and position detectors (proprioception) in our
  joints and muscles. In rare cases dizziness can
  also be caused by anxiety, low blood pressure,
  neck spasm, migraine, reduced blood supply to
  balance center in the brain, after head trauma.
• It can also occur in some central neurological
  disorders like parkinsonism, multiple sclerosis
  or after stroke.

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• Treatment for Vertigo
• Treatment for vertigo depends on what's causing
  it. In many cases, vertigo goes away without any
  treatment. This is because your brain is able to
  adapt, at least in part, to the inner ear
  changes, relying on other mechanisms to maintain
  balance.
• Vestibular rehabilitation
• Benign Paroxysmal Positional vertigo is the most
  common
• ii) Vestibular neuronitis, labyrinthitis,
  inactive Menieres disease, post surgical
  ablation
• iii) Ototoxicity, Diabetes, Aging
• iv) Central balance disorders- After/Post, CVA,
  head injury, tumors.

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• Thank You!!
• Dr Chitale ENT Hospital,
• 2003, Sadashiv Peth ,
• Tilak road Pune 411030.
• 020 24476091 / 91 9850840202