How to Get rid of
Vertigo
Vertigo affects approximately 20-30% of adults at some point in their lives. Identifying the specific type of vertigo is most important in proper treatment. Coordination and balance rehabilitation improves your ability to execute smooth, accurate, and controlled motor responses following treatment of vertigo.
Family Chiropractic and Sports Rehab offers vertigo treatment for patients who wish to improve their ability to balance. Our process helps you enhance your motor skills and participate in your favorite activities.
To find out more about our services or schedule balance treatment, contact us today at (239) 990-7068. We’re here to help!
The common types of vertigo include
1. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV): Caused by small calcium crystals in the inner ear becoming dislodged and affecting balance. This is the most common cause.
2. Vestibular Neuritis: Inflammation of the vestibular nerve, often viral in origin, leading to sudden onset of vertigo.
3. Meniere's Disease: Characterized by vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), and a feeling of fullness in the affected ear.
4. Labyrinthitis: Inflammation of the inner ear, typically due to infection, leading to vertigo, hearing loss, and imbalance.
5. Vestibular Migraine: A type of migraine headache that includes episodes of vertigo or dizziness.
Neuromuscular Therapy: Teaching Your Body to Function Again
Once your specific type of vertigo has been properly identified, your chiropractic specialist will help develop proper coordination and balance. This occurs when the mind, muscles, and nerves transmit signals to each other to stimulate bodily movement. Through neuromuscular therapy, we can help you re-educate or retrain your body to function correctly and return to normal.
The neuromuscular therapy process involves coordination drills, balance activities, muscle training, and posturing. Repetitive movements reinforce nerve signals to re-establish the normal communication patterns between mind and muscles.
There are several benefits to neuromuscular therapy including:
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Neuromuscular re-education helps you regain use of muscles that have previously lost the function.
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Therapy involves teaching the muscle how to remember its role. We can help you break down muscle movement into simple components that help you develop muscle use one step at a time.
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Ongoing training and development will help you re-integrate muscle use into coordinated movement.
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Motor control and balance training allows you to regain muscle strength and function.
Coordination and Posture Therapy
As you progress through the stages of rehabilitation, you can take on take on three to five more challenging exercises that address coordination issues and promote vascularity. At first, these exercises may be slightly painful due to injuries and atrophy. Therefore, you will perform the exercises at a slow speed and with a pain-free range of motion. Eventually, you will notice less pain and improved coordination. You may also be able to increase your repetitions per exercise or increase your range of exercises and range of motion.
In the final stages of therapy, you may demonstrate full motion and pain-free weight bearing. Reaching the final stages of therapy may lead to a bit more pain and expose deficits in coordination. The pain will subside, however, as your coordination reaches its full potential.
You are on your way to recovery!
Stability and Balance Therapy
Balance and stability issues stem from muscle weakness, joint stiffness, injuries, and lack of motion. Balance may also be affected by arthritis, spinal cord injuries, and debilitating muscle conditions.
You can improve balance and stability with exercise and physical therapy. Stability and balance therapy focuses on improving visual input, sensory-detected movement, and joint and muscle coordination. We develop individualized physical activity to enhance your strength, stability, and mobility as you overcome your balance problems.
Exercises we may employ to help you regain balance include:
Single-leg stance
Tandem walking in a heel-to-toe pattern
Walking with various head motions
Altering your visual stimuli during movements such as walking or bending
Using different types of objects or equipment
The key to improving your balance is to engage in various scenarios that challenge your balance. All exercises are designed to help your body's systems adapt and change. You’ll improve your balance and muscular control.
We will assist you in performing balance exercises that are safe and applicable to your condition.
Chiropractic Care for Vertigo in Ave Maria, Florida
Family Chiropractic and Sports Rehab has built a reputation in Ave Maria, Florida as a caring, family-oriented, and innovative chiropractic clinic with over 20 years of combined experience. Our entire staff offers a variety of chiropractic, myofascial therapy, and therapeutic exercises that can improve your condition.
To schedule a consultation or treatment for your vertigo, call us at (239) 990-7068, or you can message us at info@chiropracticswfl.com.
