Dizziness Not Always Child's Play
Dizziness Not Always Child's Play
Stop the Spinning
This may be trickier than it seems.
"Patients want us to fix their problem either by giving medicine or by cutting something out," says otolaryngologist Prass.
"Chronic imbalance can be fixed with balance therapy, but if a person is uptight it is not going to work," he says. "For example, if you always associate symptoms with going to the grocery store, we can treat the person's disease, but if you still tighten up when you approach the store, it can be a real roadblock to recovery."
In such cases, says Prass, stress management and relaxation therapy may help.
Balance therapy uses sophisticated devices to make a person relearn their sense of balance. Samuels notes that there is no evidence that the difficult-to-tolerate treatment has any long-lasting benefit. But Prass says that it can help some patients who tend to get dizzy on specific, predictable occasions.
Dizziness Not Always Child's Play
Stop the Spinning
Long-Lasting, Chronic Dizziness continued...
This may be trickier than it seems.
"Patients want us to fix their problem either by giving medicine or by cutting something out," says otolaryngologist Prass.
"Chronic imbalance can be fixed with balance therapy, but if a person is uptight it is not going to work," he says. "For example, if you always associate symptoms with going to the grocery store, we can treat the person's disease, but if you still tighten up when you approach the store, it can be a real roadblock to recovery."
In such cases, says Prass, stress management and relaxation therapy may help.
Balance therapy uses sophisticated devices to make a person relearn their sense of balance. Samuels notes that there is no evidence that the difficult-to-tolerate treatment has any long-lasting benefit. But Prass says that it can help some patients who tend to get dizzy on specific, predictable occasions.
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