Balance and Vertigo Therapy

If it feels like your surroundings are moving or you become wobbly, it may be a sign of vertigo. The good news? Studies show that up to 90% of people with balance disorders benefit from balance retraining.

At Corewell Health, we offer a special type of training known as Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) that uses exercises to decrease dizziness and improve your balance. Connect with our specialists who can evaluate, diagnose, and help you get your bearings back.

Supporting you each step of the way, our care team will monitor your progress and adapt your rehabilitation treatment as needed. Using advanced diagnostic tools, we deliver data-driven programs customized for you. Working together, the goal is to help get everyday activities back to normal.

Some of the most common causes of vertigo include:

• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV): Vertigo caused by crystals out of place in inner ear balance system.
• Meniere’s disease: Vertigo, tinnitus (ringing in ears), and hearing loss due to intermittent swelling in the inner ear.
• Vestibular neuritis or labyrinthitis: Dizziness and/or hearing loss due to infection in the inner ear.
• Acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma): A tumor affecting the acoustic (hearing) and vestibular nerves.
• Labyrinthine infarction: Dizziness and hearing loss due to a clot blocking blood flow to inner ear structures.

Though you might not want to move when you’re feeling dizzy, doing so can help to retrain your brain and decrease your symptoms. In as few as three visits our specially trained physical therapists can help you get rid of your dizziness and back to enjoying life. Your therapist will work closely with you to teach you exercises and movements to build back balance.

Our therapists are highly trained and state of the art tools available to them to assist you in your recovery. They may use Frenzel goggles which are extremely useful in evaluation of patients with vestibular disorders. Frenzel goggles consist of a combination of magnifying glasses and a lighting system. When Frenzel goggles are used, your therapist can quickly and accurately determine what movements trigger your symptoms and the severity of your symptoms. Your therapist will use a variety of manual techniques, home exercises and tools such as the Bioness Integrated Therapy System (BITS) to get you back to doing what you love.