Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is the most common type of vertigo, especially in the elderly, and is characterized by dizziness at times such as getting out of bed, falling asleep or looking quickly upwards, for example.
In vertigo, the small calcium crystals present inside the inner ear disperse, float and place thee in the wrong place, making the world feel as if it is spinning, causing an imbalance.But using a special maneuver may be enough to definitively cure vertigo, repositioning these crystals in their right place, permanently eliminating vertigo.
- Symptoms are rotary dizziness.
- Which is dizziness and the feeling that everything revolves around you.
- When you perform rapid movements such as:.
The feeling of dizziness is usually quick and lasts less than a minute, but in some cases it can persist for several episodes over weeks or months, disrupting daily life and making daily tasks difficult.
Some people are able to identify how the rotation of the head is able to trigger dizziness, but the diagnosis is made by the family doctor, geriatrician or neurologist when performing maneuvers in the office that cause dizziness, not requiring specific tests.
Treatment should be indicated by your doctor and usually includes physical therapy, where specific maneuvers are performed to reposition calcium crystals inside your inner ear.
The manoeuvre to be performed depends on the side on which the inner ear is touched and the position of the crystals in the anterior, lateral or posterior semicircular channel.80% of the time the crystals are in the posterior semicircular canal, and Epley’s maneuver, which involves extending the head backwards, followed by lateralization and rotation of the head, may be enough to immediately stop the vertigo.Check here the step by step of this maneuver.
The maneuver is performed only once, but sometimes it is necessary to repeat the treatment with the same maneuver 1 week or after 15 days, but performing this maneuver only once has almost a 90% chance of curing this type of vertigo.
Medications are not always necessary, but your doctor may indicate labyrinthine sedatives, and surgery may rarely be indicated, when there is no improvement in symptoms with maneuvers, exercises or medications, but this is risky as it can damage your ear.
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