Vertigo

If you are experiencing dizziness, you just want relief! You want to put an end to the room spinning and feelings of nausea. If you are like most people we meet, you’d do just about anything to find a remedy. Ideally, though, you’d like to do it WITHOUT spending money on expensive tests or spending time at multiple doctor appointments without finding a solution.

If you’re suffering with dizziness or balance issues, it may be associated with vertigo. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that it will settle down and magically disappear on its own. You may find yourself thinking, “I can get through this,” or “Tomorrow will be better”. Worse yet, you may be thinking that this is something that you just have to live with.

You can’t seem to find a reason why this spinning, dizziness, or nausea is happening. You only know that it IT IS REAL and it is not going away. If this sounds familiar, know this: YOU ARE NOT ALONE. We hear about these problems all the time! In fact, we see and help people with dizziness/vertigo all the time at our Carlisle, Harrisburg, and Mechanicsburg clinics.

When it comes to dealing with the issue of dizziness/vertigo, everyone wants to know:

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Many people are not sure of what they are suffering with and why. All they know is that moving their head or changing positions causes them to feel dizzy and nauseous. It can affect virtually every aspect of your life; even simple tasks become complicated.

You bend over to put on your slippers in the morning and when you sit back up, you are hit with a whoosh of dizziness that causes you to fall back onto your bed. The room is spinning, and you feel like you might vomit if you even move a muscle. After a few moments, everything settles. You slowly sit up on the edge of your bed, and the dizziness returns. It eventually passes, but every transition results in varying degrees of dizziness, and you spend your day walking on eggshells, awaiting the next “Big event”.

It is easy to see how people can get overwhelmed and confused with all the information that is out there about dizziness. A Google search on vertigo will yield you thousands of results with a variety of instructions on the “Best way” to deal with room spinning, nausea and dizziness. While the information makes it clear that this is a problem that a number of people suffer from, it remains unclear as to how to deal with YOUR dizziness problem. Frustration can build when you just don’t know WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON!

After a few days of pining for relief, you end up at your Primary Care Physician. They run through some tests to rule out “Bigger issues”. Thankfully, they tell you that your brain looks good! They write you a prescription for some medication and tell you to follow up with them in a few weeks if you are still feeling dizzy. A FEW WEEKS!? You try it, and a few miserable weeks later, you are back at the doctor’s office feeling equally miserable and doubly frustrated. The doctor is truly empathetic, and a little frustrated that the medication didn’t work. She mentions that she met a Physical Therapist recently who treated clients with vertigo, so she sends you for a Physical Therapy consultation.

Doctors often send patients with vertigo to Physical Therapy because clients simply don’t know where to go first! Many dizziness cases that come on suddenly are the result of “Mechanical” issues in the vestibular system (something is a little off and can be fixed). Physical Therapists are experts in fixing mechanical issues. Going directly to your Physical Therapist can help save time and speed up your recovery.

Here at Cardin & Miller Physical Therapy, we regularly treat people suffering from vestibular disorders resulting in vertigo symptoms! By running through repositioning techniques, vision exercises, & balance and gait drills, we get to the root of the issue and help people GET BACK ON THEIR FEET! *We will perform a vestibular evaluation to identify if you are a candidate for mechanical treatment (that often provides rapid relief). Doing this first is a great way to rule out mechanical problems before sending you for expensive testing or taking complicated medication. Our findings are often extremely helpful if we need to refer you on to a different medical provider for additional tests.*

Our One-on-One Free Screen is something that is offered to people who are skeptical or uncertain about Physical Therapy. If that sounds like you, come on in for your Free Screen with one of our expert Physical Therapists to find out what's wrong and what can be done… without any risk or cost on your part!

Here are just a couple of things that we can do for you:

Basically, we can get you back to living your life to the fullest without the fear of vertigo symptoms robbing you of days on end because you can’t even sit up, let alone play with your children or grandchildren.