A Word About Vestibular Rehabilitation

There is no question that vestibular rehabilitationapproaches, especially pertaining to vestibular
therapy is the best way to manage most causesrehabilitation therapy, are destined to fail.
of vertigo, dizziness and imbalance. The downsideTreatment protocols must be specifically designed
is that there are very few trained specialists infor the patient being managed. If this is not the
this field competent in diagnosing these disorderscase, some patients will improve, some will stay
and formulating appropriate treatment applications.the same, and some will worsen.
This field is mostly the domain of the chiropracticYou can look at an analogy of physical fitness. If
neurologist, and there remain very few doctorsyou want to get into shape and hire a trainer, if
sub-specialized in this field, especially in NJ. Further,the trainer says on day one, ok, were going to
just because a therapist of sorts offers vestibularstart with bench pressing 200 lbs., you can see
rehabilitation therapy, it does not mean that it willhow that will end up for someone who cannot
be done correctly.physically do that. The same thing happens when
My office sees a myriad of individuals with theseyou exceed someone's functional capacity with
conditions. Several have somehow managed torehabilitation. For more information and to
find a therapist who performs some variation ofdetermine if you are a candidate for vestibular
vestibular rehabilitation therapy. All have failedrehabilitation therapy, (VRT), log onto my website
because the therapy provided was a "canned"listed below and follow the links to the online
approach, and was not formulated specific to theconsultation form for vertigo and dizziness
patient being treated. I find that canned treatmentdisorders.