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Understand the dizziness before choosing the exercise.
Turning in bed, looking around a shop or walking outside can feel difficult when your balance is unsettled. We listen to the pattern of your symptoms and assess whether vestibular rehabilitation is appropriate or medical review is needed first.
Understanding your needs
The vestibular system helps your brain understand head movement and balance. Dizziness can also arise from other conditions, so treatment is never based on the word ‘vertigo’ alone.
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo can cause brief spinning with particular head movements, such as turning in bed.
Our focusUse suitable positional assessment. A repositioning manoeuvre may be appropriate when findings support BPPV; it is not a treatment for all dizziness.
Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness can involve ongoing non-spinning dizziness or unsteadiness, often worse when upright, moving or in visually busy places.
Our focusConsider gradual, individually paced movement and balance practice alongside appropriate medical and psychological support.
Some people remain unsteady or sensitive to movement after an inner-ear or vestibular problem.
Our focusAssess which eye, head, balance or walking activities are suitable and how to progress them.
The term cervicogenic dizziness is sometimes used when neck symptoms and dizziness occur together. Their coexistence does not establish the cause.
Our focusAssess carefully and consider other explanations before attributing dizziness to the neck. Avoid self-directed neck manipulation.
Turning, uneven ground or moving in busy surroundings may feel less secure.
Our focusPractise useful tasks with suitable support and discuss ways to reduce fall risk.
Migraine, hearing changes, medicine effects, circulation or neurological problems can also cause dizziness.
Our focusRefer for medical or specialist assessment when the history or examination suggests rehabilitation alone is not appropriate.
Your assessment and care
Tell us whether symptoms are spinning, light-headedness or unsteadiness, how long they last and what brings them on.
Review onset, hearing or vision changes, headaches, falls, medicines and existing diagnoses. Some patterns require urgent medical assessment.
Assessment may include eye and head movements, walking, balance and positional testing. Tests are explained first and adapted for neck, back or mobility restrictions.
Where indicated, select gaze, balance or movement exercises, or a repositioning manoeuvre for confirmed positional vertigo. Explain expected sensations and when to stop.
Adjust practice according to symptoms, confidence and daily activities. Persistent or changing symptoms may require further investigation.
Do not copy a repositioning manoeuvre or dizziness routine without assessment. Arrange assistance for travel if you feel unsafe; do not drive while dizzy.
Care that listens
Led by Dr. N. T. Srilatha Gubenthiran, our team brings more than 23 years of senior clinical experience to personalised rehabilitation.
BPT · MIAP · MSc Psychology
We explain the assessment, listen to your preferences and agree a plan together. Your comfort and questions matter throughout care.
Meet our physiotherapy teamBefore your visit
No. Repositioning manoeuvres are used for particular forms of BPPV after appropriate assessment. Other causes of dizziness need a different approach, and neck or other health problems may change which tests or treatments are safe.
No. PPPD is a recognised persistent dizziness condition. Symptoms are real, and anxiety may coexist or make them harder to manage. Care can combine rehabilitation, education and other treatment recommended by your medical team.
Some prescribed activities may briefly provoke familiar symptoms, but the amount should be planned and tolerable. New, severe or prolonged symptoms are not something to push through; stop and seek advice.
Neck symptoms and dizziness can have different or overlapping causes. Assessment and sometimes specialist review are needed before choosing care. A neck diagnosis or treatment should not replace investigation of concerning symptoms.
Bring relevant ENT or neurological reports and a medicine list. Note what triggers symptoms and how long episodes last. Arrange someone to accompany you if balance or travel is difficult.
Sri Physiotherapy Clinic · Kumbakonam
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General patient information. An individual assessment and your treating medical team guide appropriate care; outcomes vary.
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