Vestibular Rehabilitation
Bringing Balance Back
Vestibular rehabilitation is used to treat disorders or symptoms, characterized by dizziness, vertigo, and trouble with balance, posture, and vision.
What is vestibular rehabilitation?
Vestibular rehabilitation is a program that was designed by specifically trained physical therapists and is an exercise-based program. It improves balance and reduces problems related to dizziness.
Vestibular Rehabilitation Helps With:
- Dizziness or blurry vision with head movements
- Neck tightness, stiffness and/or pain
- Imbalance or the need to hold onto objects when walking
- Headaches
- Frequent falls
- Generalized “dizziness, wooziness and foggy head” feelings
- Vertigo/spinning
Frequently Asked Questions
One of our certified health practitioners will evaluate your symptoms and review medical history. You can expect all or some of the following:
- Balance and/or leg strength/flexibility
- Gait (how you walk)
- Visual stability and mobility
- Neck mobility and neck and arm strength
- Positional testing, including an inner ear exam
A treatment plan will be put together to address all identified issues. The goal is to make you feel more confident in everyday life and reduce the risk of a fall.
In most cases, vestibular rehabilitation therapy will be all that is needed to address the issues at hand. However sometimes it is a part of the presurgery/postsurgery treatment plan, and other treatment may be required.
Continuing to perform the exercises will ensure that the balance and dizziness problems decrease significantly or completely disappear.
You might learn:
- Vision stability training
- Balance retraining
- Posture training
- Stretching and strengthening exercises
- General fitness exercises
- Walking exercises
- Neck mobility/stretching exercises
- Ergonomic training
Session frequency and duration varies with diagnosis and symptom severity. Typically, patients are seen 1 to 2 times each week for 6 to 8 weeks.
Private and Motor Vehicle Insurers, commercial policies, as well as, Workers Compensation, usually cover the cost of chiropractic care as appropriate. We can help you with all insurance questions. Give us a call today!
We Use Telus Health eClaims
Telus eClaims is a web-based system that allows our clinic to submit our clients’ claims online, bypassing traditional mail-in system and vastly accelerating service. It’s secure and allows direct reimbursement and immediate confirmation of the insurance company’s response when offered by the insurer.
