Older adults who experience a common form of vertigo are just as likely as younger adults to benefit from a specialized treatment for the condition, a new study finds. Benign paroxysmal positional ...

New recommendations provide guidance to healthcare providers to aid in diagnostic planning and increase implementation of therapeutic positioning maneuvers for patients with benign paroxysmal ...

Feeling dizzy is not only uncomfortable and disconcerting, it can be dangerous if it leads to an accident or fall. The good news is that vertigo, the most common form of dizziness, can most times be ...

But two months ago, when the 50-year-old Phoenix man woke up one Saturday reeling from vertigo, he had no idea what to do. “I felt like I was drunk,” he said. “I couldn’t stand up. I kept falling over ...

For avid gardener Shelby Bearden, it came from out of the blue. "It came on like that," Bearden told Ivanhoe. It's called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), and it can be triggered just by ...

(HealthDay News) — In a clinical practice guideline published in the March issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, updated recommendations are presented for the diagnosis and management of ...

One of the more challenging aspects of working with patients with dizziness issues is trying to gain an understanding of what they are experiencing. “What do you feel when you have a dizzy spell?’’ ...