Do you feel dizzy? Now, feeling dizzy is pretty common. In fact you’re likely to experience dizziness at some point during your life. It can make you feel lightheaded, unsteady, or it can feel like the room is spinning around you. Its terrible right?

If you are feeling dizzy call us at FYZICAL Spanish Fork so our qualified physical therapists can create an individualized treatment plan tailored to your needs.

There are a bunch of reasons you may be feeling dizzy. Sometimes dizziness can be caused by dehydration. Other times blood pressure fluctuations can be the culprit. Migraines, anemia, anxiety, and some medications can also make your world spin. Additionally more serious issues, including stroke, heart conditions, brain tumors, or infections can create symptoms of dizziness. Most of the time however, dizziness is due to a problem with your vestibular system. That just means somethings not quite right with part of your inner ear. At FYZICAL Spanish Fork, we can help restore the optimal functioning of your vestibular system with our comprehensive vestibular rehabilitation program.

Ok, what does it feel like to be dizzy? Well the most common symptom of dizziness is vertigo. Vertigo is a false sense of moving or spinning. Other symptoms of dizziness include a feeling of imbalance or unsteadiness on your feet. You can also feel lightheaded or woozy. All of this can lead you having difficulty standing or walking. Additionally dizziness can lead to nausea, vomiting, and vision, hearing, or speech changes. Yeah, not fun at all.

Now if your dizziness is accompanied by chest pain, irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath, face or extremity numbness or weakness, slurred speech, and confusion - these are signs of something serious. If you are experiencing these symptoms, please seek medical attention immediately.

If your dizziness is not due to something serious that needs immediate medical intervention that is where we come in at FYZICAL Spanish Fork. When you come in to see our skilled physical therapists they will evaluate and diagnose the underlying cause of your dizziness. Then they will create an individualized treatment plan that is tailored to your needs and goals to help manage your symptoms symptoms of dizziness, vertigo, and imbalance.

This plan will include vestibular rehabilitation which is a type of physical therapy that can help treat vestibular disorders that may be the real underlying cause of your dizziness. Vestibular rehabilitation aims to relieve symptoms of dizziness by training your brain to adapt to the dysfunction of your vestibular system. 

Here’s how we do it. At FYZICAL Spanish Fork we use a vestibular rehabilitation treatment plan that utilizes individualized exercises to address your specific needs and goals. We use a combination of exercises, including adaptation exercises - which gets you used to certain stimuli that used to cause you trouble. We also use gaze stabilization exercises which helps your eyes become more steady, as they become more steady your feelings of dizziness' diminish. Our skilled physical therapists also use target shooting exercises and habituation exercises to help you adapt. Other critical parts of our treatment include balance and gait retraining exercises that are done within the safety of our harness system. We also use strengthening exercises to help relieve your dizziness and get you back to doing what you love. All of this helps to reduce your risk of falling and improves your quality of life, and get you back to doing what you love.

If you or a loved one are experiencing dizziness, contact us today to learn more about our vestibular rehabilitation program.