Vertigo is a symptom, rather than a condition itself. It is a sensation that you, or the environment around you, is moving or spinning. It makes difficult to keep you balanced and interferes everyday tasks. This condition can develop suddenly and last for a few moments/seconds or may last much longer.
What causes vertigo?
Vertigo is caused by the inner ear problems, and due to brain problems.
Causes of vertigo may include:
Depending on the condition causing vertigo, you may experience additional symptoms, such as a high temperature, ringing in your ears (tinnitus) and hearing loss.
How is vertigo treated?
Some cases of vertigo improve over time, without treatment. However, some people have repeated episodes for many months, or even years, such as those with Ménière’s disease.
There are specific treatments for some causes of vertigo. A series of simple head movements (known as the Epley manoeuvre) is used to treat BPPV.
Many people with vertigo also benefit from vestibular rehabilitation training (VRT), which is a series of exercises for people with dizziness and balance problems.
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Usually it takes 1-2 hours for surgery to get complete.Patient can be discharged after 6 hour after surgery.It’s daycare surgery.But if you get admitted under Insurance cashless scheme,yo may need to monitored for overnight and will be get discharged after next day.
Audiometry tests identifies unnoticed single sided hearingloss which can be due brain tumour.Most of the inner ear problem usually associated with hearing loss and pattern of hearing loss gives clues regarding causes of vertigo like low frequency hearing loss is common in certain conditions like Ménière’s disease.
If strictly speaking it’s not much necessary for diagnosis for vertigo.But it is essential in some cases to exclude more serious conditions like brain tumor, brain stroke.
This test is carried out in outpatient procedure,admission is not necessary.Video camera attached to customised goggles which captures eye movement and computer calculates the velocity of eye movement in very precise manner plotted over graph ,can be analyzed.Abnormalities in eye movements are studied and gives information regarding underlying pathophysiological mechanisms leading to vertigo.