The Dix-Hallpike maneuver remains the gold standard for diagnosing posterior canal BPPV. A positive test requires that vertigo associated with torsional (rotatory) and up-beating (toward the forehead) ...

Many times, people use dizziness and vertigo interchangeably, but there is a difference. While they are both balance problems, dizziness is an overall feeling of being unbalanced. With vertigo, there ...

The emotional, functional and physical effects of vertigo on patients with vestibular migraine were shown to be more significant compared with the experiences of patients with benign paroxysmal ...

We’ve all experienced dizziness after riding a rollercoaster or spinning around in circles with the grandkids. That off-balance feeling can be fun in small doses, but if it occurs randomly, it may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After 50, your likelihood of developing a condition called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) increases. This condition ...

If you’ve ever suffered from an episode of vertigo, then you know how debilitating and scary it can be: Room spinning, loss of balance, barely able to walk or move... The traditional route of ...

What caused acute vertigo in two healthy women? That's the diagnostic challenge described by David Elisha, BS, of Tel Aviv University School of Medicine in Israel, and Ronen Nazarian, MD, of ...

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 ...

Moderately strong evidence suggested antihistamines provide greater acute vertigo relief than benzodiazepines, a meta-analysis showed. Single-dose antihistamines led to a 16.1-point (95% CI 7.2-25.0) ...

Kim, 68 years old, who lives in Gangdong-gu, Seoul, was startled when he tried to get out of bed at 5 a.m. to go to the ...

Vertigo is a condition that many people are familiar with, but not everyone understands its complexities or underlying causes. If you’ve ever felt like you or your surroundings were spinning ...