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Recovering from vestibular injury: Visual tricks

In our last post, we discussed the process of compensation to vestibular injury, and how important vision is to the process. There are visual tricks you can use to help finish the process of compensation, and we’ll review these here.

Recovering from vestibular injury: vision

You might have permanent and even severe damage to one of your inner ears, yet still get back to feeling normal with good balance. This ability to recover is called compensation. Being able to do this well is easier for humans than for some other animals. For example, rabbits can’t do it well at all.Continue reading “Recovering from vestibular injury: vision”

BPPV: The 15 minute Wait

After doing the half somersault, the Epley maneuver, or any of the other maneuvers for BPPV on yourself, I recommend that you wait 15 minutes before doing another maneuver. Providers generally don’t wait long between maneuvers, so why should you do this, and what do you do while you’re waiting?