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.
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Blink Turns: An exercise to tame blurred vision
When an inner ear suddenly stops working, the first sign is seeing the room spin. There’s another sign that is also very annoying and unsettling—the world can appear to shift in a blur when turning your head quickly. Usually this just happens when you turn toward the bad ear. If both ears are not working,Continue reading “Blink Turns: An exercise to tame blurred vision”
Sudden inner ear damage
Sudden damage to one inner ear causes severe dizziness and can also cause imbalance and difficulty with focusing the eyes. Unilateral vestibulopathy is the technical name for this problem; unilateral indicates that the process affects one ear, and vestibulopathy is a general term referring to disease of the vestibular system. The process is acute, meaningContinue reading “Sudden inner ear damage”
