{"id":7866,"date":"2022-10-24T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ent.gr\/?p=7866"},"modified":"2022-10-24T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:29:40","slug":"dizzy-spell-vertigo-balance-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/dizzy-spell-vertigo-balance-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertigo, Dizzy spell, Balance Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/dizzy-spell-vertigo-balance-disorders\/#Who_do_balance_disorders_concern\" >Who do balance disorders concern?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/dizzy-spell-vertigo-balance-disorders\/#Treating_Dizziness_and_Vertigo\" >Treating Dizziness and Vertigo<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_do_balance_disorders_concern\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;\">Who do balance disorders concern?<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;\">EYiasis Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/vertigo-dizziness\/vertigo-dizziness-what-could-be-the-problem\/\">Vertigo and Balance Disorders<\/a> addresses all patients, regardless of age, who suffer from dizziness, vertigo and unsteadiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;\">It can affect all age groups from young children to the elderly. Thus, the aim of EYiasis center is to identify, with a thorough and comprehensive evaluation of each patient, in order to locate the underlying disease and ultimately propose the most appropriate therapeutic intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Treating_Dizziness_and_Vertigo\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Treating Dizziness and Vertigo<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;\">Treatment is always individualized, due to the specificity of patients who complain of dizziness, and balance disorders in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;\">Disequilibrium is caused by a disturbance in the harmonious functioning of the balance system of our body.\u00a0Rehabilitation exercises are an important part of treatment in various vertigo disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica;\">A patient should not do repositioning therapeutic exercise on their own as it may result in a\u00a0<span class=\"ej-keyword\" data-value=\"Canalith jam\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30106853\/\">Canalith jam<\/a>. This condition\u00a0<\/span>refers to an otolithic clump blocked inside a semicircular canal, generally provoked by\u00a0<span class=\"ej-keyword\" data-value=\"canalith repositioning procedure\">canalith repositioning procedure<\/span>. This will result in worsening of symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;\">We design customised rehab programmes to help overcome the deficiencies and strengthen the<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7860\" style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7860\" class=\"wp-image-7860 size-medium\" title=\"Balance Disorders.ent\" src=\"https:\/\/ent.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/%CE%B6%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B7-119x300.jpg\" alt=\"Balance Disorders.ent\" width=\"119\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balance Disorders<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;\">balance system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">References<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">Comacchio, Francesco\u2217; Poletto, Elisabetta\u2020; Mion, Marta\u2021. Spontaneous Canalith Jam and Apogeotropic Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo: Considerations on a Particular Case Mimicking an Acute Vestibular Deficit. Otology &amp; Neurotology 39(9):p e843-e848, October 2018.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\"><span class=\"author\">Bhattacharyya N<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Gubbels SP<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Schwartz SR<\/span>, et al.\u00a0<span class=\"articleTitle\">Clinical practice guideline: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (update)<\/span>.\u00a0Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg.\u00a0<span class=\"pubYear\">2017<\/span>;\u00a0<span class=\"vol\">156<\/span>(<span class=\"citedIssue\">3_suppl<\/span>):\u00a0<span class=\"pageFirst\">S1<\/span>&#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"pageLast\">S47<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\"><span class=\"author\">Califano L<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Vassallo A<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Melillo MG<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Mazzone S<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Salafia F<\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"articleTitle\">Direction-fixed paroxysmal nystagmus lateral canal benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo (BPPV): another form of lateral canalolithiasis<\/span>.\u00a0Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital.\u00a0<span class=\"pubYear\">2013<\/span>;\u00a0<span class=\"vol\">33<\/span>(<span class=\"citedIssue\">4<\/span>):\u00a0<span class=\"pageFirst\">254<\/span>&#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"pageLast\">260<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row pix_padding_top=&#8221;pix-top-no-padding&#8221; pix_padding_bottom=&#8221;pix-bottom-no-padding&#8221; gradient_colors=&#8221;%5B%7B%7D%5D&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Contact us&#8221; color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-phone&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:%2Fen%2Fcontacts||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Book an appointment&#8221; color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-calendar&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:%2Fen%2Fappointment||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Get directions&#8221; color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-map-marker&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fmaps%2Fdir%2F%2FEyiasis%2BENT%2BAcupuncture%2C%2BGeor.%2BDrosini%2B16%2C%2BKifisia%2B145%2B62%2F%4038.0718225%2C23.8122364%2C15z%2Fdata%3D!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x14a19edf40479729%3A0xa4593bd0e0aed04b!2m2!1d23.8122364!2d38.0718225||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EYiasis Department of Vertigo and Balance Disorders addresses all patients, regardless of age, who suffer from dizziness, vertigo and unsteadiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neuro-otology-dizziness","category-vertigo-dizziness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}