Helping Los Angeles with Their Dizziness and Balance Challenges
Until you have experienced dizziness or vertigo, you never realize how debilitating and confidence-shattering it can be.
Whether you’re lying in bed and have a sudden sensation of the room spinning or you are finding yourself falling or losing your balance randomly, it’s an occurrence that can result in you wanting to isolate and spend less time socializing or outside of your places of comfort.
The most common reason for this is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV), which is a common form of balance disturbance that originates in the inner ear.
With a team of advanced doctors of audiology, we have a leading track record for helping patients with these specifc health challenges and helping them to get back to their normal selves.
With many physicians throughout Los Angeles referring balance and dizziness challenges to us, we’re able to help or guide you with any challenges that you may be facing.
What Do Our Ears Do to Balance Us?
Inside your inner ear are three complex components used in transmitting sound to your brain: semicircular canals, the otolithic organs, and the cochlea. The semicircular canals look like three circular loops. Each is responsible for sensing movement in a different direction or different type in order to signal imbalance to your brain.
As the fluid within these tubes move, the hair cells sense the movement, much like the bubble in a carpenter’s level or plumb. When your brain receives the signals from these hair cells, it signals your body to make the proper adjustments.
Common Symptoms and Causes of Balance Issues
When you are not moving, navigating uneven terrain, or even standing up, you can still experience symptoms of imbalance, dizziness, vertigo, and/or nausea.
These symptoms are common for those with damage or deterioration of structures in the inner ear, causing motion sickness, making sitting or standing complicated, and sometimes producing severe vertigo even when lying down.
These symptoms often relate to various other health conditions, like:
Labyrinthitis or Vestibular Neuronitis
An inner ear infection with inflammation in the labyrinth structure of the inner ear, which can produce tinnitus and hearing loss. It is similar to vestibular neuronitis, but hearing loss is not a symptom of vestibular neuronitis.
Meniere’s disease
Perilymph Fistula
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS)
