What We Treat

Dizziness & Vertigo treatment in University Heights.

The room moves when you roll over in bed. You hold the rail now. You let someone else drive. Dizziness has a cause, and a cause-first evaluation is how you find out which one it is.

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Sound Familiar?

Does this sound like you?

  • The room tilts when you roll over in bed, and you lie still until it stops
  • One hand on the stair rail every time now, going up and coming down
  • You stopped driving yourself anywhere, in case it hits at a light
  • You turn your whole body instead of your head, because turning sets it off
  • Weeks off the boat and your body still thinks it is rocking
  • A fog that has not lifted since the concussion, and busy aisles make it worse

Two or more? Keep reading.

Why It Happens

Dizziness is a signal. Something is sending it.

Your balance runs on three inputs: your inner ear, your eyes, and the sense of position coming up from your feet and joints. When all three agree, you never think about it. When one of them starts reporting something the other two do not, your brain calls it dizziness.

Which input is off changes everything about the fix. In BPPV, loose crystals drift into a canal of the inner ear, so rolling over or looking up briefly spins the room. In vestibular neuritis, one ear goes quiet after a virus and the sides stop matching. In MdDS, the brain holds onto a rocking motion long after the boat or the flight. After a concussion, the eyes and the inner ear fall out of step. And in older adults, the signal from the feet fades slowly, so the unsteadiness creeps in without a starting date.

You cannot sort those out by how bad it feels. It takes testing: your eyes, your head movement, your positions, your walking. Dr. Joseph Moskowitz earned his Certificate of Vestibular Competency in 2003 while working at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and it is the specialty he brings to cases like this. Find which system is misfiring, and the plan stops being a guess.

Physical therapist guiding a patient through a vestibular gaze and head movement test

The Honest Truth

Waiting it out is how a world gets smaller.

If you keep waiting

  • You go out less, and the map shrinks to the rooms you already trust
  • Your balance system gets less practice, so the unsteadiness gets worse, not better
  • Then comes a fall, and after a fall most people move even less

If you start this week

  • Positional testing tells us which system is misfiring, in visit one
  • If it is BPPV, treatment can start right there on the table
  • You get a plan with an endpoint, and an explanation of why this happened

You have spent your life being the steady one. The one who drove everybody, held everybody up, kept the calendar. That is exactly why you have been quietly managing this alone, and exactly why you are reading this. Let someone look at it.

How We Fix It

The same four phases. Aimed at the system that is misfiring.

Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what the four phases look like for dizziness and vertigo.

Weeks 1–2

Pain

Settle the symptoms down.

Testing first, then treatment. If it is BPPV, repositioning happens right on the table. If it is not, we lower the triggers so you can move without the room going with you.

Weeks 2–6

Prime

Retrain the signal.

Gaze stabilization and graded habituation work, dosed small enough to tolerate. This is how the brain learns to trust the inner ear again instead of guarding against it.

Weeks 6–10

Perform

Make your balance strong enough to trust.

Standing, turning, stairs, uneven ground, head moving while you walk. We rebuild the exact situations you have been quietly steering around.

Weeks 10+

Prevent

Keep the ground steady.

You leave knowing your own triggers and what to do the morning it returns. That is the endpoint: you handling it, not another open appointment.

I was privileged to have someone who was able to diagnose exactly what washappening to me. I was provided therapy that helped me to quickly recover from MdDS. Dr. Moskowitz and his knowledge on MdDS was amazing. He was patient, and not only treated my diagnosis, but educated me on why this was happening.

Shared by Deborah H. · Dizziness & Vertigo

Dizzy, and nobody could say exactly what was happening to her

Diagnosed, treated, and taught why it was happening

Vertigo and MdDS Deborah H.

Related Conditions

Balance problems rarely travel alone.

Dizziness usually sits next to one of these. Here’s what else we treat.

1

Parkinson’s

Smaller steps, a quieter voice, and movement that needs its amplitude back.

Learn More 2

Neck Pain & Headaches

A stiff neck can feed the light-headedness, and bring the headache with it.

Learn More 3

Chronic Pain

Years of “just live with it” from people who never looked for the actual cause.

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Questions, Answered

What people ask before booking for dizziness and vertigo.

Sometimes that is exactly the fix, and when it is, it can work quickly. But the Epley only helps one kind of vertigo, BPPV, and only in the canal it is aimed at. Point the wrong maneuver at the wrong problem and nothing changes. So we test first: your eyes, your head movement, your positions, your walking. If the testing points to BPPV, repositioning can start in that same visit, done by hand by a licensed physical therapist.

Some dizziness does settle on its own, and we will tell you honestly if yours looks like that. But waiting has a cost while you wait. You go out less, you drive less, and your balance system gets less practice at the one thing it needs practice at. A consult with a licensed physical therapist gets you an answer instead of another month of guessing.

Some of it can bring your symptoms on briefly, and that is on purpose. Provoking it is how we find out which system is misfiring. You are never caught off guard: every test is explained before we do it, you are seated or lying down, and you can stop whenever you want. Most people find a short spin easier than another week of not knowing.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back during clinic hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon & Wed 8:15am–7:00pm · Tue & Thu 8:15am–5:30pm · Fri 8:15am–3:30pm · Sat & Sun closed
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