When is Letting Yourself Get Dizzy Helpful?

Sometimes what makes you dizzy can make you better, but when is that the case?

We call exposing yourself to dizziness, habituation exercises.

This is doing repeated movements or activities that bring on your symptoms to help your brain process information more efficiently so you're not dizzy with doing them anymore.

There are some diagnoses that this will NOT work for:

BPPV: if you exacerbate your dizziness when you have BPPV, you're just moving those crystals around. Make sure you test and treat for the correct canal, you can learn how in my Vertigo Kickstart Mini Course!

Cervicogenic dizziness: if irritated neck structures are contributing to your dizziness, irritating them more will just make you more dizzy. Make sure to fix this problem first!

Active Migraine Attack: with an active migraine attack, your brain is not in a position to recover or adapt, wait until it passes before performing vestibular exercises.

Semicircular Canal Dehiscence or Perilymphatic fistula: These need to be fixed surgically, making yourself dizzy won't help.
Diagnoses this WILL work for:

3PD: Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness occurs when the brain is not processing information as it should. Exposing yourself to situations that make you dizzy will introduce an error that the brain needs to correct for.

Vestibular neuritis: After the acute stage of vestibular neuritis, doing habituation exercises will help the brain compensate for the weakness in the inner ear.

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