While there are many symptoms of vertigo, the main symptom is a feeling of false movement. You may feel like you are falling when you are not (vertigo can also impact your balance cause you to fall but that’s different). You may feel like the room is spinning or tilting. You may lose your sense [...]
Benign proxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), also know as benign positional vertigo (BPV) or just positional vertigo for short, is one of the most common types of vertigo. It is ordinarily caused by the build up of small “rocks” of debris (called otoconia) in the inner ear. The main symptom that most people associate with positional [...]
Vertigo is often used synonymously with dizziness or motion sickness. While dizziness is the one of the hallmark symptoms of vertigo, not all dizziness is actually vertigo. Vertigo is not the same as lightheadedness. In this post, we’ll look at the different types of vertigo and how each kind differs in their causes and symptoms. [...]