Ms Sarah Chen*, a competitive swimmer in her 40s, was in the middle of a training session when a sudden wave of vertigo swept over her. Though brief, the disorienting sensation left her shaken ...

The symptoms may be due to benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, pregnancy, or motion sickness, for example. Each cause is treated a little differently, so identifying the underlying reason for your ...

Patients with peripheral vertigo were excluded ... patients treated with antivertigo drugs (betahistine, phenothiazine, papaverine) or with calcium channel antagonists such as flunarizine or ...

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a type of vertigo caused by calcium crystals in the inner ear. These crystals are usually located in two parts of the ear called the utricle and saccule.

Objective: To study the success of intratympanic gentamicin (ITG) treatment in reducing vertigo attacks in Meniere's disease (MD) and the value of the Halmagyi head thrust test (HTT) in predicting ...