At Healing Touch Rehab, we offer specialised vestibular rehabilitation services designed to treat dizziness, balance issues, and inner ear disorders. Our expert physiotherapists use targeted exercises and physical therapy to improve the function of our patients’ vestibular system, reducing symptoms like dizziness and instability. With personalised treatments, we aim to restore balance, enhance mobility, and alleviate pain, helping patients regain their quality of life. Whether they are experiencing vertigo or other balance-related disorders, our clinic is here to guide individuals through a tailored rehabilitation process, improving both their physical health and overall well-being.
What is Vestibular Rehabilitation?
This type of rehabilitation is a specialised therapy programme designed to address symptoms of dizziness and imbalance by targeting the inner ear’s vestibular system. This comprehensive treatment approach focuses on a series of tailored exercises that aim to improve central nervous system compensation. By enhancing postural control and physical function through targeted exercises, patients can experience significant improvements in their overall health.
This type of alternative treatment focuses on specific exercises to address inner-ear deficits by promoting central nervous system compensation. By engaging in these targeted exercises, patients can experience improvements in balance, control, and dizziness. This approach allows the brain to adapt and minimise the impact of disorienting signals coming from the inner ears by learning to rely more on alternative sensory inputs from the eyes, ankles, legs and neck to maintain balance.
Individuals suffering from vestibular and inner ear disorders often face challenges with balance and position or movement-related dizziness. These primary symptoms can be accompanied by secondary issues linked to decreased activity levels. Secondary symptoms may include reduced muscle strength, limited range of motion, and heightened tension in the cervical and shoulder muscles leading to muscle fatigue, migraines, headaches and tension. These symptoms have the potential to impact an individual’s ability to change positions smoothly, transition between sitting and standing or lying down comfortably.
Dizziness
Experiencing unsteadiness or dizziness can have a significant impact on your daily life, making it challenging to carry out everyday tasks and affecting your overall well-being. Vestibular rehabilitation is a specialised form of therapy designed to desensitise the balance system and alleviate both primary and secondary symptoms of vestibular disorders by central nervous system compensation.
Once the central nervous system has undergone rehabilitation to compensate for any dysfunction or injury, individuals can experience improvements in their postural control, balance coordination and overall stability. However, they may rely on input from various sensory systems such as vision, sensation and muscles and joints proprioception. Clinical evidence has shown that engaging in specific physiotherapy exercises tailored to address inner ear issues can significantly alleviate symptoms associated with a range of disorders. These exercises have been particularly beneficial for patients recovering from surgeries related to vestibular conditions or seeking relief from conditions like BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo), imbalance issues or vertigo episodes.
This form of physiotherapy requires specialist knowledge, training and expertise in this area. At Healing Touch Rehab, our team of expert physiotherapists offers comprehensive services aimed at improving the health and function of patients experiencing vestibular dysfunction. Our clinic provides a range of treatments, including exercises, postural training, and manual therapies such as massage to help manage pain and improve balance. We work closely with patients to set out specific goals that are realistic and achievable and formulate a rehabilitation plan that would help clients achieve their goals.
Specialist physical assessment which includes
- Vestibulo-ocular assessments
- Cranial nerves assessments
- Balance assessments
- Assessment for sensory interaction in balance
- Assessment for coordination
- Gait Assessment
- Special vestibular tests
- Objective assessment to include motion sensitivity tests, berg balance tests etc.
Conditions we treat
- BPPV
- Imbalance
- Dizziness
- Vertigo
- Labyrinthitis
- Meniers disease
- Migraine
Our goal is to assist our clients in regaining, restoring and achieving their goals through specialised physiotherapy. Our vestibular rehabilitation therapy (VRT) services are specifically designed to target neurological issues that result in imbalance, dizziness, migraine and Meniers disease, among other conditions. To instruct us, get in touch with Kay Ganguly, Clinical Director, Consultant Physiotherapist & Expert Witness.
Following a comprehensive evaluation, our expert team formulates personalised rehabilitation plans and therapy objectives tailored to your unique needs. This individualised approach is essential for addressing the vestibular system and targeting any neurological dysfunctions that may be contributing to feelings of dizziness or instability. Our treatment strategy focuses on establishing specific goals centered around stabilisation, vestibular habituation, and balance retraining through specialised physiotherapy exercises.
Book a treatment home, school or community visit
To make clients feel as comfortable as possible, we offer home visits or arrange treatment at one of our community clinics at William Merritt Centre, Leeds, or a similar centre or location of your choice in your local community across the North West and Yorkshire, or we could arrange to see you at a suitable space within your community.
We appreciate our clients may have mobility restrictions and will always consider how to make consultations and treatments as convenient, time optimised and pain-free as possible. Community-based rehabilitation and integration back into the community is the key to any successful rehabilitation. Besides the benefit of a familiar environment and the discipline of following treatment plans within their own setting , community-based treatment enables the client to stay motivated while involving their family and friends.