What is vestibular therapy?
Vestibular therapy is retraining for the balance system in your inner ear and the reflexes that depend on it. Your brain keeps you upright by comparing three streams of information: what the inner ear senses about head motion, what your eyes see, and what your joints and muscles report about where your body is. When the inner ear stream becomes faulty, or the streams stop agreeing with each other, you get vertigo, unsteadiness, blurring when you turn your head, or a fog that worsens in busy places. Dr. Egbuzie is certified in Vestibular Rehabilitation and in Concussion Management, and the evaluation exists to sort out which of those systems is actually at fault. Not all dizziness is the same problem, and treating it as though it were is why so many people are simply told to wait it out. Positional vertigo caused by loose crystals in a canal is managed differently from an inner ear that has lost function on one side, and both are different again from the dizziness that follows a concussion. What the examination finds is what determines the treatment, which is why a first visit here is mostly testing.
You do not need a referral to be assessed in Texas. The evaluation runs 45 to 60 minutes with Dr. Egbuzie, one on one, which is genuinely how long this examination takes. Fittees is cash-based with a detailed superbill you can submit for reimbursement. Positional vertigo can change quickly, while other presentations typically run two to three visits a week for four to six weeks.
