The Dizziness & Balance Disorders we assess and treat
There are many disorders in the branch of physiotherapy in which we work. So here is a list of the various conditions, presentations, and disorders that we are able to help you with.
If you’d like to arrange an appointment, private patients do not require a referral from a medical practitioner; you may be self referred or referred by an Allied Health Professional.
Neurological and Central Vestibular Disorders
- Mal de Débarquement Syndrome – prolonged (triggered)
- Parkinson’s disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
- Spino-cerebellar ataxias
- Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness(PPPD)
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Wallenberg Syndrome (Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Syndrome)
- Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Syndrome
- Cerebellar degeneration
- Cerebellar disorders – tumours, infarcts, infections, genetic
- Cerebellopontine Angle Tumour
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury – Concussion
- Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency
- Vestibular Migraine
- Audio-vestibular Sarcoidosis
- Meningitis
- Functional Neurologic Disorders
- Episodic ataxias
- Peripheral Neuropathies- cause unknown, Diabetes mellitus type 2
- Head, neck and labyrinthine trauma
- Visual Induced Vertigo
- Stroke/tumours/infections in different regions of the brain – internal capsule, thalamus, parietal, temporal, frontal lobes, corpus callosum
Peripheral Vestibular Disorders
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
- Congenital Inner Ear Malformations
- Meniere’s disease -one or both ears
- Vestibular neuritis (unilateral vestibulopathy)
- Sleep Disorders and Vestibulopathy
- Labyrinthitis
- Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
- Labyrinthine Stroke
- Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence
- Perilymph Fistula
- Labyrinthine Concussion
- Vestibular (acoustic) schwannoma
- Bilateral Vestibular Loss (vestibulopathy)
- Motion sickness
Vestibular Disorders in Children +/- Hearing Loss
- Otitis Media (common ear infection)
- Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome
- Idiophathic Congenital Hearing Loss
- Common Syndromes associated with Hearing Loss: Usher, Waardenburg, Pendred and Alport
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Hearing Loss caused by meningitis.
- Abnormal anatomy of the Vestibular (balance) Organ
- Acquired post-surgery (cochlear implantation)
- Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo (migraine)