The experience of dizziness happens to many people in their lifetime. But there is a specific condition that is the cause of at least 20 percent of vertigo cases and it is called benign paroxysmal ...

A degree of dizziness is natural, but it's important to pay attention to how long, and how intense, your dizzy spells are.

What causes BPPV, and is there a treatment for it? A: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV, is one of the most common causes of vertigo (dizziness). BPPV is characterized by sudden bursts of ...

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Dizziness is a common problem experienced by most people at some point during their lifetime. It can be described as lightheadedness, a feeling of imbalance or a false sensation of movement (vertigo).

The most common cause of intermittent dizziness has a long name: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV. Recent statistics show that about 10 percent of people older than 65 who are having ...

Q: From the minute I get out of bed, I have bouts of dizziness. I don't know what brings them on. I'm afraid that these spells are going to make me fall and break a bone. Do you have any thoughts that ...

When you think of dizziness, you may visualize a child spinning around and around. Stopping, she sways from side to side and falls laughing to the floor. But for many people, dizziness is no laughing ...

Normally, you wouldn't see any movement, but in someone who's dizzy you would see their eye jumping quickly back and forth. That's an indication those crystals in your ear are moving in and out of ...

Alfred Hitchcock called his frightening movie “Vertigo” for a reason. While the 1958 film noir directed by Hitchcock is classified as a psychological thriller, the real, everyday variety of vertigo is ...

That satisfying feeling when you twist a cotton swab in your ear? It might be setting you up for months of spinning rooms and unsteady walking. Millions of people have an ear cleaning habit that’s ...