Vertigo / Dizziness

info@spinalcare.com.au — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:26:41 +1100

Vertigo (dizziness) (1) refers to the subjective sensation of rotatory movement, either of the individual or the environment, and having difficulty to orientate the body in relation to surrounding subjects.

There can be many causes (1) of vertigo (dizziness), some such as diseases involving the labyrinths the vestibular portion of the eighth cranial nerve, and their nuclei and connections. Drug and chemical toxicity, hyperventilation syndrome, multiple sensory disorders, psychiatric disorders, brainstem cerebro-vascular accidents, other neurologic disorders, and cardiovascular disorders.