5 Triggers of Vertigo (and how to prevent them)

5 Triggers of Vertigo (and how to prevent them)

You probably don’t experience vertigo all the time. It normally hits you suddenly, and you begin to feel dizzy, with the room beginning to spin. Then after anything from minutes to hours, you get better. This leads to the big question: What triggers your vertigo? And...
Is Your Vertigo Caused By This Sound?

Is Your Vertigo Caused By This Sound?

Do you experience dizziness when you hear a certain sound? Or perhaps when you hear the old test tone on a television, a mosquito’s buzz, a trumpet, construction machinery, or a baby’s incessant crying? The sounds may actually be so subtle that you never...
Vertigo Cured With This Computer Game

Vertigo Cured With This Computer Game

It wouldn’t be too bad to heal your vertigo and have fun playing a virtual computer game at the same time, right? Well, as long as it works! A team of Italian researchers has now published a study in the Journal Clinical Rehabilitation that showed how this...
These Vertigo Drugs Worsen Vertigo (study)

These Vertigo Drugs Worsen Vertigo (study)

If you suffer from vertigo, be very careful when accepting any drugs. This is as many of them cause or worsen vertigo as a side effect. Ironically, a new German study published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety revealed that one of the leading drug...
What Do the Brains of Vertigo Sufferers Look Like?

What Do the Brains of Vertigo Sufferers Look Like?

Vertigo is normally definitively diagnosed by a doctor who examines your eye movements in response to head movements. But authors of a new study in the journal Human Brain Mapping were wondering what the brains of vertigo sufferers looked like and whether the changes...