{"id":17676,"date":"2018-03-09T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=17676"},"modified":"2018-03-03T00:33:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T05:33:21","slug":"vertigo-cured-with-this-simple-home-based-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2018\/03\/09\/vertigo-cured-with-this-simple-home-based-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertigo Cured With This Simple Home-Based Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Vertigo_67383505_m-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Vertigo Cured With This Simple Home-Based Therapy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>A new British and Swedish study reveals disturbing findings on doctor\u2019s ability to help people with vertigo.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 296 vertigo sufferers, age +50, were either sent for face-to-face visits to a doctor, or were directed to a simple website with information and techniques to battle vertigo.<\/p>\n<p>The Vestibular rehabilitation website was compiled by health psychology and primary care researchers at the <em>University of Southampton<\/em> and consisted of video demonstrations, text directions, personal feedback, and cognitive-behavioral coping strategies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/balance.lifeguidehealth.org\/player\/play\/balance\">You can find the site here\u2026<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The general practitioners to whom the other group was sent were situated at 54 primary care practices in the south of England.<\/p>\n<p>To measure the severity of vertigo, the researchers gave their participants the Vertigo Symptom Scale\u2013Short Form at the beginning of the study, after three months, and again after six months.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of both the three-month and six-month periods, the Vestibular rehabilitation group suffered less vertigo than the general practitioner group.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, after both these periods, the vertigo-related disability scores were also much lower in the Vestibular rehabilitation group than in their peers who received the standard treatment.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that people can often have much better results by taking charge of their conditions themselves rather than relying on doctors that may sometimes be misguided.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/?page_id=1040\">Even better than Vestibular rehabilitation are simple sets of vertigo and dizziness exercises, found here, that work almost instantly\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new British and Swedish study reveals disturbing findings on doctor\u2019s ability to help people with vertigo. 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