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Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is the most common form of vertigo.<\/p>\nBenign paroxysmal positional vertigo is the most common form of vertigo.<\/p>\n
This type of vertigo has two subtypes: traumatic and idiopathic.<\/p>\n
The traumatic type most commonly occurs in response to a blow to your head.<\/p>\n
The idiopathic type is the one that occurs spontaneously, with no definite cause, and is the type that sends people rushing to the emergency room in fear of a stroke.<\/p>\n
A new study in the journal Otolaryngology\u2013Head and Neck Surgery<\/em> has revealed a simple treatment that works for both of these subtypes.<\/p>\n They examined the medical charts of 1,378 people who visited a tertiary otology center between 2007 and 2017. All of them had been diagnosed with and treated for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, while 8% of the group had suffered from the traumatic variant.<\/p>\n Surprisingly, there were no major differences between the two types (leading to the question on the need to categorize them).<\/p>\n The symptoms, the treatments, and the treatment outcomes were the same for both types, and primarily consisted of a series of head movements that moved the crystals that were out of the semicircular canals back to where they belonged.<\/p>\n Overall, 38% of the patients required more than one course of treatment, with symptoms reoccurring after the first session.<\/p>\n The treatment resolved the symptoms completely in 76% of the cases and showed significantly improved symptoms in the rest of them.<\/p>\n