Management Team

Dizziness

Overview

Dizziness is a common symptom which can mean spinning of head, imbalance while walking, light headedness due to postural hypotension, faintness, blurring of vision etc.

  • Inner ear problems like BPPV, Labyrinthitis, vestibular migraine
  • Posterior circulation strokes
  • Anxiety/ panic attacks
  • Adverse drug reaction
  • Meniere’s disease
  • Cardiac arrhythmias
  • Autonomic disturbances
  • Syncopal attacks
  • Seizures

  • Female sex
  • Muscular pain in the neck and shoulder region
  • Stress
  • Sleep duration
  • Migraine

Neurologist

  • Directed towards finding underlying aetiology
  • Pure tone audiometry
  • MRI brain and angiography
  • ECG
  • Holter monitoring
  • Autonomic nervous testing
  • EEG

Symptomatic/ treatment of underlying cause

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