While sitting up, turn your head 45 degrees to one side. Then quickly lay down such that the head is tilted back 30 degrees. A pillow positioned behind the shoulders can help achieve the proper angle.

While many ER visits for dizziness result in expensive CT scans and sedatives, researchers are finding there are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nope, it's not just mild dizziness. Ever experience feeling dizzy and off balance, as if everything around you is spinning? If so, ...

A 28-year-old communications director presented to her family physician with a 2-month history of dizziness, nearly always upon awakening from bed. The dizziness occurred almost every day, but lasted ...

The most prevalent peripheral vestibular end-organ illness, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is characterized by a rapid, brief gyratory sensation accompanied by distinctive nystagmus.

Spinning vertigo episodes are more than just a brief sensation of dizziness; they are a profound and often distressing condition that can profoundly impact an individual’s quality of life. This ...

A patient in his mid-40s with a history of hypertension and noncompliance with medications presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of constant vertigo that is worse with motion. He ...

What caused acute vertigo in two healthy women? That's the diagnostic challenge described by David Elisha, BS, of Tel Aviv University School of Medicine in Israel, and Ronen Nazarian, MD, of ...