Symptoms Conditions Tests
Plain language guides covering everything you need to know about dizziness and balance problems.
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Dizziness vs Vertigo — What's the Difference?
True spinning vertigo or general dizziness? What both mean for your diagnosis and treatment.
Why Do I Feel Dizzy When I Stand Up?
A simple blood pressure drop or something that needs further assessment.
Dizziness and Anxiety: Are They Connected?
Anxiety and dizziness, when symptoms may have an underlying vestibular cause.
Why Is My Balance Worse in the Dark?
Why your balance relies more on vision than you think.
Why Do I Feel Dizzy When I Look Up?
Why looking up can trigger brief dizziness—and when it points to a positional inner ear issue.
Why Do I Feel Dizzy When Turning In Bed?
Why rolling over in bed can trigger sudden spinning—and how it can be diagnosed and treated in minutes.
Dizziness with Ringing in the Ear (Tinnitus)
Understand why dizziness and tinnitus occur together—and what it may mean for your inner ear health.
Why Do I Feel Dizzy When Scrolling on My Phone?
Scrolling your phone shouldn't make you dizzy. If it does, your vestibular system is telling you something.
Why Am I Dizzy in Supermarkets?
Learn about visual vertigo, PPPD, vestibular migraine and other causes of visually induced dizziness.
Do supermarkets, crowds or busy patterns make you feel dizzy? Learn about visually induced dizziness.
Dizziness After Concussion or Head Injury
Dizziness after concussion or head injury - learn about BPPV, vestibular concussion, PPPD and other causes.
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Vertigo, hearing changes, and pressure in the ear — when to seek specialist assessment.
BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo)
Brief spinning when you move your head, and how it can often be treated quickly.
Dizziness and imbalance even without a headache — how vestibular migraine looks.
Sudden vertigo, hearing loss, and imbalance — what recovery typically looks like.
Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD)
Persistent dizziness even when tests are normal — how targeted treatment can break the cycle.
When both balance organs are affected — how rehabilitation can help you adapt.
Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence (SSCD)
Sound or pressure induced dizziness — when specialist assessment is needed.
Reduces inner ear balance function on one side — how targeted rehabilitation can restore stability.
Inflammation of the balance nerve — how the brain gradually recovers through natural compensation.
Neck Related Dizziness (Cervicogenic)
Dizziness with neck pain and neck position - the two are unlikely to be a coincidence.
Still feeling like you're rocking after a cruise or long journey? - you may have Mal de Débarquement.
TMJ and Dizziness: Understanding the Connection Between Jaw Problems and Balance Symptoms.
Age Related Balance Problems (Presbyvestibulopathy)
Age related changes in the balance system - a common cause of balance problems and falls in the elderly.
Dizziness After COVID (Long COVID Balance Problems)
Persistent dizziness, rocking or brain fog after COVID - specialist assessment may help.
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Video Head Impulse Test (vHIT)
A test that measures the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR), a reflex that keeps your vision stable when you move your head.
Lightweight infrared video goggles that allow us to record tiny eye movements under different conditions.
A test that measures the otoliths; the parts of your balance system that many other vestibular tests cannot measure.
Tests that measure your hearing sensitivity and middle ear pressure, allowing differential diagnosis of balance disorders.
A test that measures how well the brain uses your vision, vestibular system and muscles to maintain balance.