Balance disorders and dizziness
Balance disorders, dizziness or vertigo can have many different causes. BPPV (Beningne Paroxysmal Position Vertigo) can be diagnosed in 15% of patients with vertigo symptoms. This is a temporary disruption in the functioning of the vestibular system (labyrinth) because the hearing stones (ear crystals) are placed in the wrong place.
What is it?
Other otological disorders such as Meniere's Disease are responsible for 25%. Chronic hyperventilation and neck problems (e.g. whiplash) can also be a cause of dizziness. In 30% of patients with vertigo symptoms, no clear cause can be found. When there are no otological causes, the problem can sometimes be found centrally.
The brain receives all kinds of stimuli from our body that help it to form an image of the position of our body in the environment. To do this, they receive information not only from the vestibular organ, but also from the muscles of the neck, the limbs, the trunk,....
When we move, our eyes adapt automatically because a reflex arc in the brain stem, based on information from the labyrinth, is activated. This system ensures that we can read a text when we move our head. On the other hand, when the text itself moves, reading becomes seriously difficult. After all, the reflex arc is not activated because our vestibular system does not experience changes in the position of the head.
When a disturbance of our balance organ occurs, the reflex arc will also be disturbed. Fortunately, our brain is an adaptive system that usually allows it to compensate for the missing or wrong information. Unfortunately, this compensation sometimes goes wrong, so that the dizziness can become chronic.
How to treat
In addition to physiotherapy or drug treatments, neuromodulation can be used to treat chronic vertigo.
By applying a weak electrical current to the large nerve that runs over the back of our head (Occipitalis nerve), vertigo symptoms can decrease, we call this C2 stimulation.
Exactly how this works is not yet clear and requires further scientific research.
When this C2 stimulation does not work or works inadequately, brain regions can be stimulated that, based on a qEEG, work differently than a normal population. The qEEG can help us determine which neuromodulation technique could have the most effect.
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Auditory and vestibular disorders
These disorders are related to hearing and balance and can have a major impact on your daily life.
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