Question 1

what is vertigo?

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Sensation of moving: Vertigo is the sensation that you are moving when you are not. It can present as spinning dizziness, swaying, or tilting. It is a symptoms of a number of conditions, but usually those that affect the inner ear vestibular system. This system maintains balance and alert the brain to body position and movement.  If you are experiencing this, see your physician for evaluation.

Question 2

what is vertigo?

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: By Vikipedia: vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. 
By WebMD: vertigo is a sensation of feeling off balance. If you have these dizzy spells, you might feel like you are spinning or that the world around you is spinning.

Question 3

vertigo - what causes and cures it? what is vertigo? why would one suffer from it, and how can it be managed?

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Vertigo : Vertigo is a word that is often confused.  Many people use it interchangeably with "dizziness" so it is important to know what you mean.  Sometimes people mean getting light-headed, like when you stand up too fast and feel faint.  Other times people mean they have trouble keeping their balance because their coordination is disrupted.  Both of those examples are not vertigo.  True vertigo is the sensation that your body is spinning.  Anyone can give themselves vertigo by spinning around very fast and then stopping, like on a playground toy.  Under normal circumstances, the "balance" signal comes from the semicircular canals, through the vestibular nerve, and into the brainstem and cerebellum.  It is your body's way of knowing if you are spinning so you can compensate.

Some people get vertigo for no apparent reason.  This happens when some part of that circuit is disrupted.  One type that is quite common is for tiny crystals in your semicircular canals to float around and trick the nerves.  This is called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, and the spinning feeling lasts a few moments, usually provoked by turning over in the bed or something like that.  It can be fixed by doing the dix-hallpike maneuver, which is really just a fancy way of rolling around to put the crystals back in place.  Other types of vertigo arise from anything that is affecting that circuit: canals, nerve, brainstem, cerebellum.  This can be an infection, inflammation, a stroke, a tumor...Many things.  The trick is determining whether it is something bad or just a nuisance.  For people that have had vertigo for years, it's usually just a nuisance and nothing to worry about.  But if it is a new symptom, you should see a doctor to make sure it's nothing to worry about.

Question 4

what is visual vertigo?

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Vretigo from  vision: Some people, myself included, can get vertigo and dizzy from looking at things that are moving rapidly. An example of this are the high definition video games that people play. If the characters in the game move rapidly from place to place, up and down, it can make you dizzy and nauseous. Reading your cell phone in the car can also make you very dizzy. The eyes are hard wired into the inner ear.

Question 5

what is random vertigo?

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Comments: Not familiar with term "random", but maybe you mean to ask about paroxysmal vertigo, which can occur suddenly, with or without a migraine headache, and be present for a short time, and recur without warning over a period of time.

Question 6

what is height vertigo and can it be treated or cured? high places (window looking out tall building, balcony at theater, etc.) sometimes make me feel a bit off-balance. not afraid of heights and no spinning feeling. scientific explanation?

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: It is acrophobia (fear of heights), not height vertigo. You only use the term vertigo when you have spinning along with nausea, sometimes vomit when in that situation. You can train yourself by a method called cognitive behavior treatment. Phobia is a true behavior disorder.

Question 7

what is intermittent diploplia vertigo?

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Intermittent: Means it comes and goes. Diploplia is double vision and vertigo is the sensation that you are spinning.

Question 8

what is post tramatic vertigo and how long should you have it after an accident?

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Brain or ear concuss: Vertigo, could be from brain concussion and may take mo to year to improve. It may also be from labyrinthine concussion caused by energy delivered to the temporal bone that houses the inner ear and can be determined by vng test.  Pt can help inner ear weakness but not as successful for brain. May take a year to stabilize.   Neck injury can also cause vertigo with vertigo paralleling neck symptoms.

Question 9

what is the definition of vertigo?

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Spinning: Vertigo /ˈvɜː(ɹ)tɨɡoʊ/ (from the latin vertō "a whirling or spinning movement"[1]) is a subtype of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary.[2] the symptoms are due to an asymmetric dysfunction of the vestibular system in the inner ear.[2] it is often associated with nausea and vomiting as well as a balance disorder, causing difficulties standing or walking.

Question 10

vertigo

what is and how to manage vertigo?

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Dizziness: Quite simply, vertigo is a type of dizziness that results from changes within the structures of the inner ear that tell the brain where we are and what we're doing. As vertigo can be a symptom of an underlying disorder, you might want to have your doctor check it out just to be safe.  If it's transient (like motion sickness on a cruise, there's a scopolamine patch that works really well).

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