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RECOVER · DIZZINESS, VERTIGO & BALANCE
Unsteady, dizzy, or feel like the room is moving?
Vestibular assessment and rehabilitation for people of every age. We find out where your dizziness is coming from, then retrain your balance system so your can get back to moving with confidence.
What we see
Dizziness has many causes. These are some of the most common.
The room spins when you roll over or look up
Often BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo)
Dizzy since a virus or an ear infection
Vestibular neuritis or labyrinthitis
Unsteady all the time, worse in busy places
Including persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD)
Dizziness with headaches or migraine
Including vestibular migraine, with your GP
Dizzy with a stiff or sore neck
Neck-related (cervicogenic) dizziness
Worried about falling
Falls prevention and balance training, at any age
Motion sick, or thrown by screens and scrolling
Motion and visual sensitivity
Episodes with ear fullness or hearing changes
We work alongside your GP or ENT specialist
Dizzy, foggy or exhausted with an immune or post-viral condition
Neuroimmune conditions [examples to confirm], with your medical team
Where dizziness comes from
Inner ear, or brain? It matters.
Peripheral
The inner ear and balance nerve
Central
The brain's balance centres
Often more than one
The neck, vision and stress
How we access
Two levels, depending on what you need.
Level 1 · Everyone
Ikigai Shift Assessment
Balance, inner ear, vision, neck and body awareness, plus how you think and react while you move. Includes Neckcare and neck strength testing, and spinning and rotation testing if you're ready for it.
Level 2 · when required
Complex vestibular assessment
A detailed look at peripheral versus central causes: eye-movement testing, positional testing for BPPV, head impulse and gaze-stability tests, and advanced balance testing. [Equipment, e.g. video goggles: confirm]
Some tests can bring on dizziness for a moment. We explain each one first, and we go at your pace.
How we treat it
Matched to what we find, not a one-size-fits-all sheet of exercises.
Repositioning
Gentle head movements to treat BPPV
Vestibular rehab
Gaze stability, balance and habituation exercises that retrain your system.
Neck & Sensory Work
Treating the neck and calming the sensory input that keeps dizziness going.
Back to real life
Reactive balance, busy environments and falls prevention, building up to what you need to do.
FEES & Funding
Ways to pay
Private Health Insurance: health fund rebates are available
Medicare: rebates may be available for physiotherapy with a GP chronic condition management plan, for eligible patients.
Workers compensation & CTP: Accepted
NDIS: can be funded through your plan See NDIS