Your health practitioner may refer you for VRT with the hope of reducing your symptoms and improving your quality of life.
Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) is a Physical Therapy for helping the brain compensate for vestibular dysfunction.
It usually involves repetitive movement of body, head, neck and eyes for short but repeated bursts. A program of exercises is often prescribed for daily practice, often twice a day.
A specialist Physio Therapist will see you periodically to assess your needs, progress and prescribe exercises accordingly.
Here’s a useful video on VRT:
Not everyone finds VRT helpful and it can precipitate migraines. Some find regular normal light exercise like long walks are as good as a course of VRT.
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My neurologist recommended vestibular exercises but he just told me to look for some online. There are so many different videos on YouTube explaining vestibular migraine but I’ve only found one with exercises, so does anyone have any recommendations for specific videos and particular exercises?
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I’d consider getting a new neurologist! He should really have proposed some?
Perhaps share that one here and we can comment?
He’s the only headaches specialist on the NHS in my area. There’s no one else I could see. Apart from that, in my experience no doctor is ever perfect. There’s always some little thing they could do better. He’s treated my VM well for 6 years now, I wouldn’t want to swap to someone else.
The two videos I’ve found are these:
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Check the VEDA website. They can refer you to online resources. If you don’t find it on their website, give them a call.
hmmm ideally post the resources here.
Double check that VEDA resources don’t require a referral from a doctor. Every one in my area does.
As far as I can see the VEDA website just says vestibular therapy is done by a professional and it’s tailored to the individual. It doesn’t give examples to do at home. I’ve just been doing the ones I found in those two videos above.
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You might give them a call. I’ve found them very helpful with recommending resources.
A couple of example exercise sheets I found from my PT back in 2016
These were prepared by Dr. Marousa Pavlou who was my PT. She was practicing in London. Recommended if you can tolerate VRT.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marousa-pavlou-630a1b46
I will take them down upon request of the author.
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Thanks for sharing those.
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Yes, I went through vestibular therapy and it helped quite a bit. However when I first started, it was too much for my brain to handle so my doc had me back off for awhile until my symptoms were under better control with medication. Once I started up again it was a slow, somewhat difficult process but it helped get me back out into the world. It doesn’t work for everyone though.
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Diagnoses of VM (a few years ago) and Meniere’s Disease 30+ years ago. In the past 3 years I’ve been to two different VRT therapists who gave me (lame) exercises to do. The most recent was 4 weeks ago. They both said they didn’t think my issues were vestibular in nature. I didn’t exhibit nystagmus at the time of my visit and was able to do the exercises with ease. Just the same, I decided to look online for vestibular exercises that include head movement hoping to move my inner ear fluid somehow (as I feel that’s the culprit of my problems). I recently found this website online and feel these movements have been most challenging and helpful for me. I don’t use pillows or cushions, I use an exercise cushion. Thought I’d share them. My best to you all.
Vestibular (Balance) Exercises - University of Mississippi Medical Center
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