If you’ve ever been dizzy without a cause—no alcohol in your system, no blunt trauma to the head, no ear infection—you may have experienced benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. It’s a common ...

What causes BPPV, and is there a treatment for it? A: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV, is one of the most common causes of vertigo (dizziness). BPPV is characterized by sudden bursts of ...

The first step in treating vertigo is understanding its cause. Many conditions can trigger vertigo an expert says. Middle ear fluid, dislodged crystals in the inner ear, Meniere's disease, vestibular ...

Vertigo affects millions of people worldwide, creating a disorienting sensation where the world seems to spin uncontrollably around them. This debilitating condition goes far beyond simple dizziness, ...

Alfred Hitchcock called his frightening movie “Vertigo” for a reason. While the 1958 film noir directed by Hitchcock is classified as a psychological thriller, the real, everyday variety of vertigo is ...

A few years ago, my husband couldn’t roll out of bed without feeling dizzy. Our family doctor referred him to an otolaryngologist, who sent him home with a motion sickness prescription. Worse than ...

A UCLA study shows for the first time how microscopic crystals form sound and gravity sensors inside the inner ear. Located at the ends of cilia — tiny cellular hairs in the ear that move and transmit ...

After Alex Donaldson fell backwards from a chair and hit her head with force – what she describes as a 'good bash' – doctors feared she had injured her neck, but she had a different concern. For ...