Thursday, February 10, 2005

How I straightened out my dizzy BPPV world

from The Republican
In writing this column, I run the risk of being charged with practicing medicine without a license. But if what I have to share helps just one person, I'm willing to take the chance. I'm going to write about BPPV, the acronym for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. It's a dizziness that is caused by infinitesimal granules of debris that have the formal name of "otoconia," and are crystals of calcium carbonate, which come from a spot in one's ear called the utricle.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey did you every try The DizzyFIX (http://www.dizzyfix.com) It is a great way for people with BPPV to repeat the maneuvers themselves and improve their treatment or to treat recurrent disease.