by Dr. Laura Wazen | Dec 1, 2016 | Balance
Balance therapy is a generalized category of physical therapy exercises to help an individual improve their balance. The ultimate goals of balance therapy are to prevent falls and increase a person’s functional abilities and independence, both at home and in the...
by Dr. Laura Wazen | Oct 28, 2015 | BPPV, Vertigo
Money Matters (Selected Part of Letters from Aunt Evelyn), conceptual art by Barton Lidice Benes, 1982. This is an article that I thought I would never write. When I first started working as a physical therapist, I worked for a big hospital in Manhattan. I never had...
by Dr. Laura Wazen | Oct 5, 2015 | BPPV
BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) is the most common type of inner ear problem, comprising approximately 25% of all inner ear problems. It is caused when crystals in the ear that are supposed to sit on top of the nerve fibers in a jelly like matrix,...
by Dr. Laura Wazen | Jul 13, 2015 | Vertigo
From a medical terminology standpoint, vertigo is the sensation that the world is spinning around you, or that the world is still and you are spinning. But what’s it really like? From a personal standpoint, everyone experiences vertigo differently. I have had many...
by Dr. Laura Wazen | Jun 26, 2015 | BPPV
BPPV hit the international stage this last week at the 2015 US Open Golf Tournament in Chambers Bay when Australian golfer Jason Day suffered an attack of vertigo and fell to the ground. It’s not every day that people all over the world are talking about and...
