Concussion patients often complain of dizziness and vertigo after the injury. These difficulties are frequently caused by a combination of disorders, such as disruptions with your brain’s balance centers, visual dysfunctions, or troubles with muscle and joint sensors in the neck. According to the article published by Terry Fife and Christopher Giza in Seminars in Neurology, 2013; Causes of persisting or recurrent dizziness may include benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, unilateral vestibular nerve injury, or damage to the utricle or saccule, perilymphatic fistula, or less commonly traumatic endolymphatic hydrops otherwise known as Meniere’s disease. Some dizziness after head trauma is due to nonlabyrinthine causes that may be related to structural or microstructural central nervous system injury or to more complicated interactions between migraine, generalized anxiety, and issues related to patient’s self-perception, predisposing psychological states, and environmental and stress-related factors. These dysfunctions can be successfully addressed with visual, vestibular, manual therapies, and sometimes in combination with cognitive behavioral therapy.
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