Referrals Patients with inner ear disorders are often referred to physical and occupational therapy for primary symptoms of balance disorders and movement-related dizziness. In addition, many of these patients have developed secondary symptoms associated with reduced activity levels.
Therapy helps alleviate primary and secondary symptoms.
The symptoms result from pathology within the vestibular system that reduces the patient's ability to move about his or her environment without imbalance and vertigo. Even moderate dizziness can result in a significant disabling condition that can diminish quality of life, reduce employability, and affect all aspects of one's life. The result can be economic and social devastation. The problem of dizziness and disequilibrium is significant, second only to low-back complaints in frequency of occurrence in adult populations. Dizziness itself is not a disease but rather a symptom of a problem within the peripheral or central nervous system.