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Hey everybody it's Doctor Jo.
Do you ever have that feeling that the room is spinning
and you're not drunk? You probably have Vertigo,
but the positional vertigo which is benign. So it's really important to go
to your doctor to
get it checked out if something's going on because it could be a symptom of
something more serious.
If you've been diagnosed with BPPV,
I'm gonna show you some exercises to get that a little bit better
for ya. So first exercise is a Brandt-Daroff
exercise. Basically you're gonna do this five times
two times a day in each position there's gonna be a
30 second hold between. The first movement you wanna do is go down to one side
and turn your head at a 45 degree angle so
it's just going to be going down like this, my head's
at a 45 degree angle and I'm upholding this for 30 seconds.
You might get a little dizzy, feel a little yucky, but if you hold it for the
30 seconds
the dizziness will probably go away. Then you're going to come back up into the
seated position,
wait 30 more seconds. Again you're probably going to be a little dizzy
that' spinning's going on, but it should go away.
And then go to the other side again with your head at a 45 degree angle
holding that for 30 seconds. Now the couch that I'm on is a little bit squishy you
probably want something a little bit firmer,
but if you can hold that 45 degree angle of your head while you're lying down
that's fine.
Then you're gonna come back up final 30 second hold.
Doing that five times, two times a day.
The next thing I wanna show you is some gaze stabilization exercises. And this
just retrains your brain
to not have that dizziness when you move your head quickly. So there's some pretty
simple exercises,
the first one is actually just moving your eyes back and forth.
So you just gonna look side to side, a nice smooth motion,
ten times back and forth. After you've gone back and forth,
you're gonna look up and down still trying to keep your head
in one spot. Now remember this might make you a little dizzy and if it does
that's okay it's reproducing those symptoms,
but the more you do the less it'll be.
Then looking at one corner and back down to the other corner,
going up and down, and then the opposite corner
up and down. After you done
the moving the eyes, now you're going to actually move your head.
Take a spot that you can focus on you can use your finger
you can put something on the wall like an "X" or an "A" or
any letter of the alphabet that you want, but now you're actually moving your head
so you're focus on one spot keep your eyes on that one spot
moving your head side to side, then
moving it up and down, trying to keep your eyes on that spot the whole time it's
gonna wanna move, but
really try to focus on that spot, then
going at an angle, one way
and going at an angle the other way. Trying to keep your eyes focus on that
one spot
the whole time. If you have any questions leave them in the comment section.
And if you'd like to check out my other videos go to AskDoctorJo.com
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Be safe. Have fun. And I hope you feel better soon.