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Balance
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The sensation of normal balance is provided by the complex interaction between inputs from our eyes, inner ears and joints. The sensation of dizziness can arise when there is a mismatch between the various inputs.
Often regarded as the Cinderella sense, balance is anything but. Vertigo or dizziness can impact significantly on quality of life, ability to work and mental health.
At Cambridge Hearing & Balance, we have extensive experience in diagnosing, investigating and treating a wide range of balance disorders including:
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Ménière's Disease
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Vestibular Neuronitis (labyrinthitis)
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Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
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Migrainous Vertigo
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Benign Paroxysmal Vertigo of Childhood
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Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence
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Motion Provoked Vertigo
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Visually Evoked Vertigo
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Benign Intracranial Hypertension
Our comprehensive vestibular assessment process aids us in establishing the components of the balance system not functioning optimally and allows a tailored treatment plan to be designed.
We offer vestibular rehabilitation under the guidance of expert physiotherapists. For severe Ménière's Disease we offer intratympanic steroid or gentamicin injections, endolymphatic sac decompression with shunt, total osseous labyrinthectomy and vestibular nerve section. Posterior semicircular canal obliteration is available for intractable BPPV or superior semicircular canal obliteration / resurfacing for the management of superior canal dehiscence.