Definition:
One of the most common reasons why older adults visit their doctors is due to dizziness.
Your brain processes a variety of information from your nervous system, your eyes and your inner ears, keeping your sense of balance. But if the brain can't process signals from all of these locations, or if your sensory systems aren't functioning properly, or if the messages are contradictory, then you may experience dizziness and loss of balance.
Diagnosis:
In order to diagnose this disorder, doctors will likely ask you a number of questions. Your doctor will try to determine the cause and may ask if your dizziness is causing you to lose your balance, or is it causing the room to spin or produces a sensation of motion, or is it associated with a feeling of faintness or lightheadedness or is it accompanied by ringing or fullness in your ears (tinnitus) or trouble hearing.
Treatment:
The treatment of dizziness which doctors would base is on the cause and the symptoms of the disorder.
Symptoms and Signs:
The signs and symptoms of dizziness include a loss of balance, blurred vision after quick head movements, a sense that you or your surroundings are spinning or moving (vertigo), wooziness, faintness, nausea, fatigue, lightheadedness, unsteadiness, weakness and difficulty concentrating.
Causes:
The potential causes of dizziness include vertigo, which is the false sense of motion or spinning, feeling of faintness (presyncope), loss of balance (disequilibrium) and lightheadedness.
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