Services for Dizziness and Balance Issues

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Overview

Midwest Dizziness and Balance Institute is an all-inclusive setting designed to restore balance and quality back to your life. We offer innovative solutions to your dizziness and vertigo problems. Our patients are often referred here by primary care doctors, cardiologists, neurologists, and otolaryngologists (ENT). We welcome patients as well as self-referrals.

We believe it’s possible to eliminate the many frustrations that come with seeing doctor after doctor with no real relief. Here at Midwest Dizziness and Balance Institute, we take an integrated approach to your care, providing diagnosis and treatment to eliminate the time-consuming challenges that come from traveling from specialist to specialist, or to different therapies. Together, we’ll create an experience that provides solution and treatment options that are realistic and feasible. Our unwavering commitment to our patients sets us apart in the medical community.

Our practice is built on the distinction of trust. We hope you’ll feel empowered and confident in your care at every step. We also believe in patient education. Our support and clinical staff are happy to provide care, resources and consultation that lead you to renewed emotional and physical well-being.

Diagnostics and Treatment Methods

The Institute is fully-equipped to test thoroughly, utilizing the most comprehensive diagnostic technology available: including Computerized Dynamic Posturography, 2 Neuro-Kinetics Rotational Chairs, Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials, Electrocochleography, Videonystagmography and other audiologic tests to accurately diagnose and subsequently treat balance disorders caused by all 10 vestibular inputs. Our combination of diagnostic and treatment resources under one roof makes Midwest Dizziness and Balance Institute one of the country’s most inclusive balance facilities.

Each audiologist regularly participates in training updates, so you can be confident they’re offering the most sophisticated diagnostic technology available today. If you have previously completed a neurological evaluation, ENG (electronystagmography), or VNG (videonystagmography) testing with other practitioners, yet continue to experience dizziness, there is hope. Our solutions are simply a visit, click, or phone call away.

We Help Patients Safely and Successfully Return to Their Daily Activities and live DIZZY FREE

Our Institute’s proprietary approach, known as Advanced Vestibular Treatment, or AVT^TM, is a proven, audiologist-directed personalized plan that is frequently more effective in resolving symptoms caused by vestibular disorders than more traditional physical therapy option and/or medications. Select AVT programs may also involve a customized home-based exercise option (your treating Audiologist will determine if that’s the right option for you).

Advanced Vestibular Treatmant (AVT) is a Trademark of Newport Mesa Audiology/Dizziland Inc.

Dizziness, Vertigo, and Balance Disorders

Reduce or eliminate challenges so you can live dizzy-free. As one of the country’s most inclusive dizziness and balance facilities, our specialties include:

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The Distinction as one of 2 facilities of its kind to offer Comprehensive Diagnostic and Therapeutic Resources, with a specialty in Difficult-to-Diagnose Cases

Comprehensive Balance Testing of All 6 Vestibular Canals and All 10 End Organs of the Inner Ear Vestibular System

Personalized Results Evaluation

Customized Dizziness and Balance Treatment Programs
A success rate in upwards of 90%

Defining Your Symptoms

Vertigo and Dizziness

Dizziness is a Lightheaded, Floating, or a Rocking Sensation or the sensation of being heavily weighted or pulled in one direction

Vertigo is a Spinning or Whirling Sensation; A Feeling that you the person or world Is moving when it is not

Symptoms can be present while sitting still and in specific positions or with movement

Balance and Spatial Orientation

Balance

Imbalance, stumbling, and difficulty walking straight or when turning

Clumsiness or difficulty with coordination

Difficulty maintaining straight posture

The tendency to look downward

The tendency to touch or hold onto something when standing, or to touch or hold the head while seated

Sensitivity to changes in walking surfaces or footwear

Difficulty walking in the dark

Vision Issues

Eyeball

Trouble focusing or tracking objects with the eyes; Objects or words on a page seem to jump, bounce, float, blur, or may appear doubled

Discomfort in busy visual environments such as Traffic, Crowds, Stores, and Patterns

Sensitivity to light, glare, and moving or flickering lights; fluorescent lights, computer/phone scrolling and monitors, and/or televisions

The tendency to focus on nearby objects; Increased discomfort when focusing at a distance

Increased night blindness

Poor depth perception

Hearing Changes

Ear

Hearing Loss, Distorted or Fluctuating Hearing

Tinnitus (Ringing, Roaring, Buzzing, Whooshing, or Other Noises in the Ear)

Sensitivity to loud sounds

Sudden loud sounds may increase symptoms of vertigo, dizziness, and imbalance

Cognitive or Psychological

Brain

Difficulty concentrating and paying attention; Easily distracted

Forgetfulness and Short-Term Memory lapses

Mental and/or Physical Fatigue out of proportion to the activity

Loss of Self-Reliance, Self-Confidence, and Self-Esteem

Anxiety, Panic, and Social Isolation

Depression