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Physiotherapy Treatment <br />

Aim to <br />

Reduce dizziness <br />

Improve gaze stability <br />

Improve postural stability <br />

Improve functional abilities <br />

By encouraging compensation, whereby symptoms <br />

progressively lessen, by a variety of mechanisms <br />

Spontaneous <br />

Adaptation (neural plasticity) – enhancing VOR and VSR so less input is <br />

required <br />

Substitution, prediction and other cognitive strategies (Herdman 1994). <br />

Compensation through Habituation

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