What We Treat

Dizziness and vertigo treatment in Reseda.

The room moves when you roll over, and the rest of the day never quite settles. It is treatable, and it starts with a cause-first evaluation that finds out which part of the system is misfiring.

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Sound Familiar?

Does this sound like you?

  • Rolling over in bed and watching the ceiling swing past
  • Sitting up in the morning, then holding the mattress until it stops
  • Tipping your head back at the sink and losing the room for ten seconds
  • Grocery aisles and phone screens leaving you queasy and thick-headed
  • Somebody asking if you are alright, because you grabbed the doorframe
  • Handing the car keys over for the drive to Northridge, because you no longer trust your head

Two or more? Keep reading.

Why It Happens

Dizziness is a symptom. Something specific is causing it.

Dizziness is not one condition. The most common cause is loose crystals in the inner ear, called BPPV: they shift when your head moves, and your balance system reads it as spinning. Other times it is an inner ear that stopped sending an even signal, a stiff and guarded neck, or eyes and inner ear that have fallen out of sync.

Those feel almost identical from the inside, and they are treated differently. A cause-first evaluation sorts them out: your head gets moved into specific positions while somebody watches your eyes for the answer. BPPV in particular often responds quickly to repositioning treatment, once it has been confirmed as BPPV. Waiting it out, or a generic set of exercises off the internet, leaves that on the table.

A licensed physical therapist performing a vestibular assessment in Reseda

The Honest Truth

Dizziness rarely gets bored and leaves.

If you keep waiting

  • You start moving your head less, and a stiff neck adds a second kind of dizziness
  • Your balance system leans harder on your eyes, so crowds, screens and dark rooms get worse
  • You give up driving, then stairs, then the things you used to do without thinking about them

If you start this week

  • Positional testing tells you which cause you actually have, at visit one
  • If it is BPPV, repositioning treatment can begin in that same visit
  • You get a plan with an endpoint, and the moves to settle it if it ever returns

Nobody regrets starting too early. Every week, someone in our clinic says they regret waiting.

How We Fix It

The same four phases. Built for dizziness and vertigo.

Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what Pain, Prime, Perform and Prevent look like for dizziness and vertigo.

Weeks 1–2

Pain

Stop the spinning.

Positional testing finds the cause, and if it is BPPV, repositioning treatment starts right there on the table.

Weeks 2–6

Prime

Retrain eyes and inner ear together.

Gaze and head-motion drills rebuild the signal your inner ear has been sending late.

Weeks 6–10

Perform

Take it back into the real world.

Busy aisles, quick turns and looking up get practiced on purpose, until your head stops flagging them.

Weeks 10+

Prevent

Know exactly what to do if it comes back.

You leave able to spot a flare early and settle it yourself: that’s the endpoint, not another appointment.

Excellent service provided by the facility and the professional staff that work there.

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Questions, Answered

What people ask before booking for dizziness and vertigo.

Usually not, and in California you can start with a licensed physical therapist without a referral. Most vertigo comes from the inner ear, and that is found by moving your head into specific positions and watching your eyes, not by a scan. Some warning signs do belong with a physician, and we screen for them at your evaluation. If we see one, we will tell you and help you get to the right place.

Some of them will, briefly, and that is how they work. Your balance system only recalibrates when you give it the motion it has been avoiding. A licensed physical therapist doses it so you feel it and then settle, instead of losing your whole afternoon. Nothing gets added faster than you can handle.

You get a plan with an endpoint, not an open tab of appointments. BPPV often responds quickly to repositioning treatment, so some plans are short and mostly about making sure it stays gone. Dizziness from an inner ear that needs retraining takes longer and moves through all four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform and Prevent. You will hear which one you are looking at, and what finishing looks like, at your evaluation.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back during business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon to Fri 8:00am to 5:00pm, Sat 8:00am to 12:00pm, Sun closed
  • (818) 341-3791 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • Saturday appointments, 8:00am to 12:00pm

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A real person calls you back, not a robot

So we know who to look for when you walk in.

A real person calls to confirm, usually the same day.

No spam, just the details you need for your visit.

A sentence is plenty. We’ll ask the rest in person.

Everything look good?

Visit Us

Care this good, this close.

Suite 200, on Sherman Way between Reseda and Northridge. Street and lot parking are both there, though the lot is a little tight for a large vehicle.

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