Condition
Dizziness
What you should know about dizziness
Dizziness can feel different from person to person. Some people feel light-headed or unsteady. Others experience vertigo, where it feels as if they or their surroundings are spinning. Dizziness may also make busy environments, walking, driving or quick head movements difficult to tolerate.
Your sense of balance depends on information from several systems, including your eyes, vestibular system, neck, muscles and joints. When the brain has difficulty processing or integrating this information, you may feel dizzy, disoriented or unstable.
At Amsterdam Brain Center, we assess which systems may be involved in your dizziness and which factors may be contributing to your symptoms.
How we approach dizziness
Persistent dizziness may be related to changes in how the nervous system processes and integrates information from the vestibular system, vision, the neck and the body.
At Amsterdam Brain Center, we start with a Functional Neurological Examination to assess which functions may be involved in your symptoms. If treatment is recommended, we create a personalised treatment plan based on your symptoms, examination findings and goals.
During the intensive treatment week, we use a combination of non-invasive therapies and exercises. The aim is to support balance, eye movement control, coordination and tolerance to movement, and to help you function better in daily life where possible.
Your road to recovery
One week of intensive treatment
Step 1
The Functional Neurological Examination (FNE)
You share your symptoms with us, prompting us to ask relevant questions and conduct a thorough Neurological Examination. This process allows us to assess whether our treatment is well-suited to your needs.
Step 2
Advanced Machine Testing (quantification)
Based on Step 1, we determine what tests are necessary to quantify the underlying cause of the symptoms. To do this, we use a range of computer-controlled equipment.
Step 3
Rehabilitation week (in 5 days)
We address the problems. Through an individual program specifically tailored to your problems, we bring back function during an intensive week of treatment.
Step 4
Aftercare
After the 5-day intensive treatment week, we will give you homework assignments. These are exercises that further promote your recovery. We are happy to keep an eye on these developments with you.
What do we expect from you during treatment for dizziness?
Our treatment for dizziness is designed as an intensive one-week programme. This means that the treatment is not spread out over several separate sessions, but offered during a full week with a range of different therapies and exercises.
Within this intensive programme, we use assessments, training and targeted therapies to support the functions involved in your symptoms and help improve the way your nervous system processes balance, movement and sensory information.
Because the structure and intensity of the programme are important parts of our approach, we do not offer this treatment in separate phases. If you want to work seriously and sustainably on your recovery, we ask you to reserve a full week for treatment.
We will explain beforehand what this involves, so you know what to expect.
We understand that you may still have questions after reading the information on our website.
For further details, kindly contact our clinic. You will be connected with one of our dedicated assistants.