Your patients with neck pain AND dizziness have higher disability

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When addressing disability and functional limitations for someone you’re suspecting to have Cervicogenic Dizziness, it is normal practice to use a combination of Neck Disability Index (NDI), Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) to examine functional limitations for general neck pain and dizziness.  You will find this to be a frequent combo in the medical and rehabilitation literature for diagnosis of Cervicogenic Dizziness, but also for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).

A multimodal approach of manual therapy, therapeutic exercise, vestibular and sensorimotor training within a biopsychosocial framework works best for Cervicogenic Dizziness.

The combined effect of these two pathologies, both neck pain and dizziness, has the greatest impact it has on health-related quality of life.  In principle, isn’t this what we do for a living?  Improve quality of life?  Allowing our patients to have the best health he/she could imagine?

You can learn more about the screening and treatment process of Cervicogenic Dizzinesss through Integrative Clinical Concepts, where the authors (husband–a manual therapist a wife—a vestibular specialist), teach a very unique course combining both the theory and practice of vestibular and manual principles in their 2-day course.  Pertinent to this blog post, the 2nd day includes the “Physio Blend”, a multi-faceted physiotherapist approach to the management of Cervicogenic Dizziness, which includes treatments of the articular and non-articular system of manual therapy and the most updated sensorimotor exercise regimen.

If you would like to host a course for your staff (either a vestibular, neuro, sports or ortho clinic), please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected] for more information.

Authors

Harrison N. Vaughan, PT, DPT, OCS, Dip. Osteopracic, FAAOMPT    

Instructor: Cervicogenic Dizziness for Integrative Clinical Concepts

Danielle N. Vaughan, PT, DPT, Vestibular Specialist  

Instructor: Cervicogenic Dizziness for Integrative Clinical Concepts

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