Articles of category "Vertigo (kids and teens)"

The writer of the following article acknowledges the importance of vertigo treatment. By the same token the writer feels strongly that more effort should be directed at discovering the cause of each case of vertigo or dizziness. The writer experienced one episode of dizziness while in Junior High. Later the writer developed a neurological condition. The cause was never determined.

Have you ever felt as if you were moving while standing or sitting still? Maybe you were racing down the stairs about to fall and right before your fall you felt as if you'd taken on the identity of the Bionic Man, slowly moving into a position when actually you were falling very quickly? This condition, called vertigo, is a sense of motion or spinning that leads to dizziness. How does it affect your brain and does vertigo cause damage?