by Colorado Ear Care | May 30, 2023 | Balance/Dizziness
What is vertigo? While dizziness and vertigo are often used interchangeably, they are actually very different sensations to the person experiencing them. Whereas dizziness is used to describe a general loss of balance or lightheadedness, vertigo usually presents...
by Colorado Ear Care | Dec 9, 2022 | Balance/Dizziness, Miscellaneous
What are ear crystals? Well, despite their fanciful name, ear crystals are a natural occurrence in our bodies! Ear crystals, sometimes also referred to as ear stones or otoconia, play a major role in our body’s system of balance. These crystals are composed of...
by Colorado Ear Care | Jun 16, 2022 | Balance/Dizziness
What do you really know about vertigo? When you hear the word vertigo, what do you think of? Is it the classic Alfred Hitchcock film? A mid-aughts U2 song? Or are you one of the near-100 million Americans who seek medical care for the condition that includes feelings...
by Colorado Ear Care | Apr 22, 2022 | Balance/Dizziness
You deserve to know the truth about vestibular testing In our line of work, we’ve learned that many patients who either have or fear they have vestibular issues (a loss of balance, dizziness, or other vertigo-like symptoms) because they’ve heard that vestibular tests...
by Colorado Ear Care | Oct 18, 2021 | Balance/Dizziness
Meniere’s disease and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (also referred to as BPPV) are both causes of dizziness, discomfort, and massive disruptions in people’s lives. Though they commonly get conflated with one another, they are distinctly different conditions,...
