What are some common words used to describe dizziness?
• spacey • floating • spinning (vertigo) • lightheaded • head pressure • swimmy • wooziness • heavy-headed • logy • tilting • disoriented Does the word “vertigo” mean something special? Vertigo has a very specific meaning to a health care practitioner, and should only be used to describe the sensation that you are spinning or that the world is spinning. What is the difference in prognosis among patients who have an inner ear problem, a brain problem, or a problem of both the inner ear and the brain? Usually, when a person has a problem limited to the inner ear, they are considered to have a very good prognosis. Unfortunately not all people fully recover from an inner ear problem, because there has been damage to the ear structures. Dizziness caused by a brain problem usually requires more physical therapy visits and is more difficult to recover from. People who have both inner ear and brain damage can improve, but the recovery is often less than those who have problems in just one syst
