Vertigo Cause

The causes of vertigo, or dizziness, are many. We'll cover the most common 90% which all come from disorders of the inner ear - these are Benign Positional Vertigo, Vestibular Neuronitis, and Meniere's.

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To understand dizziness and vertigo look at how we balance in the first place. On either end of both sides of your ears there's two strange looking structures connected together. One looks a snail shell and is called the cochlea, and the other looks like a pretzel and is known as the semicircular canals. Both are filled with liquid and exist in what's known as the inner ear. The shell is used in hearing and the pretzel for balance.

When your head moves the liquid in the pretzel moves too just like a carpenters level instrument. This liquid then wafts little hairs inside the canals which tell the brain some motion is going on. Comparison of the signals from the two pretzels then makes your sensation of moving. If the signals don't add up then you feel sick in your stomach and off balance.

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