Top Gaze Stability Exercises from a Vestibular Therapist {Full Program}

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

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[@kyriakoskaplanis5227]

Thanks I will be watching tomorrow

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

Welcome!

[@smca7271]

Simple excercises, but they work...thanks for your continued sharing.

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

Your welcome! !

[@jordanlaneparks]

I am so grateful for you!!!

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

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[@lasinmt106]

Fascinating !!!! I just discovered these dizzy stability exercises and find them fascinating. I've had menieres since 1980. A long time. And annoying at times for sure. I also now have a macular fold/wrinkle people refer to it slightly differently but it's the same thing. One eye distorts my vision and I'm no longer riding my bike and all kinds of odd vision related things occur. I'll jump with the feeling something came flying at me like a bird or just a shadow. I can look out at a pin stripe on a van and it's moving. That's caused by the distortion of straight lines and edges so your eyes are not still and if they move up and down looking at the stripe the distortion moves up and down causing the effect of movement when it's not happening. I'm often sitting at the computer and suddenly there are two complete monitors or images before me. Sometimes it appears the monitor is actually off to my right when it's right in front of me. When this happens I call it time to quit and turn off the computer. Or close the book when two pages slide together in my vision. I always know which eye is seeing what page because the bad eye sees things much bigger than the normal eye. Also both eyes suffer from on again off again double vision too and I take medicine drops for that which help much of the time but not always. I wish I could get people to see what I see sometimes to get their attention to just how annoying this can be. I do some crafts and sew.Threading the needle is a joke some days. Readers my help or may not. My vision is always in flux so to speak. Some days I get up and everything just refuses to focus well or my eye's work together right. I'm off balanced for the day it seems. I've had some balance issues popping up that I never used to experience when my menieres is not active and that's scary on it's own. I will catch your url so I can return to watch these videos at a better time. I look forward to trying some of these exercises out. I also found it fascinating about the depth of perception glasses the one lady was given to improve her balance. I am under the care of a special eye surgeon but so far he feels the images are showing less progression of the condition where for about a year and half it had been in a free fall decline following cataract surgery in that eye. I had put it off for a year due to concerns it might get worse and I was managing pretty well. I was told 5-8% of those with this condition can get worse following cataract surgery. And sure enough I fell into that category. No one can say for sure it was the surgery but oh yeah it happened right away. My specialist I had been seeing for over 5 years with this condition passed me off to the surgeon who tells me I can have surgery but he's inclined to not rush into it yet. But I feel he's not listening to my actual complaints about the vision getting worse and my eyes are tired a lot from fighting one another for dominance. My bad eye was my dominate eye for my entire life then the right eye started taking over and at times the left eye feels like it's a lazy eye not seeing even when open other times it's doing battle and I preferred when they were not fighting with one another so much. I often close my left eye to focus on something better but if my eyes are just plain tired I still have problems seeing. Readers do not always help and i can no longer use bifocals because it feels one eye needs a different setting or one eye is not looking through the bifocal lens or is acting like a cross eye seeing out a different spot on the lens. I am frustrated to say the least. I had excellent vision until my mid to late 40's when the double vision started. For years no one Identified what might be the cause. More than 20 years went buy then a specialist discovered the macular wrinkle and said the other eye was dry eyes and maybe a cataract again no one identified a cataract 20 years earlier and I was seeing neuro eye doctors and specialists too. I look forward to explore what you present along this balance and vision spectrum or relationship. Thank you for doing these posts.

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

Wow! I am so sorry for what you are going through. I have a playlist on specific eye exercises that could be helpful. I’m imagining you’ve seen a Neuro ophthalmologist that gave you all options? And yes, Jayes stability exercises can be helpful for the inner ear conditions however, definitely more challenging if your eyes cannot focus and see a single Target in the beginning. Sounds like you’re taking appropriate modifications. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with or brainstorm!

[@kyriakoskaplanis5227]

Hopefully to work with my visual vertigo and motion sickness

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

This is one component! Make sure to use the visual vertigo videos and the balance and grounding videos. 😄 if you don’t understand the grounding and balance in detail, just ask questions ☺️

[@kyriakoskaplanis5227]

Yes can you please explain grounding and balance? You have videos for those too

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

Just did a video for you! here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipm0laKipJWsjck Let me know if that helps, and I linked an exercise video

[@Ravicarromgaming-iv4cv]

Thanks from india ....you are my god ...

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

@@Ravicarromgaming-iv4cv glad it’s helpful for you!

[@kyriakoskaplanis5227]

Hi Amy Do you have any videos on TMJ tempomandibular joint syndrome and also on migraines.? Anyway I will watch tomorrow your video and hopefully will help with my visual vertigo

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

I don’t have any on tMJ. Migraine wise; what exactly are you looking for? What specific questions ? ☺️ I have a ebook all about migraines that is quite extensive on My payhip store

[@kyriakoskaplanis5227]

Ok thanks

[@kyriakoskaplanis5227]

Hi Amy This video will be good for visual vertigo too? I will watch it anyway I noticed when I feel dizzy I have also like a headache between the eyebrows

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

When it comes to treating visual vertigo, I use a combination of these exercises in the premiere video, optkinetic training with grounding, and for the headache between your eyes, try some chin to stretch out the Suboccipitals muscles at the base of the skull

[@DiamondForevah]

Love your videos! I have pppd but more than dizziness I get so tired when I move my body or when I’m exposed to visual stimuli.. even doing these exercises makes me so tired I have to take a nap.. is it normal? Do you have suggestion?

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

Hi! I would try to space out exercises. The most important thing is that you always can get back to your baseline (fatigue, dizzy, whatever) within 10 minutes of doing one exercise, then you can add the next one. I know it takes forever but you have to be able it get back to baseline 😊

[@DiamondForevah]

@@treatdizzinessathome2023 thank you very much! I’ll try that! I get the same even when I go take a walk but if I lie down like 20-30 minutes it goes away usually leaving me tired but not exhausted

[@chrisadamik1567]

Just a quick question If after the exercises your more dizzy for a couple of hours is that normal. I have the inner ear virus. 8 weeks currently

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

No if you’re having dizziness for hours, I would suggest breaking up the exercises doing one at a time. Wait for you to return back to your baseline dizziness and then add the next exercise and repeat that until you could do everything at once. But it doesn’t benefit you to just push through, and there’s no harm at all and chopping the exercise program up to make it more tolerable. I have a full gaze stability playlist. That includes some videos with troubleshooting your exercises that give more detail. ☺️

[@CricketNewJersey]

Where can I obtain a letter chart?

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

@@CricketNewJersey Get your FREEE Gaze Stability Exercise Checklist HERE! customcarerehab.com/gaze-stability-checklist-download

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

@@CricketNewJersey or all of my tools in my full vestibular recovery program here stan.store/TreatDizzinessathome

[@CricketNewJersey]

@@treatdizzinessathome2023 thanks so much

[@piglet5287]

I've been doing exercises almost identical to these for several months and have to say, they've had no effect apart from making my eyes itch! But my problem is, I don't have a firm diagnosis for my oscillopsia and imbalance. The eye hospital think it's a "vestibular thing of some kind" but i have to wait until December 2024 to see a specialist (the problems began in October 2023). That tells you something about the state of the NHS in Britain. Meantime I'll try all the exercises, without much belief in them. How about linking to some evidence of their efficacy in the description?

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

Yes, if your problem has been diagnosed as a vestibular hypofunction or weakness through testing or through a VnG these exercises will be effective. However, you have to progress these exercises, I have free, downloadable, gaze stability exercise progression list in the pin comments of this video. But if you don’t progress the exercises, you may not see any improvement and your symptoms. Also, there is a multitude of evidence for gaze stability exercises being the hallmark treatment for vestibular hypofunction here is the latest review, which I can also put in the description, but you do in fact, need to have vestibular involvement for these exercises to be helpful. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34864777/ Let me know if I can help in any other way, as always I do offer free 15 minute discovery calls to see if there’s any other guidance I can provide.

[@ThePeacemaker123]

​@@treatdizzinessathome2023 but how can you progress, if the image gets not more stable?

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

@@ThePeacemaker123 ah! Okay that helps me understand understand. I thought you were meaning no change in just symptoms. You can slow down the head movement and see if it gets more stable and just work at the speed-respecting what your body can do. Or these exercises may not be appropriate; could be quite a few things that need looked at to get a proper diagnosis. I might suggest in-person therapy if you have access to that to see if they can help customized a program for you based on your whole history. Have you already done in person? have they done a VNG? That’s full good info 🙂

[@ThePeacemaker123]

@@treatdizzinessathome2023 it is vestibular neuritis from Ramsay-hunt-syndrom. So basically a hypofunction on one side. To what degree, I do not know. Are there any other ways to help the VOR to improve? It is my brother, who is affected from this, not me, and he did vestibular therapy with a trained professional, and he continues the exercises at home. Exercises are the typical VOR exercises. Any advise is highly welcome. Many thanks

[@piglet5287]

​@@treatdizzinessathome2023I have "progressed" another set of exercises which are pretty similar to yours. But one problem I have is that I can do the exercises easily at any speed of head turning without dizziness or blurring. But what I do (always) get is a jump in the target and my visual field whenever I'm turning my head or body from right to left. But not left to right! So presumably something is lagging behind on the right to left movement. I have no control over this jumping and in addition the exercises have not lessened my oscillopsia when walking outside, for example. Hence my scepticism re Gaze Stability exercises - it's nothing personal. In addition, on my first visit to the eye hospital in Coventry UK, I asked a doctor about the exercises and he said " there's no reason to do those". Whether that advice related to what he assumed was my condition, or was a generalisation, I'm not certain. Basically I need to get a proper diagnosis. The hospital I was treated in in 2023 was noncommittal about a central or peripheral cause so it might not even be vestibular.

[@Temirah1]

Are these safe if you have neck degeneration?

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

@@Temirah1 they can be irritating to the neck so you do have to be careful. I would try one exercise at a time for 30 seconds and then slowly build up to 60 seconds, after a couple days at a second exercise, etc., until you figure out what your neck can tolerate. Is that helpful?

[@Temirah1]

@@treatdizzinessathome2023 yes, thank you!

[@bhavandeepmann5256]

Hi, with or without glasses?

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

The image needs to be clear The image needs to be clear when you start the exercise so if you need glasses to see clearly, please do that ☺️

[@fatihozdemir2878]

Osilopsi için yuruken ve hareket halinde iken egzersizler var mı ? Ben sadece sandelyede yapıyorum ama yuruyerek de nasıl yapabilirim ? Yardımcı olursanız çok mutlu olurum.

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

This video should help kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3iqZqWso6mUaa8si=M9N6WcSOhfzpeLdw

[@fatihozdemir2878]

@@treatdizzinessathome2023 bu egzersiz ile beraber mi yapmamı önerirsiniz sadece birini mi yapayım?

[@fatihozdemir2878]

Bir günde kaç tekrar yapalım mesela sabah akşam gibi

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

Sorry I thought I mentioned in the video. 12-20 minutes total throughout the day is appropriate

[@fatihozdemir2878]

Ben alt yazı çeviri olarak okuyorum. Sizin dilinizi bilmiyorum maalesef düzgün çevirememiş olabilirim. kusura bakmayın

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

@@fatihozdemir2878 no worries!

[@ThePeacemaker123]

8 months after vestibular neuritis, doing these exercises daily, almost no improvement. Is this still normal? Would you say, one should procede with the exercises? Many thanks

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

How are you doing the exercise? Seated, standing, walking ??Have you downloaded the exercise progression checklist? You never see functional improvements in walking or moving until you can advances the exercises to walking and outside.

[@ThePeacemaker123]

Sitting, standing, walking. Also doing a lot of VR Gaming. But the speed of the head movement still remains the same, going faster would blurr the image.

[@piglet5287]

It's the same for me, see my longer comment on lack of results

[@CricketNewJersey]

While watching TV, I had a vertigo episode out of nowhere. That wouldn’t be crystals would it?

[@treatdizzinessathome2023]

@@CricketNewJersey no I wouldn’t suspect it would be. Things I would ask to help figure things out 1) how long did it last 2) did you have any other symptoms associated with it and 3) what you have been diagnosed with.