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CBT for Dizziness: When Chronic Symptoms Need Mind-Body Support
CBT for dizziness can support selected chronic dizziness, PPPD and anxiety-linked patterns. Learn when it helps, limits, red flags and care pathway.
8 min read
Intratympanic Steroids for Meniere Disease: When Are They Used?
Intratympanic steroids for Meniere disease guide by Dr. Porwal: indications, limits, hearing safety and escalation pathway.
5 min read
Meniere Low Salt Diet and Diuretics: What Patients Should Know
Meniere low salt diet and diuretics guide by Dr. Porwal: patient-safe expectations, monitoring, triggers and when medicines are considered.
5 min read
BPPV vs Meniere Disease: Key Differences for Patients
BPPV vs Meniere disease: compare positional vertigo, hearing symptoms, tinnitus, attack duration, tests, red flags and care pathway.
8 min read
Skew Deviation and the Test of Skew: A Central Vertigo Sign
Skew deviation is a vertical misalignment of the eyes and a central (brain-related) sign. Learn what the test of skew checks and why it…
4 min read
Upbeat Nystagmus: What This Vertical Pattern Can Mean
Upbeat nystagmus explained: what it is, common and central causes, stroke/Wernicke red flags that make it urgent, and how doctors assess it.
4 min read
Caloric Test Results: Unilateral Weakness, Directional Preponderance and vHIT
Understand unilateral weakness, directional preponderance, fixation suppression and why caloric and vHIT results may disagree without being contradictory.
5 min read
Dynamic Visual Acuity Test Vertigo: Why Vision Blurs While Walking
Dynamic visual acuity test for vertigo, oscillopsia, walking blur and vestibulo-ocular reflex evaluation in a vestibular workup.
4 min read
VEMP Test Vertigo: cVEMP, oVEMP and Inner-Ear Nerve Pathways
VEMP test guide for vertigo: when cVEMP or oVEMP helps, what happens during the test, safety limits, results and next steps.
5 min read
vHIT Test | Dr. Prateek Porwal ENT Guide
Video head impulse test guide by Dr. Porwal: VOR gain, catch-up saccades, vertigo diagnosis, limits and when it helps.
5 min read
Tilt Table Test Syncope: What It Shows and When It Helps
Tilt table test syncope guide by Dr. Porwal: what the test shows, when it helps fainting, and how it differs from VNG vertigo testing.
4 min read
Difference Between Syncope and Vertigo: Red Flags
Difference between syncope and vertigo explained: blackout vs spinning, presyncope clues, red flags and when ENT, emergency or cardiology care is needed.
8 min read