Symptoms

Dizziness and balance disorders can affect anyone — young or old — but the resulting impairments vary considerably. Symptoms of a dizziness or balance disorder may include:

• A constant sense of dizziness, wooziness, or unstableness that is intensified by performing everyday activities such as walking, rolling over in bed, or glancing around a room.
• Inability to walk independent of assistance from people or objects.
• Continual falls or stumbles while performing normal, everyday activities

Services

The Wyoming Center for Dizziness & Balance offers the most advanced technology in the diagnosis and treatment of our patients.

• ECochG — Indicates Menieres Disease.
• Videonystagmography (VNG) — Tests the functioning of the superior vestibular nerve.
• Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMP) — Helps identify the specific site of injury to the inner ear and/or balance nerve.
• Auditory Brainstem Evoked Response (ABR) — Tests both the ear and the brain. Delays suggest a lesion of the brainstem or the vestibulocochlear nerve between the ear and brainstem. Abnormal tests may indicate multiple sclerosis, brainstem stroke, brainstem degeneration disorder, or acoustic neuroma.
• Fistula Test — Tests for an abnormal opening in a fluid-filled ear.
• The SMART EquiTest® — Assesses patients’ balance control and stability under conditions reflecting the
  challenges of daily life. Once a diagnosis has been made, the SMART EquiTest® is used to train patients to acquire voluntary control over their balance and dizziness issues.

Our Philosophy

At the Wyoming Center for Dizziness & Balance, our multidisciplinary team approach to treatment offers patients the freedom to return to their lives.

Together, our team implements an effective treatment plan to help patients regain mobility and the quality of life they deserve. Treatment reduces, and often eliminates, the symptoms of dizziness and balance disorders, allowing patients to feel more comfortable with daily activities. Treatments also allow for patient education to help reduce the chance of injury or relapse, giving patients added confidence and comfort to perform everyday activities on their own.

Our Team

Success at the Wyoming Center for Dizziness & Balance comes from our team’s specialized training, resulting in successful assessment and treatment of dizziness and balance disorders.

• Lori Ridgeway, OTR/L — Occupational therapist with over 5 years experience treating vestibular and balance disorder patients.
• Kathy Blair, PT, Certified McKenzie and Vestibular Therapist — Physical therapist with over 14 years experience treating vestibular and balance disorder, spinal pain, and orthopedic patients; Certified in vestibular therapy.

We have offices in Casper at 1347 S Wisconsin, and Cheyenne at 5320 Education Dr. We also conduct outreach clinics in Glenrock and Cheyenne. Call (866) 472-3602 for more information.

The Wyoming Center for Dizziness & Balance is part of Mountain West Therapy Associates — a multidisciplinary team of therapists offering patients the best and most advanced treatments available.