by Dr. Laura Wazen | Jun 29, 2015 | Balance
A former patient recently came back to see me due to an article he received from the Harvard Health Letter. I thought it was a good article, and wanted to share it with you. Maybe you, or your parent, or loved one, need to think about how using a rolling walker could...
by Dr. Laura Wazen | Jun 26, 2015 | BPPV
BPPV hit the international stage this last week at the 2015 US Open Golf Tournament in Chambers Bay when Australian golfer Jason Day suffered an attack of vertigo and fell to the ground. It’s not every day that people all over the world are talking about and...
by Dr. Laura Wazen | Jun 3, 2015 | Dizziness, Vertigo
Carpenter, Oil Painting by Kazimir Malevich, 1927 If you search the Internet, you will see many articles and videos about how to treat yourself at home. Some are good, some aren’t. There is really only one type of vertigo that you can fix at home, and...
by Dr. Laura Wazen | May 15, 2015 | Balance, Dizziness
When you live in one part of the country, and your elderly parents live in another, it can cause a lot of concern and worry -especially if your parent starts to have issues with falling. In the last blog, I wrote about fall alert buttons. This is a good...
by Dr. Laura Wazen | Apr 22, 2015 | Balance, Dizziness
Who can forget the commercial when fall alert buttons first came out,where the individual is lying on the floor and yells out “HELP! HELP! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” I do not want to make light of the situation, because being in such a vulnerable situation is...
