Clinical services · Specialty team
Vestibular physiotherapy is a specialised area of care for patients experiencing dizziness, vertigo and balance disturbances arising from the inner ear or central nervous system. Using detailed assessment techniques and evidence-based repositioning and rehabilitation exercises, our physiotherapists work to identify the underlying cause of symptoms and restore confidence in movement and balance, reducing the risk of falls and improving quality of life.
What you'll understand
You'll leave knowing why the room was spinning
Dizziness is frightening largely because it is unexplained. A great deal of the distress our vestibular patients arrive with resolves the moment someone shows them what is actually happening in the inner ear and why the movement provokes it.
- Which system is causing itInner ear, central, cervical or blood pressure — they need different treatment.
- Why certain movements set it offThe mechanism, demonstrated rather than described.
- What the repositioning manoeuvre doesAnd why it can work within a single session for BPPV.
- How to do your home exercisesHabituation exercises feel unpleasant by design — knowing that is what makes people persist.
- How to reduce falls riskPractical changes at home alongside the balance work.
- What would prompt reviewThe symptoms that mean something has changed and needs reassessment.
Our model of care
Settle. Build. Sustain.
The same three stages we use across the practice, applied to this service — all of them inside Equip.
Stage 1
Settle
Detailed assessment to identify the source, then repositioning or symptom management. For BPPV this stage is often very short.
Stage 2
Build
Graded habituation and balance retraining, progressed as your tolerance improves, with gaze stability and gait work.
Stage 3
Sustain
Confidence in movement restored, with a home programme and falls-prevention strategies you keep using.
Equip — what all three are for
Vestibular rehabilitation asks patients to deliberately provoke symptoms they have been avoiding. That only works if they understand exactly why they’re doing it.
Conditions we treat
What we treat
Conditions we treat
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Vestibular neuritis and labyrinthitis
- Ménière’s disease
- Vestibular migraine
- Bilateral vestibular hypofunction
- Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) and chronic dizziness
- Post-concussion dizziness and balance dysfunction
- Cervicogenic dizziness
- Post-acoustic neuroma surgery rehabilitation
- Falls risk and balance dysfunction, particularly in older adults
The team
Clinicians in vestibular physiotherapy
Julie Nguyen
Physiotherapist
B.Physiotherapy, Certified Mulligan Practitioner (CMP), Aquatic Therapy
Mulligan concept manual therapy and aquatic therapy.
Blacktown
Steven Huang
Physiotherapist · Director, The Clinical Research Institute
B.App.Sc. (Phty) Hons.
Musculoskeletal physiotherapy, hand therapy and vestibular rehabilitation.
BlacktownResearch
Where to find us
Available at these clinics
Book with our vestibular & balance team
Book online, or call and ask for this team.