For people with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), dizziness often occurs when changing head position during everyday activities. The condition develops when tiny calcium crystals inside the inner ear become displaced and enter one of the semicircular canals involved in balance. As the head changes position, these crystals interfere with normal signals from the inner ear to the brain, creating the sensation that the room is spinning.
Standard treatment for BPPV focuses on canalith repositioning maneuvers, which are specific head and body movements designed to move displaced inner-ear crystals out of the affected canal and back to where they belong,…
