Vestibular Rehabilitation Service in Cardiff

Who needs to have this treatment?

Dizziness may be a symptom of certain medical conditions that also affect your sense of balance.

Vestibular rehabilitation therapy may help people with conditions including:

• Vertigo.
• Ménière’s disease.
• Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).
• Labyrinthitis.
• Vestibular neuritis.
• Migraine headache.
• Stroke.
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI).
• Falling risk.

What are the advantages of vestibular rehabilitation therapy?

Studies show vestibular rehabilitation therapy helps:

• Reduce your risk of falling.
• Improve your balance.
• Reduce your dizziness symptoms.
• Improve your ability to stabilize your vision.
• Increase your body strength.

Meet our Specialist Physiotherapist;

Dr Allison Cooper
Specialist Vestibular and Neuro Physiotherapist

Allison graduated in Teesside in 1982 and worked in the NHS in Middlesbrough and then Newport for 27 years eventually specialising in neurorehabilitation and vestibular rehabilitation. She completed a MSc in Interprofessional Health Studies in 1996 and then her PhD in 2006 with research into gait patterns following stroke and implications for neurorehabilitation. She took up a stroke research post based in Swansea University in 2006 where she continued her own stroke rehabilitation research as well as promoting research in Wales across the stroke pathway. She returned to clinical practice in 2018.

Allison has a special interest in peripheral vestibular disorders and initiated, designed and implemented a joint ENT, Audiology and Physiotherapy clinic for the assessment, diagnosis and management of the patient with dizziness and worked as an extended-scope practitioner in ENT in the NHS. She has continued to specialise in vestibular rehabilitation in private practise managing patients with various vestibular conditions such as BPPV, vestibular decompensation and bilateral vestibular hypofunction.

Allison has expertise in neurological gait and balance rehabilitation particularly following stroke and traumatic brain injury. She has a special interest in the use of video gait analysis and the use of body worn sensor technologies to inform treatment planning and enhance outcomes for patients.

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