Positional Dizziness
Symptoms triggered by rolling in bed, looking up, bending over, or changing head position may benefit from targeted vestibular assessment and treatment.
VESTIBULAR REHABILITATION
Targeted physical therapy for dizziness, vertigo, and balance problems.
Vestibular rehabilitation is designed to identify the movement and balance systems contributing to symptoms and create a focused plan to improve stability, confidence, and function.
Advanced vestibular experience at OnePoint
Our vestibular clinicians have experience treating dizziness, balance disorders, headaches, and vestibular conditions across a range of ages.
Kelvin Carter, PT, DPT, OCS
Hannah Jones, PT, DPT
Anne “Annie” True, PT, DPTCOMMON REASONS FOR CARE
When dizziness or balance changes start affecting daily life.
A careful evaluation helps determine which factors may be contributing and what type of rehabilitation is appropriate.
Unsteadiness & Falls
Rehabilitation can address balance, walking confidence, sensory integration, and movement strategies that affect stability.
Dizziness with Movement
Symptoms brought on by head movement, busy visual environments, or motion can be addressed with progressive, individualized exercises.
Headache-Related Dizziness
Some patients experience dizziness and balance changes alongside headache symptoms and may benefit from a combined orthopedic and vestibular approach.
Post-Concussion Symptoms
When appropriate, vestibular rehabilitation may be part of a broader recovery plan for dizziness, motion sensitivity, balance, and visual-motion symptoms after concussion.
Other Vestibular Conditions
Our clinicians also evaluate patients with other vestibular and neurological conditions affecting balance, gaze stability, and functional mobility.
WHAT AN EVALUATION MAY INCLUDE
Understand what is provoking symptoms and how your balance system is responding.
Vestibular assessment is tailored to the patient’s symptoms and may look at several systems that contribute to dizziness and balance.
Eye and head movement
Positional testing
Balance & walking
Motion sensitivity
Neck mobility when relevant
Functional movement
Symptom triggers
Confidence with daily activity
INDIVIDUALIZED CARE
The same symptom can have different causes.
Dizziness is not one diagnosis. Treatment depends on the pattern of symptoms and findings from the evaluation.
Some patients may need positional treatment, while others benefit from gaze-stability exercises, balance training, motion-habituation work, strengthening, or a combination of approaches.
TREATMENT
Progressive exposure, balance training, and movement retraining.
Vestibular rehabilitation often works by gradually challenging the systems involved in balance and motion while helping the brain adapt to movements or environments that provoke symptoms.
The plan is progressed based on symptom response, safety, function, and the activities the patient needs to return to.
Treatment may include
Canalith repositioning when appropriate, gaze-stability exercises, balance training, walking progression, motion-habituation exercises, strengthening, cervical treatment when relevant, and a home program tailored to symptom triggers.
VESTIBULAR CLINICIANS
Meet the therapists with vestibular training and experience.
Vestibular care is provided by clinicians with advanced training and experience treating dizziness and balance-related conditions.
Kelvin Carter, PT, DPT, OCS
Edgewood/Candler Park • Orthopedics • Vestibular
Kelvin has extensive experience treating vestibular disorders, headaches, and acute and chronic pain in addition to his orthopedic specialty training.
Hannah Jones, PT, DPT
Edgewood/Candler Park • Vestibular • Pediatrics • Pelvic Health
Hannah has advanced vestibular rehabilitation certification through Emory and Duke and treats vestibular patients alongside her pediatric and pelvic-health work.
Anne “Annie” True, PT, DPT
Edgewood/Candler Park • Vestibular • Pediatrics
Annie received certification in advanced vestibular rehabilitation and has experience across pediatric, neurological, musculoskeletal, and acute-care patient populations.
RETURN TO DAILY LIFE
The goal is not just fewer symptoms — it is better function.
Vestibular symptoms can make ordinary activities feel unpredictable. Rehabilitation is aimed at helping patients move more confidently through the environments and activities they need to manage every day.
Move with more confidence
Improve tolerance for getting in and out of bed, bending, turning, walking around the home, and other everyday movement.
Handle busy environments
Progress tolerance for stores, crowds, visual motion, uneven surfaces, and community mobility when these trigger symptoms.
Return to exercise & recreation
Build toward the physical and visual demands of fitness, recreation, work, or sport based on the patient’s goals.
LOCATION
Vestibular rehabilitation at Edgewood / Candler Park.
Our vestibular clinicians are based at Edgewood/Candler Park. If you are unsure which therapist is the best fit, our new-patient team can help route you appropriately.
Edgewood / Candler Park
1328 DeKalb Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
- Monday–Thursday: 7:00 AM–6:30 PM
- Friday: 7:00 AM–3:00 PM
- Parking is available in the front, side, or back of the building.
- Call 404-600-4627 and select option 3 to speak with this clinic.
FREQUENT QUESTIONS
Vestibular rehabilitation questions
What is vestibular rehabilitation?
Vestibular rehabilitation is a form of physical therapy focused on dizziness, vertigo, balance, gaze stability, motion sensitivity, and related functional problems.
Can physical therapy treat positional vertigo?
Some forms of positional vertigo can respond to specific repositioning techniques. Your therapist will determine whether that type of treatment is appropriate based on the evaluation.
Will the exercises make me dizzy?
Some vestibular exercises intentionally create a controlled level of symptoms so the nervous system can adapt. Your therapist will adjust the intensity and progression based on your response and safety.
Which OnePoint location offers vestibular rehabilitation?
Our vestibular clinicians are based at the Edgewood/Candler Park clinic at 1328 DeKalb Ave NE.
GET STARTED
Dealing with dizziness, vertigo, or balance problems?
Our new-patient team can help connect you with an appropriate vestibular clinician and discuss scheduling.
New Patient Appointments404-600-4627
Select option 1 for a new-patient appointment.
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