Vertigo Treatment in Huntington Beach, CA

Vertigo means an illusion of spinning or motion. Lightheadedness is closer to feeling faint or unmoored, and it raises blood pressure, medication, and medical questions. A cervical pattern is dizziness that seems tied to neck pain or neck position, and it is a controversial category that still has to be screened rather than announced.

Functional Restoration Institute does not decide among those from a sentence you type. The history of timing, triggers, and associated symptoms is the start. Whiplash is one setting where several of these patterns can overlap after an acceleration injury, which is why the crash questions are asked directly.

Brief spinning when you roll in bed or look up is a different story from constant unsteadiness, and both differ from a single violent onset with other neurologic signs. You will be asked how long a spell lasts, what position starts it, and whether hearing, headache, or neck pain comes with it.

Headache and neck pain are examined when they are part of your story. They are not assumed to explain the dizziness. If the pattern sounds medical, cardiac, or neurologic, the visit stops being a musculoskeletal appointment and you are directed to the right setting.

Benign positional vertigo often causes brief spinning with position change. Clinicians trained in positional testing and canalith maneuvers treat that problem directly. This page does not invent a branded vestibular protocol, and it does not walk you through maneuvers to try alone.

If your history fits that positional pattern, Functional Restoration Institute will say so and coordinate with a clinician who performs the maneuver, or perform only what the examining doctor is trained and equipped to do that day. If the pattern does not fit, you will not be put through a maneuver just to have done something.

Sudden spinning with weakness, facial droop, slurred speech, double vision, trouble walking, or a sudden severe headache can be a stroke or another neurologic emergency. Call emergency services. Do not drive to a chiropractic office to see if the neck is stiff.

After emergencies are excluded, Dr. Sani Kohen, D.C. and Dr. Tara Kohen, D.C. can evaluate the neck and balance complaints that remain and send you to ENT, neurology, or vestibular therapy when that is the better next step. Chiropractic Sports Medicine does not claim to treat every cause of dizziness.

The visit is mostly history and screening. You describe timing and triggers. Neck motion, balance, and a basic neurologic screen are compared with that story. You should leave knowing whether this looked positional, medical, cervical, or still unclear.

Hands-on neck care is used only when the neck is a plausible contributor and emergencies are out of the picture. There is no branded dizziness package. If another specialty is the right next step, the plan says that in the first conversation rather than after a long course of the wrong care.

FRI is out of network. Huntington Beach patients commonly use HSA or FSA cards and submit a superbill. Ask your plan what it does with out-of-network chiropractic and lab work before you assume a number. Lab tests, when they are ordered, are a separate cost from the visit. We will tell you what we want to order and why before you are committed to it.

The evaluation is the product. You should leave knowing what we think is going on, what we are not worried about, and what you are supposed to do before the next visit. If the honest answer is that another clinician is the better next step, that is the plan. Drs. Sani and Tara Kohen both see patients here. Their training is described on the about page, and the building is shown on the office page.

Huntington Beach lives on the water in a different way than the harbor cities. Downtown and the pier, Bolsa Chica, Seacliff, and Huntington Harbour each produce a different week. Surfing, beach volleyball, and long walks on the sand load the feet, knees, and low back. A desk job inland, or a shift that ends with PCH traffic, loads the neck. We ask about that sequence because a shoulder that hurts after a dawn patrol is not examined the same way as a shoulder that hurts after a day at a laptop. The sand itself matters: barefoot time on an unstable surface changes what we look at in a gait exam.

The drive is the other half of the week. Getting from Main Street or from the harbour to south county is a real trip, about 22 miles, often 30 to 45 minutes on the 405 south to the 73. People who make it have usually decided they want an exam that lasts longer than a lunch break. If you are closer to a high-volume office on Beach Boulevard and you still drive inland, say so. It helps us understand what you already tried.