ABSTRACT
After a collision during a football match gave her a Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), the author learns about the latest research on dizziness and imbalance, and their related treatments from Dr. Seemungal, a neurologist specialising in brain conditions that affect balance and spatial orientation.
The author discovers the mechanisms behind dizziness and imbalance and why these effects of a concussion or post-concussion syndrome can be hidden even from the person experiencing them. She learns that her cognitive fatigue, deteriorating mental health and difficulties in returning to work will have been exacerbated by vestibular migraines.
The author finds hope in an explanation of the treatments of dizziness and imbalance which reveals how vestibular physiotherapy exercises will alleviate some of the symptoms of her acquired brain injury (ABI). She then describes the difficulties of fitting these treatments around her other Neuro-rehabilitation therapies and the side effects of the migraine prophylactic, amitriptyline.
