You have had the scans. You have had the labs. Everything came back normal, and you still cannot roll over in bed without the room moving.
Dr. Nanos sits down with Dr. Kim Bell, PT, DPT, a vestibular physical therapist who has spent more than 20 years on one problem: the dizziness nobody else could solve. Her patients call her The Vertigo Detective, and they fly in from around the world.
Her very first vertigo patient had been dizzy for 20 years. She was in her mid-70s, she had broken almost every bone you can imagine from falling, and the only time she left her house was in an ambulance. Three sessions later the vertigo was gone. That patient looked her in the eye and said, do you understand, you gave me my life back.
They get into what a real vertigo evaluation includes, why a normal MRI does not rule out a brain cause, and the single mechanical fact underneath most missed diagnoses: in a lit room your own eyes suppress the sign a clinician needs to see, by as much as 66%. Which means the exam that finds the answer has to happen in the dark, with equipment most clinics do not own.
And they get into the part Dr. Nanos keeps coming back to. When every test comes back normal, patients hear a dismissal. It is not one. It means the dangerous causes are ruled out and the real one is somewhere nobody has looked yet.
This is The Kind Revolution — where we bridge science, compassion, and courage.
Hosted by Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH | Kind Health Group, Encinitas, CA
Guest: Dr. Kim Bell, PT, DPT | betterbalanceinlife.com
For education, not medical advice.
