Mobility Exercises
When you’re suffering from vertigo, you want to do anything you can to feel better. That’s why mobility exercises can be so helpful—they increase blood flow to your ears and relieve pressure there.
In general, any kind of exercise will get your blood pumping, which is a good thing about vertigo. When you have vertigo, your blood vessels expand and contract at irregular rates as they attempt to resynchronize with the signals coming from your inner ear. Exercise helps this process by increasing blood flow, which speeds up the rate at which fresh blood flows into the area and carries away waste products. This helps keep the balance mechanisms in your inner ear working well enough that regular movement doesn’t make them fire off incorrect signals.
A few exercises specifically designed for people with vertigo can help even more. One of these is called an active-passive movement: start sitting up straight in a chair and hold your head still. Then, lean forward as far as you’re able without moving your head or upper body (passive), then use small movements of your head to bring yourself back upright (active).
