Personalized care for dizziness, vertigo, balance concerns, and the confidence to move through life safely.
Catalyst physical therapists use Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT) to decrease the impact a dysfunctional vestibular system can have on balance, fall risk, and quality of life.
Dizziness can feel different for everyone: light-headedness, feeling off-balance, feeling as though you just stepped off a boat, or the sensation that you or the room is spinning. The way you describe your symptoms helps an experienced clinician identify the right next step.
At Catalyst, your vestibular evaluation is performed by a physical therapist with time for positional testing, an oculomotor exam, gait analysis, and a conversation about your history and goals. You leave with a working diagnosis, a plan of care, and a manageable home program.
Our physical therapists have received extensive training to address the unique needs of people battling injury or dysfunction affecting the vestibular organs.
Vestibular dysfunction can affect how you see, walk, turn your head, and feel in everyday environments.
Lightheadedness, positional or persistent vertigo, and spinning sensations that may be triggered by changing positions or moving your head.
Impaired postural control, balance, or coordination that makes walking, turning, navigating busy spaces, or daily activity feel less secure.
Headaches, nausea, vomiting, or oscillopsia—severe visual blurring when moving your head side to side.
Vestibular and balance disorders are often under-treated because a careful diagnosis takes time. Catalyst clinicians approach each case as its own puzzle, whether you are managing BPPV, post-concussion symptoms, persistent dizziness, vertigo, or fall-prevention concerns as you age.
For BPPV, a vestibular physical therapist can evaluate and treat the condition with appropriate canal repositioning maneuvers. Catalyst notes that many BPPV cases resolve in one to three visits with proper repositioning. Post-concussion balance issues may take longer and can respond to graded vestibular and visual rehabilitation with practical, bite-sized progressions for home.
Each visit builds on the last with skilled therapy, reassessment, and updates to your program—not a flood of exercises all at once.
We begin with your history, goals, and symptoms, followed by relevant positional, oculomotor, movement, strength, and gait assessment.
Your therapist creates a plan based on your findings, using targeted treatment and graded exercise that progresses safely as your system adapts.
Our goal is to help you move with greater confidence at home, at work, in the community, and in the activities that matter to you.
You do not need to navigate dizziness, vertigo, or balance concerns alone. Connect with Catalyst to discuss whether vestibular rehabilitation is the right next step for you.
No referral is required to begin physical therapy in California for up to 45 days or 12 visits, whichever comes first.