Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo - Classification

Classification

Vertigo, a distinct process sometimes confused with dizziness, accounts for about 6 million clinic visits in the U.S. every year, and 17–42% of these patients eventually are diagnosed with BPPV. Other causes of vertigo include:

• Motion sickness/Motion Intolerance: a disjunction between visual stimulation, vestibular stimulation, and/or proprioception
• Visual exposure to nearby moving objects (examples of optokinetic stimuli: passing cars, falling snow)
• Other diseases: (labyrinthitis, Ménière's disease, migraine. etc.)