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    What is the difference between vertigo and dizziness?

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  • Dr Luke Bonavia

    Neurologist (Brain Specialist)

    Dr Luke Bonavia is a specialist neurologist providing comprehensive assessment and management across general neurology and stroke care. He completed his medical degree at the … View Profile

    Dizziness is a generic term for any experience of instability in the head or body. Vertigo is a type of dizziness experience that results in an illusion of motion. This motion can either be rotational, such as “spinning” or translational, akin to a feeling of moving side to side or back and forth, but not limited to these experiences.

    Describing what kind of dizziness can be quite difficult to explain at times, and your neurologist try to get a clearer picture by asking directed questions. Some causes of dizziness can lead to brief loss of consciousness.

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