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Show LIFE&STYLE @== MATT SMITH/Daily Herald is a balance therapist in Provo. The goggles he is wearing capture video imagesthathelp to identify problems with eyes that may be associated with balance Alan problemsanddizziness. steadyinginfluence Provoclinic treats dizziness problems headaches have decreased.I'm not throwing up any more.” Theother day, Leifson said, she saw something on thefloor, bent over and picked it up without taking her eyesoffofit. “My daughtersaid, ‘Oh, my gosh, mom,I don't think I've ever seen you do that.’” Cody Clark DAILY HERALD Astroke of good fortune Fifteen years ago, Marrion Leifson talked to an otorhinolaryngologist Dizziness canresult from a variety of conditions. (ear, nose and throat doctor) about her chronic dizziness. She was told christine Osborne, an audiologist atWasatch Audiol ogy in Provo,said concussions, strokes, vascular complications (problems with blood flow) and neck injuries the problem was an ailmentof the inner ear, but not something that canall cause dizziness. Nybo addedphysical inactivity, heart problems and could be treated. Visits to other doctors weresimilarly inconclusive. conflicting medications to thelist. Not everypatient can be helped by balance therapy. For example, Nybo “They'd give medifferent things,” Leifson said. Nothing helped. In 2004, the problem dramatically worsened.Leifson would experience dizziness and nausea while bending to empty the dishwasher, or when straightening sheets while making her bed. The dizziness, she said, “was affecting everything did.” The 68-year-old Orem resident went from walking three miles a day to hardly walking at all. Whenever she would bendto pick up things, she would lookat an object to see whereit was, then stooptoretrieveit while holding her head upandlooking straight ahead. After her dizziness became so severethatit caused multiple falls, Leifson visited a neurologist and was referred to Provo’s Horizon ice and Dizziness Center. “I said, ‘I will do anything it takes to get feeling better,’ ” Leifson recalled. As it turns out,it didn't take much. Leifson was suf- Efforts to stop child hullies appear to pay fering from a condition called Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, or BPPV. Thecondition, which is found most frequently in olderpatients,is caused by the shifting of calcium carbonatecrystals, called otoconia, that collect in the innerear. The shifting resultsin false signals that confuse the * brain, creating dizziness andlossof balance. Alan Nybo,the balance therapist who operates Horizon, said BPPV is treatable through simple head and neckexercises that reposition the otoconia. The problem can sometimes be cleared upin singlevisit, and ra in check by repeating special posture exercises daily. BPPV,said Nybo,“is probably the most common cause of chronic dizziness.” Followinga seriesofvisits to Nybo,Leifson said, everything is better. “I’m walking again,”she said. “My THE WASHINGTON POST To manyadults, teasing and taunting among chil. drenand tenagers is natural and inva arto up. But as a new schoolyear begins, experts behavior is anything but normal and should be taken sero by paren teachers and school See BULLIES, C6 aon yf e leaders to give the fer attention the publication of a study done in rural Germany that used 1 While EECOVEENE he ad he found he had trouble staying on his feet “The part that it affected was mycoordination,” THE WASHINGTON POST January W. 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