First, figure out the dominant direction of your rocking or swaying. See if you can identify what that direction is. If you can’t, just pick one side and go with that one. If after a few days, there is no improvement, then switch sides.
Once you have picked a side, you will set the optokinetic stimulation stripes to go in the opposite direction.
SO for example, if your sway is right side dominant, you will set the optokinetic stripes to move in the left direction.
Hold the screen in front of the eyes such that it fills your visual field as much as possible.
Each beat is going to represent a full cycle of head movement.
Without turning the head, you will first bring one ear down towards the shoulder. Then move the head back to neutral position. Then move the opposite ear towards the opposite shoulder, then back to neutral position.
Try to make the head movement as one continuous smooth motion without stopping at any point.
Each session should be performed for 3-5 minutes. Make sure to observe your physical reactions to the exercise and if you start to feel really ill, then stop and try again later.
This exercise needs to be performed up to 8 times a day.
If this exercise helps, you should start to feel improvement within 5 days. If you don’t have an improvement in the first five days, then either this exercise will not work for you OR, you picked the wrong side to begin with in which case, you would repeat this entire exercise again, but in the opposite direction.
Rate your symptom provocation (Numeric Rating Scale (NRS): 0 = none, 10 = severe):
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