{"id":19534,"date":"2026-10-09T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/?p=19534"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:59:51","slug":"vestibular-neuritis-dizziness-nystagmus-loss-of-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/patientenblog\/neuritis-vestibularis-schwindel-nystagmus-gleichgewichtsverlust\/","title":{"rendered":"Vestibular neuritis: dizziness, nystagmus &amp; loss of balance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The suffix -itis always stands for inflammation in medicine \u2013 in this case, the vestibular nerve, i.e., your balance nerve, is inflamed and falls out acutely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What this <a href=\"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/dizziness-disorders\/vestibular-neuritis\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7427\">Nerve loss <\/a>triggers in the body:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udc49 Interrupted data conduction: The inner ear can no longer send information to the brain. The result: The brain completely loses the sense of balance \u2013 those affected immediately fall over when they try to sit down!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udc49 Link to the eyes: Your optic nerves are directly connected to the eye muscles to stabilize the vision during movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udc49 Muscular imbalance &amp; nystagmus: If one side is affected, there is an imbalance in the eye muscles. The eyes begin to move involuntarily and strike (nystagmus).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udc49 The rotating image: It is precisely this nystagmus that causes people affected to have the feeling that the entire environment rotates continuously in their eyes when they are open!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udc49 Would you like to understand the anatomy and the exact processes in the inner ear in detail? Take a look now to our detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/dizziness-disorders\/vestibular-neuritis\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/schwindelerkrankungen\/neuritis-vestibularis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patient information<\/a> or that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hVZMpMS9eUI\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hVZMpMS9eUI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Main video on YouTube<\/a> may apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udccd Are you looking for qualified therapists near you who specialize in dizziness? Use our <a href=\"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/for-patients\/dizziness-vestibular-therapist-search\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Therapist search<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Endung -itis steht in der Medizin immer f\u00fcr eine Entz\u00fcndung \u2013 in diesem Fall ist der Nervus vestibularis, also euer Gleichgewichtsnerv, entz\u00fcndet und f\u00e4llt akut aus! Was dieser Nervenausfall im K\u00f6rper ausl\u00f6st: \ud83d\udc49 Unterbrochene Datenleitung: Das Innenohr kann keine Informationen mehr an das Gehirn senden. Die Folge: Das Gehirn verliert v\u00f6llig das Gef\u00fchl f\u00fcr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":19535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"_jf_save_progress":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patientenblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19536,"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19534\/revisions\/19536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivrt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19534"}],"curies":[{"name":"WP","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}