Brandt-Daroff Exercises

Do NOT do this unless you have seen your doctor and he has made this suggestion

The Brandt-Daroff Exercises are a method of treating BPPV usually used when the office treatment fails. They succeed in 95% of cases but are more arduous. These exercises are preformed in three sets per day for two weeks. In each set, one performs the maneuver below five times.

1 rep= maneuver done to each side in turn

Suggested Schedule

Morning	5 reps	10 minutes
Noon	5 reps	10 minutes
Evening	5 reps	10 minutes

One starts upright, then one moves into the side-lying position, with the head angled upward about half way. An easy way to remember this is to imagine someone standing in front of you, and just keep looking at their head at all times. Stay in the side-lying position for 30 seconds, or until the dizziness subsides if this is longer, than go back to the sitting position stay there for 30 seconds, and then go to the opposite side in the same way.

If during a session, the exercise fails to produce symptoms, stop the exercises for that day. If no symptoms can be produced during the first session or the next, then stop the exercises entirely. In most persons, complete relief from symptoms is obtained by one week. For a virtual image of what the exercises are supposed to look like click here and you will be connected to a site produced by Northwestern University.

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