What is positional vertigo?
Positional vertigo is an inner ear problem. It causes brief but sometimes severe feelings of spinning. Some people feel that their head or body is spinning. Others feel the room is spinning. People often say they are dizzy, but dizzy is a very general term. Vertigo, on the other hand, is the very specific feeling of uncontrollable spinning. Symptoms of positional vertigo happen suddenly when you change the position of your head. Another name for this problem is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
