Category: Disability Terms
Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD)
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Simply put
According to the National Library of Medicine: Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD)...is a chronic vestibular disorder that manifests with waxing and waning symptoms of dizziness, unsteadiness, or nonspinning vertigo that last for 3 months or more and are exacerbated by upright posture, active or passive motion of self, and exposure to environments with complex or moving visual stimuli.
Why it matters
In 1986 German scientists Thomas Brandt and Marianne Dieterich explained Phobic Postural Vertigo (PPV) as "a condition of postural non-vertiginous dizziness with recurrent dizzy episodes." The concept of PPV was later researched and coined as Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness, or PPPD.
Best practices
Postural Perceptual Dizziness, PPPD.
